Building Community, One Dinner at a Time

The clinking of glasses and soft laughter. Delicious food shared with friends. Good conversation served with coffee and dessert. As both Thanksgiving and the holiday season approach, ordinary everyday meals are...

5 Gourmet Macaroni and Cheese Recipes From the 2008 Tillamook Contest Winners

Popularized and enjoyed frequently by Thomas Jefferson, baked macaroni and cheese manages to be one of the most supremely comforting and filling dishes there is. However, with a few culinary tweaks and...

How to Make a Barack Obama Hot Dog

Today is a day of great joy for many, and disappointment for others. But whichever way you voted, give yourself a pat on the back for helping to jump start American democracy by participating in what may well be...

Halloween Recipe: Red Velvet Devil Dawg Sandwich Cookies

Red velvet cake is one of those Southern U.S. specialties that don’t often see the light of day anywhere else. If you’ve never had it before, a slice of red velvet layer cake could be, visually speaking, a bit...

First Female White House Chef Faces Uncertain Future, Tastes of New President

Depending on the outcome of the 2008 Presidential election, Cristeta Comerford, the first female executive chef in White House history may end up having to look for new employment. Since John...

3 Surprising Foods That Can Sometimes Be Poisonous (Plus 2 Tips to Stay Safe)

1. Nutmeg Four people fell ill, experiencing severe headaches and dizziness after eating an apple cake that was made from a recipe published in the August 2008 issue of the Swedish...

Local Food Celebration: The Four Corners of Carolina BBQ Road Trip

(1st Corner) Thick billows of smoke were fleeing from the windows of the gray cinder block building like spirits from an exorcism, but no shouts of alarm rose with the smoke, no sirens cut...

A Passion For Chocolate: The Odyssey of the Co-Founder of Scharffen Berger

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” –African Proverb 19 years ago, after being diagnosed with a deadly form of lymph cancer, Harvard educated M.D. Robert Steinberg traded in his stethoscope and...

20 Tasty Blogs Guaranteed to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

Here’s a list of 20 sugary blogs guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth that celebrate the world of cakes, candy, chocolate, ice cream, cup cakes, and other good (if somewhat guilt inducing) eats. As Don Kardong once said, “Without ice cream, there would be darkness and...

Eat It Up... Summerlicious in Toronto

Hungry for culinary adventure? Yeah, of course you are... Toronto's annual Summerlicious is underway, in which participating restaurants open their doors to a wider public with special prix-fixe menus. For many,...

Canada's food talent migrates west

Vancouver is quickly usurping Toronto as Canada's culinary capital, according to a feature in today's Globe and Mail. It's not so much a brain drain as it is a foodie exodus. Or something."Torontonians have long...

Travel Channel Anthony Bourdain takes stock of New Orleans restaurant scene

"The episode airs Monday night (Feb. 4) at 9. Bourdain hit town in September for the shoot, which was a quest to test the city's culinary fitness more than two years after the levee failures. Back then, sipping an Abita Amber in the lobby of the W Hotel on Poydras, Bourdain...

Foodie Films...Add your favorites to the List

Some call it food porn, in Got a favorite Foodie Film? on Word of Mouth (The Observer Food Blog), Susan Smillie shares some of hers.Check mine and add your favorites to the list on Serge the Concierge

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