Author: biteclub

In N Out Secret Menu

Do you do it Animal Style? A primer to the 'Secret Menu' at In-N-Out

McRib returns

Like Cher, this is REALLY the final tour. Really. Until the next farewell tour.

Hot Box Grill | Sonoma

Hot Box Grill in Sonoma is about to be huge. Comfort food with a solid foundation of classical French cooking make Chef Norm Owens a toque to watch in the gourmet gulch.

What’s up with the high price of lemons?

I have long shared Ms Jordan's intuitive sense that the better part of a buck for a commercial lemon just seems expensive and, like anyone over the age of 5 and not in a coma, I am painfully aware of the economic date rape perpetrated by such noteworthy offenders as high-speed cable and internet, public utilities, and - to the topic at hand - large scale agri-business, which got me thinking: Is the market for lemons competitive, or just another special-interest screwing?

The Pirate Lord of the Hot Line (Book Review)

...A compelling argument for reading material but, naturally enough, I make it through security at SFO without so much as a day-old copy of the Times, and why I purchase - at prices inflated by profit margins that only airport monopolies and cable companies can dream of - two books, one of which is Jason Sheehan's Dirty Cooking, and which turns out to be an excellent little book about one man's particularly hot, dangerous, sweaty and chemically-enhanced life on the hot line.

The Costco Report

The Costco Report: Episodic observations on where to port safely, and what to avoid like a pestilence, when navigating the oceans of consumer non-durables down in The Belly of The Beast... I sometimes (often, in fact) feel the need to justify shopping at Costco. I'm not sure why, exactly, but one could speculate:

In N Out | Santa Rosa

First outpost of popular burger joint opens in Santa Rosa