Laurie Notaro

One Mom's "Pinch of Cumin"

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. From the moment her child is conceived, a mother's love flows in the form of food. In the womb, it is delivered through her blood. In i ... More >>

Kim Porter Loves a Relish Tray

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. My sister approaches me with her baby on her hip, "Me and the kids have to go," she whispers, "I think there's about to be drugs." We' ... More >>

Candy Hearts: Stories of Food and Love

Julie Peterson on Love, Loss, What She Wore -- and What She Ate

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. In a decent childhood, someone feeds you routinely, from the very first day. How can there not be at least some love associated with be ... More >>

Laurie Notaro and Others Tell Stories of Food and Love at Crescent Ballroom Feb. 12

What does spaghetti have to do with love? Only Laurie Notaro knows, and she's not telling -- not til Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. when Chow Bella presents Candy Hearts, our second public reading at Crescent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix. See also: - Laurie Notaro's Eight Food(ie) Terms Past Their Ex ... More >>

Top Five Phoenix Food Stories of the Week

Every week, there's a cornucopia of Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you're like most people, you probably just don't have the time to get to all of it. It's kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won't all fit in your mouth ... or in this ca ... More >>

Laurie Notaro Tells What Happened The Year They Served Brie and Blueberries to Her Mother on Christmas

Ah, the holidays. Christmas is all about love, sharing, sweetness and light -- and keeping the antacids handy. In keeping with the spirit of the season, Chow Bella presents "Eating Christmas," in which some of our favorite writers nosh on the real lessons we learn this time of year. Today, Laurie No ... More >>

SHINE: Your Pocket Guide to Scottsdale

Once a year, New Times puts the spotlight on Scottsdale in SHINE, our annual pocket guide. As usual, the 2012 edition includes many of our favorite spots to drink, dine, shop, party, and get a culture fix. This issue features some pretty amazing food & drink. See also: - SHINE: Your Pocket Guide ... More >>

Shine Interview: Richie Moe

Shine Interview: Country Velador

Shine: Last Page

Shine Interview: Tania Katan

The Five Tastiest Energy Bars

See also: Laurie Notaro's Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Wine-Free, Fun-Free, Vegan Thanksgiving Most of us are on the move these days -- and with nutritionists telling us to eat smaller portions spread throughout the day, grabbing an energy bar on the run can seem like a good idea. That is, until you ea ... More >>

We Challenged Five Metro Phoenix Bartenders to Make a Drink Called "The Haboob": Here's What They Poured

See also: Laurie Notaro's Recipe for Haboob Brownies If New Orleans can have The Hurricane (a cocktail typically mixed with rum and fruit juice or grenadine), we figure it's high time someone invented The Haboob. And so for the past few weeks, we've scoured the streets of Phoenix in search of barte ... More >>

Laurie Notaro's Recipe for Haboob Brownies

See also: Laurie Notaro's Five Reasons Why Haboobs Are Awesome Several weeks ago, I was forced by the hand of hormones to make a pan of brownies. It happens. One moment you're browsing an Anthropologie catalog thinking, "They'd do so much more business if they sold sizes boobs actually fit into," a ... More >>

Chow Bella's Top Phoenix Food Stories of the Week

Every week, there's a cornucopia of new Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you're like most people, you probably just don't have the time to get to all of it. It's kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won't all fit in your mouth . . . or in t ... More >>

The Famous Pinterest Rainbow Cake: Did We Succeed?

Surely you've seen the rainbow cake. It's pretty darn popular. As my fellow Chow Bella-ite Amy Silvemran puts it, the rainbow cake is nothing less than "the holy grail of Pinterest." Pin Up Girl would be a farce if we didn't conquer this thing. So this week we spent three hours (which is a ver ... More >>

Six More Food(ie) Terms that Drive Laurie Notaro Nuts

It turns out people get pissed when you call them out for acting elitist for something they have to do or they die. We all have to eat; but when you start acting kinda Big Ike about it, you ruin it for everybody. Thus, here are six more terms plus a bonus round that I'd like to permanently strike fr ... More >>

Tumblr of the Week: Kanye Chef

See also: Laurie Notaro's Eight Food(ie) Terms Past Their Expiration Dates We're a music blog, but that doesn't mean we aren't passionate about our food, too. When we're not blogging about music festivals and reviewing shows, we're reading about farmer's markets and edible grasshoppers at our siste ... More >>

Forty More Food(ie) Terms to Ban From Your Culinary Vocabulary

Chow recently compiled a list of the 40 words they wish would go into the woods and make wounded animal noises. We've taken a look ourselves and have to agree with their consensus, particularly in light of Laurie Notaro's stable of doomed food words. Indeed, we see now that we will seriously need to ... More >>

This Week's Tastiest Links!

• Did you see Laurie Notaro's Eight Food(ie) Terms Past Their Expiration Dates? Oh my, it's a mouthfeel -- and we're just talking about the comment section. - Chow Bella • Jon Stewart gives "pink slime" the business, but in the end, delicious, mechanically separated meat pulp gets the last laug ... More >>

Hipster Foodie Mauled By Bear to 80's New Wave Soundtrack in Very Satisfying Video

It would appear that the internet sensed Laurie Notaro's unconstrained loathing for foodies and unleashed its own critique of food fetishists. Behold the Lonely Island-esque work of The Key of Awesome! and American Hipster and rejoice. Lampooned: Aggressive food photography, obnoxiously long descr ... More >>

Laurie Notaro Loves Restaurant Mexico, has a Bone to Pick with Chow Bella

​ Typically when we make a list around here, we share our favorites. But once in a while, a Chow Bella contributor feels compelled to warn you away from a spot (or 10) and so was born our list of the 10 Worst Mexican Restaurants in Metro Phoenix. Check out the comments on the post. Not a one is w ... More >>

Five Reasons Why Laurie Notaro Loves Phoenix (and More from This Week's Resolution Guide)

Years before we actually met Laurie Notaro, we knew of a filing cabinet in the basement offices of Arizona State University's State Press where someone Sharpied, long ago, "Laurie Notaro threw up here."This week, in the print edition of New Times, you'll find our Resolution Guide that's filled with ... More >>

Laurie Notaro's Chicken Pot Pie, Pot-Infused Vodka and 8 More Favorite Recipes of 2011

​Boy, are we full. 2011 was a year of great new restaurants, delicious morsels -- and many new recipes to try. Here are a few of the favorites Chow Bella shared with you this last year.  10. Laurie Notaro's Chicken Pot Pie Not only was our favorite funny lady kind enough ... More >>

Misfit Thanksgiving: Four New Times Writers Recall Their Most Memorable Turkey Days

Laurie Notaro's Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Wine-Free, Fun-Free, Vegan Thanksgiving

Luster Kaboom​This year we're giving thanks to some of our favorite writers for sharing tales of Thanksgiving woes -- and joys. Today Laurie Notaro -- a Phoenician transplanted to Eugene, Oregon who frequently threatens to move home -- explains why she's got Thanksgiving PTSD. Last year w ... More >>

New Times Summer Guide 2011

Resolution Guide: The Extreme Edition

Sew Obsessed: An Addiction to Fabric

Heather Hales, What Are You Baking?

courtesy of Heather Hales​Even if your oven sits cold all year, chances are you're considering firing it up, right about now. As a holiday twist on our "What Are You Eating?" feature on Chow Bella and "What Are You Wearing?" on Jackalope Ranch, this holiday season we brought you "What Are Y ... More >>

New Long Wong's Music Venue: What Does It Mean?

​OK, by now you've perhaps read on our food blog that there's a new Long Wong's planned for Apache and McClintock. "Big Deal," you may be thinking, "those wing joints are everywhere."Not so fast. A close inspection of the zoning documents reveals that this Long Wong's is planning to have music up ... More >>

Laurie Notaro's 'Cake Wednesday' Makes Hump Day Delicious

Every so often we come across a little gem for foodies while wading through the muck of Facebook. This week, we spotted something on bestselling author and former Phoencian  Laurie Notaro's FB page we just had to share. And it involves C-A-K-E... http://www.flickr.co ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 9, 2008

The ID Girl

Hapless heroine comes home

The ID Girl

Hapless heroine comes home

There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going To Hell

(Laurie Notaro)

New Times' Summer Guide 2007

You're gonna dig it the moist

Pretty Dorky

Author Notaro shares True Tales

Shameless Plug

Author Laurie Notaro channels painful wit through her pen

Idiot Girl, Interrupted

Laurie Notaro blows town

Idiot Savant

Notaro spins more funny yarns

The Kids Are Not All Right

Letters from the week of August 8, 2002

Revenge of the Idiot Girl

The Republic's ex-Idiot Girl gets her revenge

Beer Swilling Lugs

The Spike fails to find salvation in either God or Guinness

Survey Says...

New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

Planet Waves

VENUE VENOM

VENDEADA

REMEMBERING DOUG HOPKINS