Don those aprons, home cooks. MasterChef, Fox’s competitive cooking reality show judged by celebu-chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur and wine maker Joe Bastianich, and Graham Elliot, the Michelin-starred chef from Chicago, is looking for contestants for its fifth season — and it’s headed our way…
Biscotti might conjure memories of stiff, nearly inedible cookies with little to no flavor that almost certainly must be dunked in a tea or coffee to revive it back to life. Luckily, Silver Spoon is here to change all of that with crumbly, moist biscotti in unique flavors that cater…
Ingrid E. Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, sent a letter to the Arizona Department of Corrections this week asking Director Charles L. Ryan to take meat of the menu. The idea was spurred by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who recently made that move at…
There’s always something good cooking at FnB Restaurant in Scottsdale, and that includes the three dining and drinking series the restaurant is kicking off this fall. Owner and front-of-the-house host extraordinaire Pavle Millic has rounded up a group of “grape geeks” for a Late Night Winos Tasting Series that will…
What’s the best way for a husband-and-wife team to cook the food they love together every day? If you’re Brooke Francis and Nathan Carel, you start a food truck. Called The Roasted Shallot, Francis and Carel’s food truck will hit the Valley’s mobile kitchen scene in mid-October (if not sooner)…
Day or night, truck or table, tacos are becoming the go-to grub of many Phoenix locals. With an array of fillings, salsas, and tortillas, these mini meat and veggie pockets are essentially the choose-your-own-adventure of finger foods. While it’s easy enough to get our fix of larger, more monotonous dishes,…
Stepping into Jenny Kuller’s 1950s-inspired kitchen is like traveling straight back in time. The pink walls, patterned curtains, and stacks of colorful tablecloths make the small room a vintage sanctuary. Everything from the authentic food packages and containers (retro Jell-O, anyone?) to the shelves of salt-and-pepper shakers and figurines transforms…
Gay rights advocates are calling for a boycott of the largest pasta company in the world, Barilla Group, after the company’s president said in an interview Wednesday that he wouldn’t use gay families in the company’s advertising. And as if that weren’t already enough to spark outrage, Guido Barilla went…
Oh, horchata, the hottie of cold drinks. Its sixth-grade-joke-inspiring name is oh so fitting. It’s zesty and delicious, but those aren’t the only features this drink has to offer — it often si subtly diverse, made unique by the creators who serve up glasses loaded with your chilly, dreamy-creamy goodness…
The event season starts off hot this weekend with Roosevelt Row’s second annual Chile Pepper Festival, and if that doesn’t strike your fancy, know that Oktoberfest celebrations are in full swing. There’s still enough time for one last summer road trip though, and we’ve got a few good reasons to…
Normally, we don’t see pavlovas popping up on dessert menus. In fact, the only place you may have seen this beauty is on the glossy pages of a food magazine. Perhaps you’ve dismissed the pavlova for its simplicity or it could be that you have never tasted the fabulous textures…
In June, when we last left Karl and Christine Boerner, the Swiss-trained father-daughter pastry chef team behind Karl’s Quality Bakery and the next-door Baker’s Daughter, they were making Kronuts (their version of the Cronut) and suing their landlord. The first effort worked out well; the second, not so much. The…
Renegade by MOD is the daring new restaurant from chef Michael O’Dowd, whose decade at Kai earned the restaurant AAA five-diamond and Forbes Travel Guide five-star acclaim. Breaking free of his corporate chains last fall, O’Dowd is now a first-time restaurateur as well as a celebrated chef. And at his…
It’s that time of year again. After months of planning, research, and collecting the gems of our city, the Best of Phoenix 2013 issue has hit the stands. This year, we take a journey into Phoenix’s past to unearth the vintage beauty of our city…
50 Shades of Grey author E.L. James launched a line of wines inspired by her now famous trilogy earlier this week. You can have your choice between the subtly sexy white wine, “White Silk,” or a red varietal dubbed “Red Satin.” We’re honestly a bit surprised there isn’t a gray…
What does the Valley’s biggest risk-taker of a restaurant look like at the moment? Its cuisine takes a familiar dish and plugs it into a culinary electric socket, invigorating it with inspirations from countries like Japan, Italy, and China, and presenting it in ways that make necks crane at nearby…
Chandler-based Nutwhats is one of the few start-to-finish chocolate makers in Arizona, and the confectioners use it to make unique candies called Scribbles. The company’s uncommonly shaped, magnificently buttery, nutty brittle treats are now available in sweet-savory flavors like Salted Almond Scribble, finished with a drizzle of chocolate, and Green…
Once a week, my son comes by to go to a movie or out to dinner with us, a time to touch base, to hear about his college classes, to hug him and kiss him and know that he’s OK. Picking a place to eat is always dicey; both he…
When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that…
Welcome to Chow Bella’s Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you’d like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. Requests from diners are nothing new. Perhaps they have to do with omitting a certain…
Here’s the thing. When it comes to gardening in Arizona, our climate differs so much from the rest of the country you can’t rely on advice from someone in Ohio. You might find that your favorite seed catalog just doesn’t offer what can be grown here in the fall during…
There are already plenty of ways to get drunk. (See: shots, keg stands, chugging, or just sipping your damn beer like a normal person.) But if none of those options sounds appealing, you can now inhale your booze, thanks to the Vaportini, a product released earlier this year. The Vaportini…
