"My aunt Sarah says it's in our blood, an innate need to tell a story through food. 'Buela says it's definitely a blessing, magic. That my food doesn't just taste good, it is good—straight up bottled goodness that warms you and makes you feel better about your life." With the Fire on High by ...
In Cold Blood’s Last Meal
Interview: Game of Thrones Cocktails
A water balloon filled with a red cocktail, slit to spill blood like The Red Wedding. A burning rosemary sprig represents the mercy arrow Jon shoots through Mance Rayder. These are just a few elements that make Game of Thrones Cocktails such an interesting project. The Cincinnati duo comprises ...
Novel Nights: Steinbeck’s Cannery Row in Monterey
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream...its inhabitant are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody." A lot has changed in Monterey since John ...
Bilbo’s Sweet Potato & Apple Galette
“[Bilbo] had a horrible thought that the cakes might run short, and then he—as the host…might have to go without.” If there’s one thing I know from twenty years of Tolkien nerdom, it’s that hobbits like to eat. After all, they were the ones who decided that breakfast and lunch were too far apart ...