Culture Recipes
Traveling Italy (Part 3) – Modena’s Hosteria Giusti
As people who claim to know anything about Italian cooking, it is not hard to imagine how we ended up in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy on our trip after loving the food and culture in the Amalfi Coast and the Tuscan wineries and restaurants. The Emila-Romagna is an area many famous Italian chefs, including [...]
Traveling Italy (Part 2) – Chianti, Siena and Tuscany
There are not many places in the world that I’ve seen like Toscana (Tuscany to us North Americans). Especially in the summertime, when man, that Tuscan sun is intense – the movie didn’t lie about that one. So after an amazing few days down on the Amalfi Coast, Aimee and I made our way via [...]
Traveling Italy (Part 1) – The Amalfi Coast and Campania
So with a few days of married life under our belts, Aimee and I set off to Italia – a place we’ve long looked forward to traveling together for the sights, architecture, art, bot mostly the food and wine. Our first stop on the trip was the Amalfi coast, where after loads of recommendations, we decided to [...]
Dear Diner: Up For Breakfast in Manchester, VT – Score: 10/10!
Let me first start by explaining what it’s like to go on a trip with Bob Owen – my father. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been to the destination once or a thousand times, you’ll always feel like a tourist. He’s a man in constant need of information – “What are you known for”, “Who [...]
‘Tournament’ Texas Chili Recipe: A Bowl of Red – The Chili State of Mind
Ever since I had a bowl of “3-X” at The Texas Chili Parlor – the famous spot in Austin, I’ve been enchanted by the call of the Red. A pot of chili creates an excitement and sense of history. Most of what I know about chili came from an article in Esquire magazine from [...]
Cooking Well
The longer I have cooked professionally, the more frequently I have come to ask, what does it mean to cook well? It’s somewhat of a loaded question. Plenty of people cook well at home every day, with nothing more glorious than ingredients from a local chain store. To the professional chef it means a host [...]
Fredericksburg Brewing Company
“Hill Country” in the heart of Texas is not only the home of the totally amazing Enchanted Rock, it is the peach growing capital of the state, and home to many German-influenced towns like Fredericksburg. After a rough, windy day of rock climbing in the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, we stopped into this charming [...]
Hawaiian Musubi: A Traditional Island Classic
Greetings from Kauai! This story starts when we were invited to a friend’s home for a Holiday breakfast. There’s a nice tradition on the island that everyone invited for a meal brings a dish or two to share, even if the host tells you not to. We’re bringing musubi, an island favorite. Musubi means something [...]
Top 20 Beers in America – The Top 10
This article is a continuation of the Top 20 Beers in America List from The Fresh Dish. To see the first part of this post, please click here. Ok, so back to the list. The following is the top 10 of the Top Beers in America post. These beers that are mentioned here are my [...]
Top 20 Beers in America – Part 1 (20-11)
Beer production in America has come a long way in the last 30 years. As we all know by taking a stroll through the beer aisle at the supermarket or your local liquor store, there are more brewers now than ever before, and new outfits seem to pop up all the time. Though I’ve only [...]
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