Week of Eating In Days Six and Seven: Making Food in Madison
1 Mar 2010

Week of Eating In Days Six and Seven: Making Food in Madison

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Ditching the blizzard in New York and being delayed twice thanks to frost on the planes, I finally arrived in Madison, Wisconsin Friday evening, well-fed from my carry-on meal. I was picked up at the airport by Jonny Hunter of the Underground Food Collective, and from that point on, taken on a whirlwind tour of one of the most inspiring food destinations I’ve been. It was also at this point that I decided to let things happen as they may … Read More

Week of Eating In Days Four and Five: To Travel and Not Eat Out
27 Feb 2010

Week of Eating In Days Four and Five: To Travel and Not Eat Out

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That is the question. It is quite possibly the most perplexing thing about not eating out. We live in a culture that travels a lot — whether it’s just a twenty-minute commute to work each day in a car or perpetually being “between” two coasts, or countries, by plane. I wonder about our wandering if it isn’t the reason why take-out or fast food was created in the first place. Eric Schlosser certainly makes a causality seem logical in his … Read More

Reason for Not Eating Out #31: Because Supper Clubs are Blowing Up
30 Apr 2009

Reason for Not Eating Out #31: Because Supper Clubs are Blowing Up

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Last week, I received half a dozen emails from various supper clubs I’d signed up for the mailing lists of. Each dinner sounded more delectable than the one before: roasted local grass-fed goat loin chops with farro-spinach salad and sweet onion soubise, kombu cured fluke with yuzu, brown butter, wakame and preserved nori, a dinner with a puppetry theatre accompaniment, an Argentinian asado of grilled offal, a backyard barbecue of grilled flank steak with chimicurri and chorizo. And the list … Read More