Peasant Food the Texas Way: Chicken Fried Steak
Cheap eats are good when made with pride and care. Peasant food is fascinating. At worst it is inedible. By necessity made from humble, common ingredients often of poor quality, when […]
Author Archives: Dwight Furrow
Ciao New Orleans
Tomorrow we leave New Orleans after 10 days of crawfish, boudin, po’boys and a little jazz. This is a great food culture, always interesting whether you’re spending $100 or $10 […]
Missouri Wine Country: History in a Bottle
In Oregon wine country they talk about dirt; in Napa they talk about scores, in Sonoma they talk about why they aren’t Napa. The first thing you hear about when […]
Willamette Valley’s Vintage Tale: a Lesson about Wine Quality
One sign that a winery is dedicated to quality is their willingness to hold back the release of a vintage until it’s ready. Last fall we visited the Willamette Valley […]
The Thai That Blinds: Pok Pok PDX
I’ve got one shot, one night in Portland, and way to many good restaurants from which to choose. A first world problem to be sure but a problem nevertheless—the tyranny […]
Eureka Seeka
We were in Silicon Valley in June, about to head north, and almost all of California was scorching in 100-plus temperatures. Desperately looking for a place to park for a […]
Monterey Bay/Santa Cruz
If vibrant, multicultural San Francisco is not playground enough, it is surrounded by more playgrounds on the coast south of the city. Every Friday afternoon, the cream of corporate America […]
A Dose of Dosa in San Francisco
Food trucks and food carts used to be about fast, cheap food that comes to you—watery coffee, soggy hot dogs, and cold pastries served up by people punching a time […]
If It’s Bakersfield, It’s Basque
I can’t say I spend much time in Bakersfield, CA. It’s a convenient stopover when traveling from socal to norcal and back, but it’s too hot in the summer and […]
San Diego’s Best Restaurant: A Review of Juniper and Ivy
OK. Well that headline is a bit hard to prove—best according to what standard? So let me say something about what a “best restaurant” should be. When I go out […]
Roving Decanter 