The Need for Green

These days I am regularly asked, usually by people I don't know especially well, about the state of my stomach. Have you been craving anything in particular? they want to know. I assume they are hoping to hear that I've been porking out on butter brickle ice cream topped with ...

Vindahlo—Part Two: good eats for all

[For the story on how we got here, you may read Vindahlo—Part One: a history.] "Listen, Sister," the Squeeze said to me, waggling a piece of spice-crusted beef in creamy fenugreek sauce on his fork, "I'm not saying I don't wish this was A-1." My face must have fallen, just a ...

Kenny and Zuke’s

My experience at the delicatessen at SW Stark and 11th is admittedly limited. I have been to breakfast there only three times but was three times very, very pleased. Breakfast number one: Potato latkes and housemade applesauce, hold the sour cream. Best danged latkes of my life, seriously. I figure they ...