Last week I was reading through my feeds and paid special attention to Ruhlman, being that I was about to meet him and all, and he mentioned that he was getting a store through a new online shopping service called Open Sky.  Since I follow anything...

Print is dead. It's true because Anthony Bourdain said it and used my website as an example.   I wasn't going to talk very much about this whole thing, not wanting to be all "look at me I'm so cool" and so on and so forth, but a few people have asked...

 When I expressed interest in covering the Fabulous Food Show in Cleveland, the very nice people at the airport Marriott (thanks Andi!) invited me to stay with them for their Hell's Kitchen weekend and grand opening of their new restaurant, Amp 150,...

I know, it sounds simply horrid, doesn't it?  That's what I thought, too, when Thomas Keller mentioned (at Cleveland's Fabulous Food Show) it was something his mother used to make when he was a child. "It's actually a very nice dish" said Mr. Keller....

It's no secret I love Anthony Bourdain.  Kitchen Confidential is a rite of passage for anyone in the restaurant industry, and the Nasty Bits is one of the best collections of essays of any sort.  Bourdain's writing is tough, honest, and brutal. It's...