Full Gastronomic Tilt

Before today, I had never made oatmeal cookies of any kind. However, the weather and my curiosity came together quite nicely to encourage a pleasant experiment. In the span of 7 days, I ran across 2 separate oatmeal cookie recipes that I filed away “to try later.” But when I woke up this morning and [...]

A mashup of the “25 Things” meme floating around Facebook and the 100 Things To Try Before You Die extravaganza, Asheville-style.
(See the 100 item San Fran list here.)
25 (edible) Things to Try in Asheville
Note: This is definitely not meant as a “Best Of.” By no means exhaustive OR exclusive, you might turn your nose up [...]

My first experience with pasta alla vodka was as a teenager, while out to dinner with my parents at a fancy restaurant. At the time, my thought process was probably something like: Hey, it has alcohol in the title!
Being too young to drink, I suppose it was some misguided attempt at rebellion.
Since then, I’ve ordered [...]

(photo* courtesy Christopher Greene)
Growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania and being of Polish descent on my father’s side, pierogi were a cornerstone of my childhood. Everybody ate them and loved them with the sort of fierce passion normally reserved for a favorite pizza joint. (Old Forge pizza is a story for another time.)
Everybody’s grandmother made them. [...]

Hello and welcome.
After keeping a personal blog for many years, I began to realize that the majority of my posts were now food-centric. This coincided, unsurprisingly, with my learning how an RSS feed works and a newfound obsession with food blogs. (See left hand column) Not to say that life took a backseat to food, [...]