WOOF, there it is! (sorry.) To celebrate the upcoming royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, award-winning cake designer Michelle Wibowo created a colossal Corgi cake, setting a new Guiness World Record for the largest dog-friendly cake — nearly 6 feet long, 4 feet high, and roughly 150 pounds…
Counting calories is such a pain. We just want to eat and be happy. Ugh, but then we can’t button our pants after too much blissful ignorance. Great, now what? Well, if you have an iPhone, there’s totally an app for that. Fill Your Plate tweeted the link to this…
Making good bbq is not easy. It’s an exercise in patience; one that requires discipline and hard work. That’s why we leave it to the pros and their fully-equipped BBQ restaurants. Sadly, it looks like Big Earl’s Fancy BBQ is not the place to spend your BBQ dollars. Music Editor…
Craving a little light reading with your morning latte? Earlier this month, the Oregon-based Dutch Bros. Coffee outfit released the first in a series of limited release comic books featuring “Fro”, “Mullet” and several other animated characters made popular by Dutch Mafia creator Brant Boersma (son of late Dutch Bros…
In celebration of Earth Day — the American invention intended to inspire awareness and gratefulness for our natural environment — many will be “eating green.” You know, chowing down on seasonal, locally grown, organic fare and making a difference in this wretched world. But for those who think Earth Day is…
DONG! Apologize, haters! Beasley Allen may have dropped its class-action lawsuit brought against Taco Bell, but the fast food giant ain’t rollin’ over that quickly. They want an apology. According to Eater, TB has launched an ad campaign demanding the Alabama-based lawfirm say they’re sorry, running full page ads in…
Remember the very first episode of Project Runway? You know, the one where Austin makes the corn husk dress? Love it. Running around food and fashion blogs lately are these amazing visual treats from famed Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia. Bonavia is best known for shooting ad campaigns for luxury vehicles like…
Hungry for some awesome restaurant deals? The Arizona Restaurant Association announced yesterday that they’ll be following in the footsteps of Long Island’s Restaurant Week sponsors, who recently added a spring event to their annual culinary lineup. The first-ever Spring Arizona Restaurant Week will take place May 13-22, 2011 at major eateries across town. The roster of participating…
We don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade or anything, but Easter is like on Sunday. That’s in about two days. If you’re planning on getting your brunch on you had better book your table quick or else you will be stuck in a champagne-less kitchen attempting to make your…
Easter Sunday, the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is right around the corner. Along with the holy hoopla is the grub. And though Captain Miracle’s mug may not make an appearance at this year’s traditional Easter dinner in a slice of ham, deviled egg, or Peep, he…
There are few foods more perfect for springtime noshing than the classic chicken salad sandwich. It’s cool and refreshing, but still hearty and filling. While the dish seems simple, chicken, mayonnaise, celery and seasoning, getting the right mix – especially not overdoing the mayo – can be tricky. To find…
Anyone up for some frog leg lollies?This Friday and Saturday, mobile food chef Jeff Kraus of Truckin’ Good Food fame steps down from his Parisian kitchen-on-wheels and moves to the turf of the pop-up concept Cycle, for a test run of his non-mobile restaurant concept “Experience” Apparently, people are stoked…
Those devilish Danes have done it again. Curse their delicious Nordic cuisine! (Not really. Pass the Greenland musk ox, please.) Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino’s annual “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list is out and it seems Denmark, the land of Lego AND Hans Christian Andersen, is also home to first-prize…
The infamous Nile Theater, which closed down in 2002 after repeated violent incidents including a triple shooting, reopened under new ownership last year with a decidedly cleaner image. Now the all-ages venue is taking that image one step further by adding a small eatery and coffee shop called Lo-Fi Coffee…
DONG! It’s over. According to the Associated Press, the class-action lawsuit brought against Taco Bell by an Alabama-based law firm claiming the fast food giant’s products contain very little meat and requesting they quit referring to their questionable meat mixture as “beef” has been withdrawn. Whew! My Cheesy Double Decker…
Sure, the fondant-covered, jam-filled vanilla cake that baker Dan Gentle made for his co-worker Collen’s baby shower may be a delicious delight, but for some reason, we’re just not that hungry anymore. The question isn’t so much WTF? (although that’s a good start), it’s WHY?…
Poor Olive Garden. First the Italian food chain got tagged for accidentally serving a child sangria (“Mom, dis Kool-Aid makes my sgetti bwurry!”), now it’s the target of recent internet buzz with tales of what really goes on at its infamous Tuscan cooking school. You can almost hear the collective…
After spying a new-ish show this weekend on The Cooking Channel called The Urban Grocer, we followed the young traveling foodie to her blog where Caitlin Zaino featured a pop-up concept called Eat with Me. Based in Australia, Eat with Me is a social networking site dedicating to help you…
Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup aveg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week’s harvest: Beets Beets are very sensual. They are sweet, earthy, dirty, hard when raw, tender when cooked and just plain sexy. Tell me…
The guy who brought us Postino and La Grande Orange is at it again, with news today that two stylish-sounding eateries will open next week in Phoenix. This morning, azcentral.com reported that on April 25 Craig DeMarco is opening Windsor (a bar with light food) and Churn (ice cream) in a…
One of our tips for cooking meatless is to prepare a pot of grain over the weekend, mostly brown rice, and have it on hand to add to soups, stocks, and casseroles or to make a fresh grain and vegetable salad during the week. Going meatless one day a week…
A little over a week ago I committed an act of culinary terrorism in my own kitchen and put it on video. I learned (all right, I kind of guessed the outcome) that treating a Cadbury creme egg like an actual egg is a great way to fry up a…
