Urban Honking

“When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night – A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.” Flann O’brian’s eponymous ode to stout has been playing in our minds like a Joe Strummer ballad on repeat. The end […]

Talk about mangia, mangia, mangia, mannnn. On a recent herby Sunday afternoon, we popped a bomber of ale and picked some fresh basil and got the hankering for a sloppy trough of pasta. You know, the kind that clings to the corners of your open-wound of a mouth or the stained bib on your naked […]

Sure, it sounds deceptively carnivorous and a little barnyardy, but this standout sandwich, which we concocted for our most recent grilled cheese experiment, deserves an arresting name. A more accurate description might be “chevre-salad-sammich.” See? Not as cool. The above was the third sammy (the only goat cheese) in our four-cheese sammy series (collect the […]

Indigenous green thumbs called them the “three sisters”: corn, beans and squash. That’s partly because they grow in such harmony together, shielding each other from a harsh and beating sun, and because they taste so good with each other. This classic threesome is “calabacitas,” a mash of corn and sqaush and beans. We’ve cooked bastardy […]

Still summer! Summer can be a season of plenty. For those of us with quant home gardens, “plenty” is no problemo. But for friends of ours like Aubrey White, who helps run a dozen-or-so acre community garden, plenty can mean a small conference room filled with zucchini. That makes summer the right time to dust […]

A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly and is also known as a buster always talkin’ about what he wants and just sits on his broke ass so (no) I don’t want your number no I don’t wanna give you mine and no I don’t wanna meet you nowhere no I don’t want […]

Cheers to your health: Czech beer spa offers sudsy soaks Say what you will about the healing properties of mud baths, saunas or lavender-scented candles, but soaking in a stainless-steel tub filled with Czech beer put my body and soul at ease. I was in the brick-lined cellar of Prave Pivni Lazni (original beer spa), […]

Cheers to your health: Czech beer spa offers sudsy soaks Say what you will about the healing properties of mud baths, saunas or lavender-scented candles, but soaking in a stainless-steel tub filled with Czech beer put my body and soul at ease. I was in the brick-lined cellar of Prave Pivni Lazni (original beer spa), […]

Over the last week we’ve been experimenting with pickling and sprouting, two ways to make awesome components for whatever you like to eat. Techniques are still being formulated, so those recipes are forthcoming. With our first batch of pickled onions we made a sprightly little white bean hummus, flavored not with tahini, but a roasted […]

The Summer often finds us posing many questions as to the appropriateness of our intake. We will never ever fully settle on which beers we really want in the summer, and our penchant for broiling, braising and grilling usually trump our desire to stay cool. This weekend, we focused on the heatless preparation of salad […]