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.
Our tours have, up until recently, been as close to seamless as we could have possibly hoped for. Weather – certainly a big variable on the taco truck tour – has been almost invariably wonderful, our guests have been almost unfailingly engaged and appreciative, and our restaurant partners have gone above and beyond in providing
Read moreKings of Pastry is showing until October 7th at the Gateway Film Center. I highly recommend seeing it while you can. It is a quirky, touching, funny and overall captivating documentary about 16 chefs competing in the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France MOF) competition. This is the Olympics of French patisserie, a three day competition
Read moreYou may have noticed that there are a lot of ‘Taste of…’ events in September, including some pricy fundraiser events, like ‘Taste the Future’. Following close on their footsteps next weekend is the far more accessible Taste of Grandview Heights on Sunday October 3rd from 2-7pm at McKinley Park, 1661 Goodale Boulevard. Unlike the others,
Read moreIf you are an avid twitterer in Ohio you have probably come across @roguebakery. Rogue Bakery is not a conventional bakery with a store front and they don’t advertise. It is more of a secret cookie club spreading by word of mouth on social media, and knowing the secret is part of the fun. Like Columbus
Read moreLocal ice-cream legend (and valued Columbus Food Adventures partner) Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is opening their newest location in Clintonville on October 1st! And, it’s not just any Jeni’s – in addition to everything that makes any Jeni’s store an instant neighborhood hotspot, this location also includes the additions of freshly brewed Stauf’s coffee and – oooh
Read moreWhile I was out of work the library was a wonderful place. I could borrow books and movies without worrying about spending money I didn’t have. I could test out new cookbooks, escape in some fiction or research career options. Here’s a post I wrote about my library love last year. Now the library is
Read moreOur first special event tour, a collaboration with Slow Food Columbus, was a great success. Our sell out tour was a full day of Ohio eating and drinking, with just the right amount of education. We toured, and tasted wine at four Ohio River wineries- Kinkead Ridge, Meranda Nixon, La Vigna and Valley Vineyards. Some
Read moreHave you ever tasted a pawpaw? If the answer is no, then you should make plans to head to the Ohio pawpaw festival next weekend. Pawpaws are the largest native fruit in the United States and the official native fruit of Ohio. They are also an Ark of Taste fruit. They grow on trees in
Read moreHere’s a different sort of adventure – tour the food of Columbus’ best restaurants while staying in the same place. We have two tickets to giveaway to Taste the Future, a wonderful event, which helps to fund scholarships and other special programs at Columbus State Community College. To whet your appetite here are more photos
Read moreWe are pleased to be partner with Local Matters for a special benefit tour during Local Foods Week 2010 (October 2nd-8th). Our tour will highlight some of the talented chefs in Columbus who emphasize local sourcing. Our four stops will be Skillet, Latitude 41, Clever Crow (at Circus) and Knead and will also feature CBC beer
Read moreThe pools are closing, the kids are back in school and yesterday I saw pumpkins and apple cider at the farmers’ market. It’s officially the end of summer. For me it seems to have gone by in a flash – I’ve been going full throttle all summer on our new business start up – Columbus
Read moreToad in the hole is a very traditional English dish. A quick explanation if you haven’t come across it before – it is sausages baked into Yorkshire pudding batter and yes, I know it’s confusing that it’s called pudding. Yorkshire pudding is a baked batter that’s similar to popovers. It is often served with gravy.
Read more*Purchase tickets here!* We are excited to announce that we will be partnering with Slow Food Columbus to offer an exclusive, full-day tour of the wineries of the Ohio River Valley. We will see where and how some of the best Ohio wines are made, learn about the history of Ohio wine, and taste a wide
Read moreMany people, myself included fell in love with the yellow squash mustard pickles from last weekend’s Flying J dinner. Zach and Mary Briggs are Slow Food Columbus members who lovingly made and generously donated the pickles for the event even though they weren’t able to attend the dinner themselves. They gave me permission to share
Read moreSlow Food Columbus’ third annual open air dinner was held at the Flying J Farm near Johnstown Ohio. Our run of good luck with the weather had come to an end, but such is the risk of any outdoor event and we ploughed on regardless. Contingency plans were put into action and our smiling host
Read moreOur apologies for not keeping the blog as updated as we’d hoped to – the last month has been a whirlwind, and we’re still trying to catch our breath! The tours, overall, have been going very well. There was a bit of a learning curve to working out and refining the logistics of each tour,
Read moreLast Sunday’s Grown in Ohio potluck for the Goodale Park Music Series was a big success. Three tables were packed with food showcasing the bounty of the Ohio harvest. From colorful beets to delicious peach desserts it was a tempting spread. Hungrywoolf was the host blog and I wanted to focus on fruits and vegetables
Read moreThe Goodale Park Music Series is one of my favorite things about summer in Columbus. It’s a recipe for relaxing Sunday: great music, friends, running into people you know, sitting under a shady tree, people watching and enjoying a picnic lunch. This summer the Goodale Park Music Series also features a community potluck. Each week
Read moreThis week marked hungrywoolf’s second anniversary and as with the first anniversary, it seems an appropriate point for some reflection and thank yous. The most common reaction of people that I mentioned this milestone to was ‘really, it’s only been two years?’ and while it does seem like a lot has happened in the last
Read moreIt was no secret, among many around town, that Anthony Bourdain came to Columbus last November, and it was no secret that he brought his camera crew with him. Thanks to the efforts of a several local foodies with connections, Bourdain and crew were directed towards Kihachi and Clever Crow pizza. From November on, we
Read moreColumbus made a brief appearance in Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations ‘Heartland’ episode this evening. The fly-by visit was great exposure for two of our local talents but caused much consternation in the twitter-facebook-CU sphere, mostly due to Michael Ruhlman’s comments about Applebee’s and his apparent surprise that good food was to be found in Columbus.
Read moreI haven’t been posting as much on Hungrywoolf in recent weeks as I would like, but I think I have a good reason. I’ve been working towards the launch of a new venture, my new business – Columbus Food Adventures. Starting July 27th I will be offering small group food tours of Columbus. We are
Read moreI had been kicking around the idea of starting a food tour business in Columbus for quite some time – over a year, really - but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago that the true viability of the idea gelled for me. What was the catalyst? Oddly enough, it stemmed from work we were doing with CMH Magazine. They had asked us (the alt.eats team) if we might be interested in doing an article based upon some aspect of our blog, and since there were so many alt.eats picks on Cleveland Ave., we suggested basing the article upon the theme of all of the great ethnic restaurants that nobody had heard about on that strip.
Read moreOne of the reasons that I signed up for the Wayward Seed Farm fruit CSA this year was the lure of Eschleman Fruit Farm apricots. Wayward Seed partner with Eschelman’s for the fruit CSA and so far we have had strawberries, apricots, cherries and blueberries. I love fresh apricots, both visually and to eat. The
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