I'm back from Arizona after a very relaxing week of golfing, watching baseball, and enjoying gorgeous weather that can best be described...
Chef John is Taking a (Real) Spring Break!
I�m excited to announce that I�ll be leaving Monday for Arizona's Valley of the Sun, for a week of baseball, golf, and not working on a ...
Gaining Weight at the Taste Awards
No, not from all that Schiltz smoked goose , but from those two gorgeous medals hanging off my neck. Speaking of gorgeous, as great as getti...
An Award-Winning Smoked Goose
I�m heading down to Los Angeles tomorrow for the Taste Awards , and in addition to the medals we won for �Best Food Program: Web� and �Best...
Giving Thanks
Michele and I had a very lovely Thanksgiving holiday with the family in Davis, CA. The food and company were wonderful, and as if that wasn...
Time to Vote! (and you thought the campaigning was over)
We are thrilled to announce that Food Wishes is a Taste Awards finalist in two categories this year! As you may know, we've won an awar...
Gluten Free? Don�t Look at Me!
My inability to help visitors to this blog with questions about gluten-free Thanksgiving baking has been well documented. I�m a gluten junki...
Giving Back to NYC
Since New York City and surrounding areas are still in such desperate need of help, I thought I�d post links to some of our favorite NYC-ins...
Warming Up with Beef Merlot
The weather just turned cold and wet here in San Francisco, and when that happens I always crave something hot and comforting, ladled from a...
Happy Birthday Julia!
Today would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. As I recounted in the post " A Chicken for Julia ," she was a great influe...
Happy National Rice Pudding Day
Can you believe it's already National Rice Pudding Day? Man, time flies. Anyway, someone somewhere decided that August 9th should be Ric...
Eating Chicago
If you were following our trip to Chicago via Twitter and/or Instagram , you may have seen these pictures already, but I wanted to do a quic...
On the California Zephyr to Chicago
California Zephyr Train Photo (c) Flickr user Loco Steve Michele and I are on a train to Chicago! We have a family wedding to attend, and it...
Happy Mother's Day!
A happiest of happy Mother's Day to all the moms, and mom-like followers of this blog. I've posted this clip before, but it never fa...