I’m a cheap bastard. My normal practice when driving across the bay to concerts is to park my car in one of the two hour parking slots, head into the show to catch the opening band, leave the venue and move my car to another two hour spot and return to finish the concert. On Thursday night that actually saved me from missing a pretty [...]
May 6-10 marks teacher appreciation week. It is a week to sit back and reflect on your favorite teacher of the past and the lessons they taught you. For teachers, it is a chance to eat a bunch of carbs and candy. It is also a chance to dress like Cyndi Lauper, Magnum P.I or Charlie’s Angels and really freak your class out. So maybe [...]
Winston-Salem took major pride in Purple for the past week. It had nothing to do with the royals in town or spiritual fullfilment but everything to do with eating habits. A paint the town purple campaign was sponsored by the Novant Health Maya Angelou Woman’s Health and Wellness Center. The goal of this campaign was to raise awareness about the obesity issues in the area. The [...]
I have such a soft spot when it comes to mushroom risotto. If I am walking down the street and see a stray bowl of creamy risotto wondering around aimlessly with no owner in sight I will 10 times out of 10 take it in. This leads to some hectic craziness in my place. A few weeks back I had no less than eight bowls [...]
We’re back with another installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview Series. This time we get up close and personal (or as close and personal as the internet waves allow us to) with Trapdoor Social. Band members Merritt and Skylar and I talk about such things as environmental activism, sustainability, spicy foods and Death Cab for Cutie. We then head off to the kitchen for a mean [...]
Lunch table, circa 2013. Seven women and a dude are enjoying their various meals (mostly storebought, except for his which looks to be a gallon of chili that he is attempting to eat for a week straight). A middle aged woman with a Georgian accent pulls out a cardboard box of leftover Chinese food. She declares to everyone that this is the “freshest Chinese food [...]
Unless you have been sleeping (or against seeing movies that are award nominees) you’ve probably heard about Argo. It is the story of a far fetched, ridiculous, off-the-wall plan by the United States government to go in and save six of their embassy workers who are stuck in Iran. The plan? To make up a movie and pretend they are scouting a location to film [...]
I’ve been cooking up a storm this weekend, so I’ll be back with food I actually made in my own kitchen shortly. First I wanted to share about one of the places we ate on our trip north. Usually J-Fur and I use the holidays as a chance to visit family (who always want to cook for us) and hit up some of the local [...]
When it comes to seeds or nuts that have been ground into a paste, my world has always revolved around peanut butter. During my teenage years when I sought out a quick after school snack, I grabbed the bread and put together a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My first forays into Asian style rice usually involved a peanut butter blend for the sauce. Green [...]
