Foodier Than Thou

A couple of weeks ago I was standing in line at our outstanding grocery store, West Berkeley Bowl, paying for my stuff. "Nosy-parker...

Okay, maybe I exaggerate a little. But it was really, really, crazy big! Here's the story..... Soon after I had yet again upped my pig...

The inspiration for this new cocktail came to me while I was cross-country skiing. I kept thinking about my ginger liqueur, and Thai coconu...

You know those classical paintings where you see the painter from the rear, painting himself using a mirror, and the mirror continues to ref...

From the moment I first took a sip of this classic Thai soup at Manora Thai Restaurant in San Francisco, I was smitten. So rich, so creamy,...

I'm not sure why it took me so many years to learn to make Chinese-style fried rice. Sometimes I allow myself to get into certain habi...

As I wrote in an earlier post, by the end of Easter week the hambone was clinging modestly to its last morsels of pink. It was time to mak...