Where to eat, what to cook, and what's happening around the city. Straight from the team that has been touring Columbus kitchens since 2010.
It had been a few years since I had been to NYC and I was excited to revisit the Union Square Green Market (separate post to follow), see the High Line (really cool) and explore some different neighborhoods. I was very lucky to have a native New Yorker and fellow food lover as my guide and
Read moreI stopped in Pittsburgh to meet a friend for lunch. She asked what I wanted to eat and when I said ‘something Pittsburgh-y’ it seemed that there was no option other than to go to Primanti Brothers. Primanti Brothers have been making sandwiches since 1933 and are Pittsburgh’s most famous sandwiches. Having seen them featured
Read moreHi All – TacoDrew here from Tacotruckscolumbus.com. Hungrywoolf is away on vacation and has graciously handed over the keys to her blog (and asked me to make myself at home). Hope I don’t make too much of a mess. Anyhow, Hungrywoolf has significantly updated her ‘Best of…’ page (link at the top). She’d like to
Read moreInnkeepers Ellen Grinsfelder and Terry Lingo have very kindly offered the prize for my first Hungry Woolf competition – A five course dinner for two at The Inn at Cedar Falls in the Hocking Hills. I was lucky enough to be invited to the Inn for a wonderful bloggers getaway weekend and now you have a
Read moreI received this email last week: My manager just watched Food, Inc the other day and now wants to eat grass fed beef and antibiotic free chickens and all that slow foodie stuff. I can’t think of many resources off the top of my head, do you have a list of information for our area (like the slow
Read moreLast week we watched the episode of Anthony Bourdain No Reservations where he visits his friend Michael Ruhlman in Cleveland. The episode was filmed in 2007 and is part of season 3. Yeah, we’re a little behind. After watching the show we were inspired to go and check out some of the places that they
Read moreRoland has very kindly allowed me to share his recipe for the Bacon Loaded Pierogies that won both the judges and peoples choice prizes at Bacon Camp Columbus last weekend. Roland was featured in The Other Paper in an article entitled ‘Pirogi Chef wins Bacon Title’. Awesome. His Pierogies were unbelievably good and although you
Read moreAlthough I have now lived in Ohio for 3 years, this year was my first experience of the State Fair. The fair is a huge, 11 day event that celebrates Ohio Agriculture and Ohioans’ love for festivals and junk food. There is deep fried everything from twinkies and candy bars to buckeyes and fries. There
Read moreHills Market host a lot of great food events, salmon and hog roasts, cheese tasting, dinners. This summer they are holding a series of crab boils. Sitting out on the patio on a hot summer evening eating crabs, you can almost forget you are in the landlubbery state of Ohio. If you have never eaten
Read moreI mentioned in my anniversary post that I was entered in a bacon cook-off. Well, sometimes you have to know when to cede to greatness, and when I tasted Roland’s bacon pierogies last week I knew that he should take my place. I was happy to be a guinea pig and to help in perfecting
Read moreToday was a perfect morning for a walk to the North Market Farmers Market. Beautiful early morning sunlight, dew on the grass and cool in the shadows. The air was clear, the sky was blue and the park is full of flowers. I love August already. The farmers market was also full of flowers and
Read moreThe Short North has great options for eating and drinking at all times of the day and night. Here are some highlights and some of my personal favorites: Rigsby’s Kitchen is somewhere to go for lunch when you want to be able to hear your lunch companion and have excellent food and service. It would
Read moreYesterday marked the first anniversary of this blog and it seemed fitting to mark the occasion in some way. This is also my 150th post. The blog started ostensibly as a means of sharing my food experiences. I think of it as a food diary inspired by writers such as Nigel Slater. I have always
Read moreLast summer Bono Pizza gained a cult following among Slow Food Columbus members who couldn’t get enough of their artisanal pizza. So much so that two of the SFC members ended the summer with pizzas named after them. Bono is run by husband and wife Bill and Peggy Yerkes and last summer they shared space
Read moreBakewell and Treacle Tarts I think I have finally caught up from our trip to England and France, more than a month after we got back. There are a few final things I wanted to mention. We spent a fun weekend in Tunbridge Wells in Kent with some of my best friends and unsurprisingly food
Read moreOne restaurant I wanted to write about is Incanto. It is joyously across the street from my parents house in Harrow on the Hill and we had dinner there on our last night. Had I remembered how good it was, I might have asked to go more than once. Incanto has a deli and coffee
Read moreA friend of mine gave me this book some time ago with the words ‘I think this is more your sort of thing than mine’. I felt a little slighted, as it looked like mindless-chick-lit-fluff but I added it to the tower of ‘books-to-read’. In my mind I relegated it to summer pool-side reading. I
Read moreLangmans is a small restaurant in the Cornish town of Callington, run by husband and wife team Anton and Gail Buttery. Langmans is open three nights a week offering a six course tasting menu based on local and seasonal ingredients. Anton does all of the cooking, including breads and petit fours and Gail presides over
Read moreWe spent a couple of beautiful days in the area of Looe and Liskeard in Cornwall. It is easy to see why so many people visit Cornwall every year, especially on a sunny day walking on the coastal path with the scent of honeysuckle and elderflower. The pride that the Cornish take in their food
Read moreI love corn on the cob. It was one of the pleasures of childhood summers spent in New Jersey with my grandparents. My grandfather grew his own corn, usually Silver Queen and when I was young I would go out on the tractor to help him pick it. He liked to bring it straight from the
Read moreThis post would have been more timely in May or June, when garlic scapes were abundant in the farmers market. Garlic scapes are the flower stem of hard neck garlic and by chopping them off you help to promote growth of the bulb (or so I am told). Chopping them off also means that you
Read moreI used to buy cookbooks on impulse. Now I like to borrow them from the library. This allows me to try out some recipes and decide whether it was just fun to leaf through, or something that I would refer to again and again. Was it just the beautiful photography that drew me in or
Read moreWe visited friends who are house sitting in the Tarn region of France. This area is known as the Pays de Cocagne (the land of plenty) and you can see why. It is a rich agriculture region with vineyards and fields of wheat, corn, sunflowers and potatoes, an abundance of farmers markets and all sorts
Read moreMy friend forwarded me a post from the Accidental Hedonist blog asking whether any other food/ drink bloggers wanted to review her new book. I like whiskey, I like to read and I like both food and travel books, so I did not hesitate to ask for a review copy. 99 Drams of Whisky is part
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