Posted in Arezzo, Florence, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Meat, Montalcino, Montepulciano, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipes, Tuscan, bolognese, carrots, celery, chicken stock, duck, flour, game, guanciale, hearty, herbs, indulgent meal, mushroom, mushrooms, noodles, philosophy, porcini, sauce, tomato, tradition, travel, tuscany, wine on Jan 23rd, 2010
It might be generational, or, perhaps, philosophical, but there are, on the one hand, those who enjoy and appreciate handmade things, and the art and craft they require to make, and, on the other, those who prefer their things machine-made, reliable, and standard. The ‘things’ here could be quite literally anything. My father, who, to [...]
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Posted in Alba, French, Italian, Italy, Pasta, Recipe, butter, cream, easy, indulgent meal, nuts, vegetarian, walnuts on Dec 1st, 2009
As with a few other fellow bloggers, we were lucky to receive one of my favorite “blog freebies” to try recently – truffle products by La Boutique de la Truffe. Cha-ching! As some know, for most of us, blogging will barely help us buy a cup of coffee at a year’s end – that is [...]
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Posted in America, Argentina, Buenos Aires, England, Italian-American, Meat, New Jersey, brandy, butter, chives, cream, grilled, grilling, indulgent meal, mushroom, mushrooms, porcini, restaurant, rosemary, sauce, travel, turnip, vegetables on Sep 24th, 2009
New Jersey, it’s like a cross-section of the entire United States stuffed into a very small area — fenced-in by heavy industry, ugly sub-divisions, peaceful tidal bays and relaxing shore towns — but with its own very distinct character. And, if you drive around it long enough, you’re bound to see some pretty interesting stuff. This goes [...]
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Posted in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, South America, Uruguay, beef, crispy, culture, grilled, grilling, guts, indulgent meal, lemon, morcilla, offal, pork, sausage, sweetbreads, tourism, travel, veal on Jun 2nd, 2009
As Odysseus was nearly drawn to his destruction on the rocks by the enchanting song of the sirens, so your hardy WANF voyagers were almost powerless to resist breaking themselves on the plentiful tables of Uruguay. However, unlike Homer’s hero, for whom women were the main weakness throughout his epic peregrinations, during our recent travels [...]
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Posted in America, Chorizo, Colombian, Restaurant Review, arepas, caldo, chicharron, diversity, eating, empanadas, indulgent meal, podcast, red beans, restaurant, rice on Feb 5th, 2009
Cositas Ricas, A Colombian Food Primer:
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This podcast is an interview with our friend and native Colombian Juan Camilo Osorio covering not just the Colombian restaurant – Cositas Ricas – we visited together, but also some background on Colombian food and how it is eaten.
Some readers may remember back in the early fall when we posted about Bandeja Paisa, the gut-busting [...]
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Posted in Emilia Romagna, Italian, Italy, Modena, Pizza, Recipe, Tuscan, acorns, balsamico, delicacy, indulgent meal, lard, lardo, pigs, rosemary, salami, tourism, travel, unhealthy, vinegar on Nov 7th, 2008
Have you ever eaten something so fabulous, so lucious, so decadent that you almost felt the need to run to confession (to confess your indulgent food “sins”), say three Hail Mary’s (that’s for you Catholics out there) and pray really hard that you can zip your jeans up again? Ok, a bit exaggerated, but looking [...]
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Posted in Canada, Food Commentary, French, Montreal, Restaurant Review, butter, cornichons, cream, death, dining, eating, embarrassment, fried, fritters, indulgent meal, mushrooms, offal, spinach, tongue, tourism, travel, trotter, unhealthy, vinaigrette on Oct 21st, 2008
Gentle readers, please sympathize with me, for I, like a man who’s been dining exclusively on centipedes, have the bitter taste of defeat in my mouth. That this humiliation and defeat arrived, to twist a metaphor, at the hands of nothing more sinister than a pig’s foot, has only served to exacerbate these feelings of embarrassment and self-loathing.
Those of you [...]
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Posted in Chorizo, Recipe, Recipes, Steak, beans, beef, cabbage, chicharron, cilantro, cornmeal, crispy, diversity, egg, fried, grilled, indulgent meal, lunch, masa, morcilla, peppers, pinto beans, pork, red beans, spicy, tourism, tradition, yucca on Oct 1st, 2008
Disclaimer: Our dear Colombian friend kindly let us know that our too-styled, “pretty” version of Bandeja Paisa is a bit less authentic because of the way we put things on the plate. Hear our Juan Camilo discuss Bandeja Paisa and all things Colombian in our exclusive podcast interview.
We are fortunate enough to live in a city with [...]
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