Culinary Mischief, the roving secret supper club that debuted late last year, is returning on March 6 with another upscale dinner at an undisclosed location in Phoenix. This time, it’s a penthouse somewhere downtown. There are only 30 seats total for the event, which features six courses of Tuscan cuisine…
Barbeque sauce and grilled meat go together like Tiger Woods and cocktail waitresses, it seems like you hardly ever find one without the other. Sharon Stein says that customers of her locally made barbeque sauce, R Sauce, often mention how much they love the sauce, but don’t always have time to…
Julie Powell rocketed to fame with Julie and Julia, her blog-then-book-then-blockbuster movie adaptation starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession is her second work of non-fiction and I think it’s safe to say that Amy Adams will not be starring in the movie…
With weather this glorious, whose “fur kid” isn’t antsy to get out of the house and join you for a bite to eat? My pal Sarah and I spend a good deal of time talking about our dogs and their funny antics, and she’s even written a column about taking…
This week, we’ve heard from Julian Wright of La Bocca Pizzeria + Wine Bar on juggling concept restaurants and his love for Desert Sweet Shrimp. Today he shares his recipe for La Bocca’s Sicily Pizza…
kaszeta/FlickrDid the S.F.-based user review site engage in practices tantamount to extortion?A year ago, the East Bay Express went public with stinging accusations that user review site Yelp engaged in shady pressure tactics to remove or bury negative reviews for businesses that advertised or coughed up sponsorships. Last May, an…
Conveniently, Phoenix Permaculture Guild is sponsoring a class on “Wine Making Using Any Fruit” from 6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 18. The class is taught by Lisa Miller of Lady Bug Environmentally Responsible Pest Control, and will be held at their offices in Mesa…
Matt McCullough will make anything his customers want, but he really hopes that they don’t ask for something frozen. He doesn’t mind working hard to prepare a drink, he’ll mix a Ramos Fizz, a drink made with egg whites that can take 3 – 4 minutes of vigorous shaking. He…
Once again, my yin and yang cravings have kicked in. To make up for a fattening food coma brought on by a cheeseburger, fries, and chocolate malt shake from Johnny Rockets (on a junkfood binge before I went to finally see Avatar at the Arizona Mills IMAX), I needed something…
Life just got a little sweeter for pastry chef Tracy DeWitt. The chef-instructor at Le Cordon Bleu College of the Culinary Arts (formerly known as Scottsdale Culinary Institute) just accepted her 2010 American Culinary Federation Western Region Pastry Chef of the Year award at the ACF regional gala on Monday. DeWitt beat out…
An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. The SWRBC 2010 has sadly been canceled. Jason Silberschlag and his company, the much adored Cartel Coffee, were the reps for The Southwest Regional Barista Competition which was suppose to take place in mid March. Visit Arizona Coffee…
Home cooking gets all the credit for being comforting and soul-satisfying, but every so often, a restaurant comes along that’s as cozy as a warm blanket. Such a place transforms deceptively simple ingredients into something that lifts your spirit and makes you feel cared for — like you’re meant to…
In 2008, Sharon Stein became another victim of the recent economic downturn when she was laid off from her position as a Marketing Director with a timeshare company. With unemployment at an all-time high and job prospects few and far between, she decided to make a run at the barbeque…
Vodka is sort of the “high school boyfriend” of liquors: it’s usually your “first” and you feel comfortable and safe with it, but then you notice your more ambitious friends looking so much happier with others that you start to think that while staying with vodka forever may be easy,…
When Mark Twain said, “Golf is a good walk spoiled” we doubt he was thinking about the Waste Management Phoenix Open. How could he have imagined this? It’s like a city the size of Tempe emerged fully formed out of the desert for a week of golf and partying. This…
For die-hard baseball fans, there’s no better place to watch rundowns, shoestring catches, or tape-measure blasts than in Arizona during spring training season. And with the Valley’s nine stadiums hosting 12 major league teams, baseball buffs can work up a sweat, and an appetite.That’s why The Chow Bella Guide to…
Steamer’s Genuine Seafood and Sam’s Cafe, two longtime players in the Biltmore Fashion Park dining mix, will be closing on April 4. Even though Sam’s Cafe owners Doug Czufin and Bruce Lazarus recently bought Steamer’s and renovated it last year, they’re being forced to close both eateries as a result…
Yesterday we sat down with Julian Wright of La Bocca Urban Pizzeria + Wine Bar. Lucky for you, there’s a part two! Want to hear about his love for Desert Sweet Shrimp or his pitch for the Food Network? Read on! What are your rules in the kitchen?It’s really simple…
A good tortilla chip has to be fresh tasting, perfectly crisp, and just salty enough to compliment the dip being scooped. Today is National Tortilla Day, just the excuse needed to grab a bag of My Nana’s tortilla chips.The chips are made by La Canasta, a Phoenix-based company that started in…
Thank heaven for food spies. Slow Foodie-about-town Valerie Paxton was at FnB last night for a special fundraising dinner for local Slow Food advocate Natalie Morris, who’s about to head to Italy to get her master’s in food culture and communications at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Paxton took lots…
To a Southerner, chicken and waffles seems as natural a combo as peanut butter and jelly, rum and coke, Brad and Angelina. To the rest of us Yankees, it seems a little strange — fried chicken is clearly a lunch/dinner/picnic food, while waffles are for breakfast or dessert. Right? A couple of Southern transplant friends…
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? Every once in a while, in between morning mugs of coffee and Bailey’s, watching The Price is Right and talking to carnies, one needs to draw the shades on the observation deck and reflect…
