We ran across this post about playing with your food over at San Diego style blog, Oh Joy!. We were completely smitten with L.A.-based photographer Andrea Bricco’s photographs — styled by Casa De Perrin, we had to check a few more out. More clever, delicious photos after the jump…..
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 2: Strawberry…
Yesterday we shared the first part of our talk with LGO chef, Paul Lindsay. Today he fills us in about the company’s new venture, Jose Roux, and why he loves working at the Arcadia Room. Jose Roux I’ve been fortunate. I started a Chelsea’s and then two months ago I got transferred…
The business: Duck Duck Pig What they’re packin’: Gourmet takes on classic sandwiches all featuring either duck or pork. This means everything from a pork belly BLT to a pineapple jerk pulled pork with coleslaw. The story: Ruggiero and Higginson are both fans of duck and pork and after checking…
If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones, the HBO medieval television drama based on author George R. R. Martin’s best-selling fantasy novels, but find yourself getting hungry at the recipes mentioned in the series, two blogs might be your food foray into the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. The first,…
Bye-bye Rumbi, hello Inca’s. Rumbi Island Grill, part of a chain in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona, has said, “aloha” to its location in the Scottsdale Promenade (next to Subway and Picazzo’s Organic Italian Kitchen), and will soon be a second home for Inca’s Peruvian Cuisine. The original location of…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 3: Smoked…
Since we’ve gotten close to making a complete seasonal circle, and getting close to roots and shoots season, we thought we’d start morphing In Season posts into something new. The idea: check out what I take home from Crooked Sky Farms each week and see what I’ve done with my…
West passed away last week at the age of 97. Doritos’ history and the burial plans after the jump…..
It looks like the folks behind Cartel Coffee Lab are brewing up a little something different — beer. Ever since the popular Tempe location took over the adjacent space, the rumors having been flying about what exactly they are going to do with the extra square footage. We have heard…
Taking your honey to the theater and dinner is so chic and cosmopolitan — and just got easier to do. ASU Gammage and Mill Avenue District got together to give your pocketbook a break with a “Dinner and A Show” package. This is the third year that Arizona theater patrons…
This week in Chef Chat we’ll sit down with Chef Paul Lindsay of La Grande Orange and the Arcadia Room. When did you know you wanted to be a chef?As corny as it sounds, I pretty distinctly remember standing in the kitchen with my mom when I was like barely…
After less than nine months at Prado, the Andalusian-inspired fine-dining spot at Paradise Valley’s InterContinental Montelucia, chef de cuisine Peter DeRuvo has left. DeRuvo, who started at Prado in January a few months after leaving Sassi, the award-winning Italian restaurant at the foot of Pinnacle Peak, replaced chef Claudio Urciuoli,…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 4: Delux…
Okay, it might not be the first pie truck to sling sweet treats in the Valley, but Mama Toledo’s is certainly the only one with the phrase, “We’ll shut your pie hole!” as a tagline. Featuring home made desserts like her Famous Eclairs, and pies including chocolate peanut butter creme…
Typically, here at Chow Bella, we prefer to sit back and let the conversation happen. We break the news, make the pronouncement, share the opinion. Then it’s your job, reader, to hash it all out — and of course let us know when we’re wrong. But after the downright crazy-ness…
We’re on a mission to find the places where diners should order dessert first. Local Phoenix favorite Cornish Pasty Co. is first to make the list with Chocolate Bread Pudding and Strawberry Pavlova.
If Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda bumped into Martha Stewart, hit it off, became gal pals and then one of them got dumped — this book would be the result. “Screw the Skinny Bitches…I Want to Eat” is a sassy hybrid of break-up bible meets girl-power cookbook that offers advice…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 5: Spanish…
We are always in the mood for bar staples done right. Kicked up versions of classic pub grub make the beer all the sweeter. From the sound of this week’s Cafe column though it appears Windsor’s take on bar food like pulled pork, fondue, and corn dogs could use a…
Tired of the same old tired orange chicken and California rolls? Want to venture beyond the standard suburban-stale take-out? Here comes Chop PHX, with the Valley’s rarer Asian offerings. This Week:Pani Puri from Little India (1813 E Baseline Rd.Tempe) The Basics: Pani puri is one dish from a larger grouping…
Welcome to AndyTalk — where Scottsdale-based chef and cooking instructor Andy Broder will share kitchen tips, recipes and musings on food and life. This week: mincing garlic. I get a fair number of questions about how to mince garlic. My answer is always the same. I mince garlic with a knife…
