Fourteen celebrity chefs, countless community bakers, 700 attendees, hundreds of pies — and we won’t even try to count the calories. Come back to the blog later today for a slideshow, and later this week, we’ll have a behind-the-scenes account of the competition, complete with a rundown of all the…
Phoenix, you’re sheer poetry. We asked you to write a pie-ku or two (haiku on our favorite topic, PIE) and you did it in droves. We got so many excellent entries, we couldn’t pick just one winner. The grand prize winner of our pie-ku contest will join the judging panel…
Hey, are you the judgemental type? Excellent — you’re just who we’re looking for. Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row are bringing you the fourth annual Pie Social on Saturday, November 16, and we’re holding a contest to choose a judge for the panel that will pick the best pies in…
With the scent of Best of Phoenix in the air (our biggest issue of the year final hits newsstands — and the Internet — later this week) we set out this summer to ask some of our favorite food folks to list their “Personal Bests.” We came up with everything…
This year’s Roosevelt Row/Chow Bella Pie Social has something for everyone — the vegans, the gluten-free folks, and anyone with a sweet tooth. This year’s event will take place Saturday, November 16, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the “What Should Go Here” Pop Up Park at Second Street and…
Get hungry, people. We’ve got some amazing chefs participating in the fourth annual Roosevelt Row/Chow Bella Pie Social, coming Saturday, November 16. We can only take 20 celebs — and the spots are filling up fast. So if you are prepared to make 12 pies (all the same kind) in…
The idea came, as many good ideas do, during a marathon thrifting session. As we loaded his trunk with the day’s finds — including a fabulous George Washington plate and several lovely floral numbers, all destined for a wall in a recently renovated kitchen — Robrt Pela looked up and…
Open your pie holes, Phoenix. Here we come! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row are looking for entries in the professional baker category of our contest — and don’t worry, as usual there will be an opportunity for everyone to make and eat pie. We’ve got the date and location, so…
The week ended on a sad note for us here at Chow Bella, when we received word that a beloved member of the Phoenix food community has fallen ill. Her name is Lisa Giungo, but you might know her simply as “Lisa G.,” and remember her namesake CenPho restaurant, Lisa…
This time of year, conversations at Chow Bella meetings tend to turn to who’s eaten what — where. With the summer travel season in full swing, we bring you Food Tours, our writers’ suggestions of what to eat and drink out of town. We will freely admit that we get…
If you can’t stand the heat — get in the kitchen. On Thursday, June 13 at 6 p.m. in the lounge at Crescent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix, Chow Bella presents our third public reading: deep-fried tales of summer, food and heat from some of our favorite local writers. See also:…
Chow Bella writers were honored at the Arizona Press Club’s annual awards banquet, held Saturday night at the Duce in downtown Phoenix. Chow Bella was named Best Metro Feature Blog. In addition, New Times’ food blog also took home second place in the feature blog category and a third-place award…
It was inevitable that Jason Rose represent Amy’s Baking Company. Who else but the guy who thought to nudge semi-senile, publicity-obsessed Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio into shilling for a restaurant called Pink Taco? The flack who bent campaign sign laws to get his sushi-slinging client publicity? The man who…
You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: The Simple Farm…
This weekend’s first-ever Feast on the Street was a giant success — and we mean that literally. Giant table, giant crowds, giant appetites. Before the food trucks ran out, we snapped some mouthwatering images. Check out more in our slideshow from the event. See also: – Feast on the Street…
By now you most likely know that New Times’ Big Brain Awards season is upon us — with Welcome Diner, The Simple Farm and Hayden Flour Mills making the finals in the culinary arts category. But have you heard of Artopia? It’s the party where we’ll announce Big Brain winners…
Twenty chefs, hundreds of people, and thousands of caramels — Smeeks and Chow Bella’s Caramelpalooza 2013, held Friday night at Biltmore Fashion Park, was (if we say so ourselves) the biggest and best yet. Stay tuned this week for a complete caramel play-by-play by judge JK Grence, who writes Chow…
Who knew we had so many poets out there? You wowed us with your sweet words about caramel, Phoenix, but there can be only one winner in our contest to choose a judge for Friday’s fourth annual Caramelpalooza, and that person is . . . See also: – Caramelpalooza 2013:…
With just a week to go before the fourth annual Caramelpalooza, the candy makers are busy boiling sugar and over here at Chow Bella, we’re tightening up the dental work in anticipation. What about you? Do you have your tasting tickets yet? Get ’em quick online or wait til the…
Polish off that sweet tooth, Phoenix, because Caramelpalooza 2013’s just a little more than a week away. Smeeks and Chow Bella’s fourth annual caramel tasting will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5, at UNION — a new location but the same sugar rush (more, in fact) you’ve enjoyed…
“Now I remember why I don’t like shooting,” Jennifer Longdon says, holding out her fingers to examine the chips in her bright red nail polish. The Peoria Shooter’s World is humming on a cloudy Monday afternoon in February. Plenty of people are here today — men, women, a kid with…
Are you getting creative in the kitchen? Want $500? Keep reading. New Times is presenting our fourth annual Big Brain Awards this year — which means a $500 cash prize for creatives in each of the following categories: performing arts, visual arts, online, design, craft and (take note, Chow Bella…
