Need we say more? And if you just absolutely cannot wait nine days to get your eager lips on the canned version of Hop Knot, Beckett’s Table will be shoving cans of the stuff up the rear of 36 chickens tomorrow night. Thirty-nine bucks gets you a whole chicken, a…
Sometimes, along with great cinema comes great sandwiches. From Robert De Niro’s turkey on rye in Copland, to Gary Busey’s meatball sub in Point Break, to Clark Griswold’s picnic-sandwich-that-he-doesn’t-know-has-pee-on-it in National Lampoon’s Vacation, here’s a fun little montage honoring moviedom’s most memorable grinders. Follow Chow Bella on Facebook and Twitter. …
IHOP, the breakfast joint chain best visited following an evening of drunken debauchery, recently launched IHOP at Home, a new line of “premium frozen breakfast items that are inspired by the innovative and craveable flavors IHOP is known and loved for.” Huh? IHOP’s new frozen breakfast line includes Omelet Crispers…
Bacon, America’s meat candy, is already pretty amazing on its own. So a contest that challenges folks to make something from what some say is the most versatile meat on the planet truly raises the (bacon) bar. Instructables member and bacon-enthusiast, CopperTwist decided to take a porcine point of view…
If you’ve ever tried to photograph your food at home, you know that it’s tricky business. It looks and tastes so good but then you check the viewfinder of your digital camera and it looks like a yellow-tinted blob. Want to make your images look like what you see in…
Cornish Pasty Co. is a big hit with Chow Bella. And why not? This is comfort food at its finest, all wrapped up in a package you could hold if that meat/veggie-filled pastry wasn’t so darn gigantic. Don’t feel like leaving the house? Make your own. Learn how to make pasties…
Hospitality is his middle name. The consumate gentleman, Pavle Milic of FnB describes himself as “the lucky partner to one of the best cooks in the town — Charleen Badman.” He loves to eat. He loves the process of cooking and the act of sharing and breaking bread with family and…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Lamb Dinner BRAINS!!!! Lamb brains that is. Friday, May 13th chef Peter DeRuvo is serving up brains, tongue, tail and everything in between at the “Head to Tail” Lamb Dinner from 6-9 p.m. at Prado in Paradise…
If you happen to be in Tucson this weekend, you might want to stop by the Mercado San Agustin for “HotDish in the Old Pueblo,” a pop-up venture by Phoenix’s Lara Mulchay and Joel LaTondress. You might remember Mulchay from Petite Fromage, her (sadly) now-defunct Phoenix cheese shop. The self-described…
High unemployment, businesses tanking, Arnold and Maria splitting up after 25 years of marriage. Dammit, can’t we as human beings get just one shred of evidence that the universe isn’t going to shit on us today? That the recession isn’t causing one more good person to lose faith in themselves?…
They say living in Phoenix is like living in Chicago — only a lot hotter. There certainly are enough Windy City transplants here. And Chicago-style pizza. Now the Valley gets one more taste of Chicago in the form of Spinato’s fifth metro Phoenix location, which opened recently in Ahwatukee. Ken…
The new spring version of Arizona Restaurant Week starts this Friday, May 13. With over 50 restaurants involved in the $30-40 three-course meal deal, it’s hard to figure out which places to hit. The Dhaba’s menu looks delicious, for example, while White Chocolate Grill’s “Date Night” special doesn’t impress. To help…
It’s not a side dish. It’s not a soup dish. It’s pho — a main course, a noodle dish. In Vietnam, it’s the people’s food. Street food. And at Pho Thanh, it’s delicious. It should be — it’s the house specialty. Think all bowls of pho are the same? Think…
How much thought have you given to your plastic coffee cup lid? Not much, we’re guessing, unless you tipped it the wrong way and spilled impossibly hot liquid down your front. And definitely not as much thought as some folks, profiled in a fascinating piece in the Atlantic that includes lots and lots…
Less clown, more coffee shop. That seems to be the strategy surrounding McDonald’s biggest McMakeover in its fifty-plus year history. According to an article in USA Today (The Mickey Dee’s of newspapers!), the fast-food chain is spending over one billion McDollars to transform the majority of its 14,000 stores into…
Marketplace — the latest venture from the Arcadia Farms folks — is basically the restaurant’s original concept, only grab-and-go style. The aesthetic is pure Arcadia Farms: cutesy reclaimed decor like old milk carrying crates stuffed with gourmet crackers, apothecary jars lining the front window, chalkboard menus, and an old wooden wash bin…
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: Fennel When you pick up a fennel bulb at the market and give it a good once over, you nose might get…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Taste the Nation Help Share Our Strength fight childhood hunger by stuffing your own face with exquisite eats from Valley chefs at the 2011 Taste the Nation Friday, May 13th. Watch 15 expert mixologists go head…
Local foodies and chefs — from other cities — are anxiously awaiting tonight’s announcement of the 2011 James Beard award winners in the restaurant and chef categories. Arizona restaurants and chefs were shut out on the list of nominees. But Phoenix did have a brush with stardom at Friday Night’s awards gala,…
For real “big cities,” finding a place that serves quality food late night is a walk in the park. Literally. For Phoenix, eh, not so much. But there are a few local eateries that also understand our late night needs. Here’s a roundup of our favorites around town.1. JoBot Downtown’s…
It’s always fascinating to see what authors do with “local” cookbooks that supposedly highlight the cuisine of a particular region. So when Albuquerque resident and chile pepper expert Dave DeWitt’s new tome The Southwest Table: Traditional Cuisine from Texas, New Mexico and Arizona arrived in Cooking Virgin’s mailbox, I couldn’t wait to see…
Middle Eastern Hummus, Italian Pasta e Fagioli, New Orleans Red Beans and Rice, even Hannibal Lecter’s Fava beans and Chianti transform the modest bean to a stellar ingredient. All beans are seeds that stem from the plant family leguminous. More importantly, beans deliver plant-based protein, are high in fiber, and…
