April 2013
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Why has no one thought of this?
Are there any recipes for turkey that use lots of chives? Because that would be really chive turkey.
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The Definitive Ranking Of Noodles From Worst To... →
A little carb-on-ha-ha, mayhaps?
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March 2013
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February 2013
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“The hands, Dario says, are everything. With them, cooks express themselves, like...”
– Heat, by Bill Buford
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nofriendsnoproblem asked: do you have the recipe for those bacon cookies you posted? YUM
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January 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
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October 2012
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Article links
The two posts beneath this are part of a series I’m writing at buzz about getting close to your food. Part 1 highlights a “nose to tail” dinner at Big Grove Tavern, where the Chef created a five-course tasting menu with a 214lb pig from a local farmer.
Read up! There will be two other stories coming; one about butchering (more from my peanut gallery of personal experience) and...
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Meet the Chef →
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Eating From Nose to Tail →
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Nana's (again)
I love this place! This most recent time, I went with my lovely mama-friend, Kelly-Jane. We had a super great time and the food was, of course, awesome.
Meet KJ!
I had a chai, which I had never had there before and it was killer. Not too sweet, lots of foam, super aromatic. Delicious!
We shared a whole bunch of yummy plates so we could eat both sweet and salty. The one and only way to eat...
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“It is not length of life, but depth of life. … A great integrity makes us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Immortality”
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ALL OF THESE COFFEE PLACES LOOK AMAZING. →
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Or read our article here! →
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The Kentaco Derby
Jasmine Lee, the Food & Drink Editor at buzz, and I wrote a story together trying to find the best tacos in CU.
Long story short, we ate a lot of tacos (many of them in the same day) from a lot of places and found a bunch of restaurants that we didn’t even know existed or had tacos in CU.
Tacos stop feeling good right around six or seven. Unless you can normally eat that many, then...
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September 2012
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Family Brunch at Radio Maria
My mom came to town for the first time ever that wasn’t my parents helping me move things elsewhere or coming to see me sing in something. It was weird.
My parents aren’t huge sports fans (and by not huge sports fans, I really mean sometimes we talk about what sports are. What are sports?) so that pretty much limits the reasons they should be down here. No offense, Champaign-Urbana,...
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Davanti Enoteca
Funnily enough, I just mentioned Davanti in my last post! We really did wait 2.5 hours. Not joking. We’ve gone back numerous times, for brunch and dinner since then because we love it so much.
The food is simple and delicious. We typically order a handful of the same things whenever we go because they’re just so yummy.
Eggplant Spread:
Ligurian focaccia. This is one of two...
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Nana's
You can usually tell how good a place is by how far you’re willing to drive to get there and how long you will wait to be seated. For example, there was one night in the middle of winter where we decided to go to Davanti Enoteca on Taylor Street. The drive itself was close to 40 minutes with traffic from the snow and poor weather. Then we proceeded to wait another two and a half hours to be...
