I was traipsing around central Kentucky last week, picking up where I left off from my July trip there, for more bourbon and regional cooking research. And this week I'm in Pittsburgh, along for the ride while my husband takes a course at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. One [...]
It's a terrible thing to have to admit, but it's not often that I get giddy with enthusiasm about a dinner out. Part of the reason is the simple reality that I've eaten out so many times for so many years--particularly while I was editor of the Seattle Zagat guide and food [...]
It's probably just as well that the camera was still in my suitcase in the back of the rental car. Probably wouldn't have been a good idea to be taking pictures while driving yesterday afternoon. There had already been a serious accident on I-64, a backup I'd soon be caught [...]
Yes, another trip to Vegas. This time mid-June with good friends John and Kathy Casey. Even bigger Vegas hounds than us, they have far more wee-hours stamina than I do, though one night I did manage to stay up until 2:30 am (woo-hoo) or so, thanks to a particularly fun [...]
A couple of summers ago I did an article for Seattle Magazine about the trend of urban chicken-keeping that was sweeping Seattle, and surely still is. The story was instigated by a trip on the City Chicken Coop Tour, put on by Seattle Tilth. It snuck up on me this [...]
Lucky me. I seem to hit New York City at its most memorable extremes. My previous trip was February 2007 and there was a blizzard. I was wearing heavy boots, dressing in layers and leaping over mountains of snow at each curbside. On this recent trip, by contrast, I was treated to a heatwave, [...]
The IACP conference gets into high gear later today. Yesterday was my last vestige of unstructured time before the agenda gets packed. After a productive morning of work in the hotel room, I treated myself to a couple hours walking around the French Quarter. And after all that serious thinking [...]
I leave bright and early tomorrow for a week in New Orleans, where I'll be attending the annual conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. I'm on the board, so being at the conference is something of a command performance. But I've only missed one conference--San Antonio, for no [...]
This will be one of those "a picture is [hopefully] worth a thousand words" posts. Although unfortunately, you end up getting nearly a thousand words as well. My little digital camera must have been near capacity when we got home last week from five days in Washington D.C. I can't [...]