Urban Honking

Despite the impending cold and rainy forecast for this coming weekend, and the endless onslaught of snowstorms in the southwest, we are ardently in support of a special little someone’s prediction of an early spring. It felt like the little dude’s no-fear attitude was for real, earlier this week at least, despite the nearing apocalypse. […]

In Scotland there are entire eateries devoted to battering and deep frying pre-fab foods from chocolate bars to individual frozen pizzas. This truly encapsulates the seemingly-American-only-drive-to-obliterate-the-body through sumptuous trans fat overload.The third facet to the first No-Drive menagerie is likewise insane–an all fried plate. Instead of deep fat fried calamities like snickers bars and sausages, […]

Last week we came home from a particularly heavy night of drinking to find a sweet surprise on the doorstep: a hulking party pack of somewhat experimental potato chips from the Kettle test kitchen (courtesy of our good web friend Mikey).

One of childhood’s trashiest pleasures, these Styrofoam packages of dehydrated non-nutrition tasted brilliant despite, even because of, their innovatively cost-efficient design: a self-contained bowl, light and aerodynamic ingredients with the simplicity of astronaut cuisine. Just add water. And never underestimate the importance of format when it comes to food.

Following a radical dinner with a low matainenence dessert that doesn’t bore your friends or destroy your kitchen is damn near impossible. Usually we just crank out a cheese course, serve some whiskey, and look all doe eyed until someone else owns up to doing the dishes. This “cheesecake” is really quick to whip up […]

Last month we unveiled a new cheese advice and gossip column called Dairy Pairy. Our hope is to spread some little-known facts about curds, give some suggestions on eating decent dairy that doesn’t contain animal rennet and speculate about killer combinations of cheese and beer. But most importantly, cheese is our favorite goo to geek […]

We thought we’d never see the American craft beer scene enter into the arena of caffeinated malt liquor (i.e. Sparks, Red Bull & vodka, Cocaine etc.). But the other day we stumbled upon perhaps the next closest thing: Mateveza, an ale brewed with yerba maté, the strong South American herbal tea. Usually you find it […]

Knife Tip # 6 File this one under technik. We’ve often daydreamed about stuffing entire cabbages with fake meats, herbs and vegetable mashes, but never got our shit together. The stuffed cabbage is just a little daunting, it being the size of a large child’s head. But upon recent experimentation, we found that individual cabbage […]

The recent cold fronts have incited waves of fried food and heavy stews in our kitchens. This week we were yearning for something heavy on all the things we’re supposed to focus on by being vegetarian: fiber, flavor and tons of vitamins. This wintry salad will not only fill you up (and clean you out) […]

Scotch style ale is a blessed rarity. Not too many breweries endeavor to make their own variation, and those that do generally do an amazing job.