In Season: Basil

Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce.This week’s harvest: Basil “It was believed in Greek and Roman times that to have a good basil crop, you’d have to yell loudly and…

Truck Farm: “Whimsical Musical Documentary” at FilmBar Aug. 22

Sustainable urban agriculture has a new face. It’s 1/1000th of an acre and in the back of a pick-up truck. Ian Cheney, co-author of King Corn, has created a new documentary titled Truck Farm. Truck farm is described as a “whimsical, musical documentary about the quirky world of urban agriculture.” …

Follow Friday: Phoenix Food Photographers

It’s that time again. We’ve compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. If you’ve ever wondered who was the creative photographer behind some of your favorite food pics, here they are. Rick Gayle (@rickgayle) Has snapped pics for clients like Fairytale…

Gwen Ashley Walters’ Perfect Food Day

Gwen Ashley Walters is a professionally trained chef, and spends her days writing about food — you might know her blog Pen & Fork. She is a “smoothie savant” and tweets (@chefgwen) about her ultra creative smoothie ingredients like Avocado + Kiwi + Lime + Sriracha. She’s a restaurant critic,…

In Season: Purslane

Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week’s harvest: Purslane/Verdolagas Purslane is the fancy schmancy succulent weed that you see at farmers’ markets around town and the rest of the…

Follow Friday: Phoenix Food Lovers With Charming Twitter Handles

It’s that time again. We’ve compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. We were enchanted by the cleverness of these foodies’ handles on Twitter. Rather than just using their first and last name (or some variation of such), they’ve used their…

Dominic Armato’s Perfect Food Day

Dominic Armato is a big-time overachiever. Not only does he do voiceovers for tv and video games, he also manages his family’s packaging business in Chicago (night job), he’s a full-time stay-at-home dad (day job) and finds time to write a delightful food blog Skillet Doux. Skillet Doux contains lovely…

In Season: Sweet Onions

Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week’s harvest: Sweet Onions They are sweet enough to be eaten like an apple – it’s the fresh or “sweet onion.” They might…

ZPizza Helping “Kids LiveWell” and Eat Well

The NRA (not that NRA), the National Restaurant Association, is rolling out a new initiative to encourage restaurants to offer something different from cheezburgers, grilled cheeze, nugget shapes, fried potatoes and a “juice” on kids’ menus. It’s called “Kids EatWell.” The focus is on “increasing consumption of fruit and vegetables, lean…

Follow Friday: Chefs/Cooks On TV

It’s that time again. We’ve compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. We’ve been spending a sad amount of time indoors this summer running away from the heat and searching out new food inspiration on the boob tube. Everybody is tweeting…

Vegan Eats at Pomegranate Cafe, The Expatriate Mainer’s Brunch Review For Harlow’s/Joe’s Diner/5th Ave. Cafe/St. Francis, OOO (Orange Olive Oil) Cupcakes

A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. Valley vegan blog Four Legs Good shared their love of the recent brunch at Pomegranate Cafe in Ahwatukee. They tried the scramble special consisting of “vegan chorizo; tofu; sautéed peppers, onions and zucchini; avocado; pinto beans and Daiya vegan cheese, plus…

Kirti Dwivedi’s Perfect Food Day

You might have seen Kirti Dwivedi at one of her favorite restaurants, tweeting about eating (she’s a self-professed social media addict – @DiyaMarketing) and otherwise thinking about food. She tweets about live organ donation (#TinyFabKidney) as her mother needed and miraculously found a kidney donor via social media. She’s a…

In Season: Okra

Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week’s harvest: Okra Hey, y’all. Are you hungry for some okra? Okra is one of those vegetables that you either love or hate…

Follow Friday: Phoenix Indian Fare on Twitter

It’s that time again. We’ve compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. In honor of all this crazy Haboob-y monsoon weather, we thought we’d feature Indian (where they also have monsoons) food twitterers in the Valley. Bombay Spice (@BombaySpice) Find some…

Georganne Bryant’s Perfect Food Day

Georganne Bryant is the owner of Frances, Smeeks and the new Frances Studio, all in Medlock Plaza on the northwest corner of Camelback and Central. If you’ve seen those Love Phoenix or Leave Phoenix t-shirts and bumper stickers around town, we have her to thank. She has enviable taste in…

In Season: Melons

Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week’s harvest: Melons It’s time to enjoy the fruity floral spheroids. There are quite a few varieties of melons that you will find…

Follow Friday: Baked Goodies

It’s that time again. We’ve compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. We had a hankering for some treats and thought we’d share some of the Phoenix bakeries on twitter, plus some bonus cupcake love. Cupcake Cafe AZ (@CupcakeCafeAZ) We can…