Category: BiteClub

Tov Tofu coming

Korean restaurant to open in Santa Rosa

Cooking For Kids with Just Three Ingredients

About a month ago, lacking my hoped-for, fleeting, and frustratingly oft-absent daily quotient of inspiration and incisiveness, I decided to try something new and, I admit, sort of gimmicky: I decided to find out out how many distinct, complete dishes I could compose using just three ingredients. And, importantly for our household, nowhere does the fewer-ingredients/simpler-technique approach bear sweeter fruit than in response to my frustration of cooking for kids.

A Fondolicious Slice

If you live in Sonoma County, either you rode your bike with Levi Leipheimer in the Gran Fondo this past Saturday, and it’s still all you want to talk about; or you didn’t, and you’re ready to cave in the skull of the next person who regales you with his or her war stories from […]

Luma | Petaluma

Neighborhood eatery in Petaluma's warehouse district boasts a wood-oven, SF chef and creative winelist

Meat, Braise, Love

Producing a braise in your own kitchen is a bit like making porn in your own bed: It rewards practice, because when you get it just right, it's the best you'll ever see, and all the times you don't, it's still a very long way from sucking. Similarly, there is just so much to love about the braise: Purely from a gastronomic perspective, no other cooking technique so easily employed by the home cook comes close to creating the depth and concentration of flavor than does the properly executed braise.

The Caffeine Addict: Hooked, Locally

Suffice it to say that the taste and smell of a food (for the avoidance of doubt, coffee is closer to the bottom than the top of the Food Pyramid, at least in my kitchen) changes by virtue of the food's contact with the air we breathe, and most of these changes are not for the better.

The Caffeine Addict: Palate Fail

I have a Coffee Mea Culpa and it is this: I like bad coffee. Not awful coffee - I care not at all for the taste of two-day-old-and-tasting-of-burnt-gym-socks coffee, of low-grade beans apparently canned sometime during the early days of the Cold War, of Dunkin' Donuts or McDonald's drive-through "Cafes" - but coffee that is, in some objective sense, not ideal.