Urban Honking

Curt and I tested out a Hot Knives recipe for a new project they are working on. We were assigned Portobello Poutine and it was delicious! There were some small shopping problems as the selection at Whole Foods is always forcing one to make substitutions (no oyster mushrooms!), but we were able to get a […]

About five years ago—on April 5, 2006—we told you how to make a psychotropic pizza then dictated it must be paired with a pint of Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter and Jefferson Airplane’s “Surrealistic Pillow” album. Was that the first time a food web log suggested that one dish, a certain beer and a particular […]

I’m easing back into blogging after an unintentional hiatus. It seemed good to start with the thing I prepare most regularly at work: crudite platters. I cut up veggies and make dips (hummus/eggplant) every day. I never did either of these things until I started cooking for the family I work for. I’m all about […]

In February of 2010 it was decided that we should eat a vegetarian diet, and four months later it was decided that I should add fish to my diet. Now, over a year since the the first dietary restrictions were added by shareholder approval, we present a counter-proposal to remove all dietary limitations. This would […]

Date: February 19, 2011 Location: Cascade Brewing Barrel House, 939 SE Belmont Street Present: Josh Berezin, Mike Merrill   JB: New brewery to us, and we’re jumping right in with their “live from the barrel” beers. MM: Those are actual holes in the barrels, that’s not a gimmick. JB: Yeah, I was figuring they’re not […]

Date: February 19, 2011 Location: Cascade Brewing Barrel House, 939 SE Belmont Street Present: Josh Berezin, Mike Merrill   JB: New brewery to us, and we’re jumping right in with their “live from the barrel” beers. MM: Those are actual holes in the barrels, that’s not a gimmick. JB: Yeah, I was figuring they’re not […]

We’ve no beef with practitioners of the oldest profession — it’s the second oldest we worry about. Middlemen. Middlemen lie to you. Exploit your weakness. They tax your tea, charge overhead, and tell you only they can talk to god. They — in a word — blow. Which is why we don’t buy cheese at […]

Aztec party animals got dowwwn. And their parties usually meant one thing—a stew of corn kernels simmered with freshly plucked human flesh. Word is, this combo came from their totally-high-on-blood belief that their god fashioned humans out of corn meal, and an early ‘snout-to-table’ attitude to not waste the still-beating heart of the lucky dudes […]

In 2007, my friends at m ss ng peces and I started work on a new Internet-television show called RESET, for the Sundance Channel. The idea was to make a show designed for computers to watch, that could teach them what it was like to be human — a sho…

Marvel at our sugar galaxy with its cracked nutmeg orb, clove and peppercorn moons, anise stars and wispy blood-orange winds. So goddamn beautiful we can barely bring ourselves to bring the first bite of pancake to our mouth. Yeah, this is maple syrup — on crack. It’s easy, simple enough even legit crack heads could […]