Category Archives: Food and Drink

Reese’s Outrageous! Pieces bar

Posted on 20th September 2020 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

I love peanut butter, I love chocolate, I love caramel. And I really dig Reese’s Pieces. But Outrageous is less the sum of its parts. And that’s a real shame. The bar has a nice weight to it, and the … Continue reading →

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Huang Fei Hong Spicy Crispy Peanut

Posted on 15th September 2020 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

Peanuts are my jam. Okay, my butter. My soup. My sauce. My everything. *cues up Barry White*  Any way I can get ‘em, I get ‘em. I especially love a touch of spice to my peanuts, so hello Huang Fei Hong! These … Continue reading →

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Family Volcano Popping Candy – Lychee

Posted on 15th September 2020 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

C’mon.Everyone who’s able to tolerate sugar has tried popping candy of one sort or another. By the pool, after you shelled out your hard-earned allowance. After a bit of Trick-or-Treating. Maybe even sharing a few packets after finding some at … Continue reading →

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DeLallo Flat Fillets of Anchovies

Posted on 15th September 2020 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

I don’t like pineapple on pizza. I think it’s an abomination, and a waste of perfectly good pineapple. But what do I know, I like anchovies. So for part of my Feast of the Seven Fishes, here comes some ‘chovie … Continue reading →

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Chipotle-garlic potatoes to warm your heart

Posted on 10th September 2020 by Jennifer Stevenson

I ate this dish first in a restaurant in Miller, Indiana, a tiny town nestled inside the Indiana Dunes State Park. I was visiting an old, old friend whose mother had recently passed. We were engaged in clearing out the … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Gingerbread

Posted on 3rd September 2020 by Gus the Estate Head Gardener

I hope you’re enjoying the still-hot-from-the-oven gingerbread with a scoop of Madagascar vanilla ice cream on it. Bet you another piece that you don’t know the history of this culinary treat, do you? Thought so. So do take another piece … Continue reading →

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A summer salad: Melons berries and cucumbers

Posted on 9th August 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

This has become one of the tastes of summer for us here in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Credit where credit’s due, we got the idea from a superb restaurant that opened up two or three years ago, Castor in Corvallis.  Now … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 9th of August: two London based urban fantasies, Devolving Europe Festival, Oysterband live and other interesting things…

Posted on 9th August 2020 by Reynard

There’s nothing for your comfort in the place where I was born  Someone’s got the roses ’cause my people got the thorns;  My people are the poor ones, their country made of stones  Their wealth is in persistence, in stories and in bones Oysterband’s … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 5th of July: four American baseball films, an opera by John Gay, live music from from Mavis Staples, dim sum in Hong Kong, Middle-Earth maps and much more!

Posted on 5th July 2020 by Reynard

To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can’t write, I’d say that given some of the books I’ve read, or at least started to read, it would appear that not being able … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 14th of June: fey ethnography courtesy of Terri Windling, a song from Peter Beagle and other fascinating things.

Posted on 14th June 2020 by Reynard

“I am no king, and I am no lord. And I am no soldier at arms,” said he. “I am none but a harper, and a very poor harper That has come hither to wed with thee.” Peter S. Beagle’s … Continue reading →

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