Things are scary out there. I was away last week and couldn’t chime in; thanks for all your patience. Here’s a double dose of “scary good” news:
Our food system in America is so scary that we actually have a national awareness raising memorial called Food Day and in celebration you can head over to Open Arms at 6:30 p.m. at 2500 Bloomington Avenue South…
This one is big. Over the weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, where ironically I was also shooting an episode of Bizarre Foods, the Strib’s Lee Dean was attending a journalist convention and submitted the following post to a Taste Blog, where she declared a native Minnesotan dining critic who now writes for the Village Voice in NYC, to be none other than Ruth Bourdain, the…
Maybe you haven’t heard of him, but Joe Baum was a legend, and so few today understand the profound impact he has had on the American dining scene and on how we eat today. Rozanne Gold has written a superb piece on Baum, and it’s required reading as far as I am concerned. Cool trivia: Gold worked for my dad for a few…
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