I’ve claimed for many years that one of America’s great cuisines, the gorgeous Creole/Cajun mashup that is New Orleans cooking, doesn’t travel well. Trying to reproduce its flavors outside the swampy lowlands of Louisiana just doesn’t work. It’s like traveling with a $3000 suitcase. It’s looks beautiful at first, but one long flight and it’s beat to hell … Continue reading “Bywater on Broadway- Po Boys Done Good”
I received terrible news this morning. My beloved Doughbot will be closing in August. Unlike most restaurant closings however, this isn’t due to lack of business, or lawsuits, or partnership disputes, or any of the myriad ways small businesses, especially restaurants, can be struck by struck by figurative lightning (including literal lightning). Â No, per their … Continue reading “The Death of Craft: Hard Work Sucks”
Quick background: I wrote a piece a bit ago about newly opened Mother restaurant. It was one of the few pieces in town that didn’t sing its praises like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir all hopped up on whatever Mormons are allowed to drink. It had its share of snark (that is our mainstay y’know), its … Continue reading “On Flavorful Food and Spicy Writing”
It may come as a surprise to you, but the small restaurant footprint on J at 20th has gone through three iterations in the last few years. I know, you didn’t even notice. You were totally unaware that a place named “Had’s” strolled in there in 2011 and was gone by Inauguration Day. And honestly, … Continue reading “Tank House-Dumb Name, Rad Grub”
Because I only saw a few mentions of this on local Twitter feeds, I present to you a clip from last week’s episode of the ABC sitcom “Happy Endings” which featured gag about a (fictional) un-aired season of “Real World: Sacramento” on which “the gang first got together.” Copious shots of the Sacto skyline, but … Continue reading “ABC sitcom features “Real World: Sacramento””
GreenBeet has a ticket to the gun show apparently. Congratulations are in order for part-time Sac Rag author, GreenBeet (@AwakeAtTheWhisk), as she made CBS Sacramento’s recent list of 10 Best Sacramento Foodies To Follow On Twitter. It’s hard not to love a foodie with the witty name “Awake at the Whisk.” Amber describes herself as … Continue reading “GreenBeet makes top 10 list”
Cooking great fish in Sacramento with Hank Shaw and Mickey Melchiondo.
Sacramento’s booze fans have been rallying behind local moustachioed mixmaster Andrew Calisterio in Hangar One’s California Tour cocktail contest. He currently has twice as many votes as all other cometetors, but I encourage you to click on his page and vote TODAY (the last day of the contest). Why? Because Sacramento was snubbed in the … Continue reading “Mixologist muddling the competition”
Where in Sacramento is the best grilled cheese sandwich?
I noticed two different menus last week from two different, unaffiliated dining establishments that listed different ingredients as “local,” (my use of quotation marks, it didn’t say “”local”” on the menu (meaning it didn’t say “local” with only one set of quotation marks, I added the second to refer to the fact that I was … Continue reading “Is it Local If…..”
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