Restaurant Review: Yasmine’s Café Yasmine’s Café Yasmine’s Café has gone through several changes of ownership in the dozen years it’s been open. Depending on who you ask, these changes [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 05, 2015 Read More Lentil soup (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Flash In The Pan: Beefing About Beef The Grass Vs. Grain Debate Rages On The prevailing rhetoric coming from the environmental, dietary and vegetarian communities paints cattle as agents of personal and planetary demise. From both ends [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 29, 2015 Read More ( George Routledge and Sons )
Restaurant Review: Kokoro Japanese Restaurant Kokoro Japanese Restaurant Returns To Albuquerque The Japanese word kokoro translates loosely into something between heart, soul and feeling. It’s an ambitious, humble and entirely fitting name for the [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 22, 2015 Read More
Flash In The Pan: Tofu Doesn’t Suck In Defense Of The Bean Curd I’ll spare you the un-gory details, but it wasn’t the greatest hunting season for me this fall. I try to bag enough animals [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 15, 2015 Read More ( via Wikimedia Commons )
Restaurant Review: Taste Of Himalayas The Inconsistent Authenticity Of Taste Of Himalayas There’s a Nepali dish on the menu of Taste of Himalayas that appears to be there only for show. It’s called samayabajee and [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 08, 2015 Read More
Restaurant Review: Pop-Up Dumpling House Pop-Up Dumpling House The noodle bar and Asian deli at Talin are long gone. There are glass canisters of tea stacked on top of the ovens [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 01, 2015 Read More Pork belly sandwich (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Flash In The Pan: You Say Hominy, We Eat Posole Dig Into A Traditional New Mexican Dish In the kitchen of a snow-covered cabin in northern Montana, a lonely, gallon-sized can of hominy sits on a high shelf. My hunting [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 01, 2015 Read More (Ari LeVaux)
Flash In The Pan: Fat Is Flavor Science Reveals New Truths About How Our Body Reacts To Fats The holidays and the accompanying onslaught of rich feasts present a timely opportunity to think about fat, and there is much to consider [...] Ari LeVaux \ Dec 18, 2014 Read More ( CoralBrowne )
Flash In The Pan: Mother Of Nog Why Not Try Your Holiday Favorite Year-Round? The French didn’t earn a reputation for culinary sensibility by accident. One example that comes to mind this time of year—and one in [...] Ari LeVaux \ Dec 11, 2014 Read More ( izik )
Flash In The Pan: Indians, Pilgrims And Pudding But Not In That Order You probably got the memo that Thanksgiving, as it is currently celebrated, is a far cry from what probably transpired at the original [...] Ari LeVaux \ Nov 27, 2014 Read More Tapioca coconut pumpkin pudding