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Pizza

March 28, 2013

Been a while since I posted about my pizza-making exploits. I’ve tried two new methods over the last few months, and plan on getting it going again here in the next couple of weeks. First there is the Serious Eats (Kenji) “fool-proof” pan pizza. The dough requires little work. No kneading to speak of, just [...]

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Favorite { Dining – Drinking – Cooking } of 2012

January 3, 2013

Happy New Year! 2012 was another big year of living, and though I’m not as diligent with the old blog anymore, my appetite remains. As in years past, I wanted to put together a few thoughts and photos from some of my favorite dining, cooking, and drinking moments from the year that was. Humble-brags…yes, fair; but [...]

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Chicago (Blackbird, Hot Doug’s, Slurping Turtle, Gino’s East, Hippie Riots)

June 11, 2012

It’s been a few weeks coming, but I finally found some time between travel and work to post on my recent trip to Chicago. The weekend jaunt was just me and some friends – my brother Thomas, my pal Brian, and a few hundred NATO protestors. Yeah, that was going on while we were there. [...]

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Out of Town Dining

June 10, 2012

Columbia, SC Greenville, SC Charleston, SC Charlotte, NC Lexington, NC (BBQ) Chapel Hill, NC San Diego, CA New York, NY Chicago, IL Las Vegas, NV Paris, France Barcelona, Spain

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The Optimist

June 2, 2012

If you are looking for the seventh blog to report on the newly opened restaurant The Optimist, then it is confirmed, you are in the correct place. I’ve been eagerly anticipating the opening of Ford Fry’s (JCT) new restaurant, helmed by Adam Evans, former sous chef of JCT. The Optimist is close to my side [...]

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Gavage – Varasano’s, Rousseau at Park75, ESS, The Pit [Raleigh], Cooking

June 1, 2012

It was decided last month that when I have a glut of photos unrelated to a planned post, I’ll be calling it my “gavage” post. Suck it, California. Unlike our fatty geese friends, we humanoids do have a gag reflex, so apologies in advance for the force feeding you are about to endure.

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Food Critics in Atlanta, How We Miss Thee

March 15, 2012

If you’re reading a food blog like this, you’ve probably already heard that Besha Rodell and a few others were laid off from Creative Loafing yesterday. Besha is the only person I somewhat personally know of this group, who were subjected to the swift hammer of “corporate fuckery”, as Jen Zyman so precisely described it on [...]

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Record Setting, Unprofitable Tuna

January 10, 2012

The most expensive tuna ever was sold last week in Japan, at the famous Tsukiji market in Tokyo. Tsukiji is not only the largest supplier of fish in the world, but like the options for goods traded on the floor of the Merc in Chicago, the auctions at Tsukiji have a global impact on the [...]