Market Report: Radish Days It’s Not Quite In Full Swing, But Market Season Has Begun It’s radish season at the farmers market, aka the early season. Those candy-colored spice-balls are not for everyone, but if you cook them [...] Ari LeVaux \ May 29, 2014 Read More (CC BYLa Grande Farmers' Market)
Flash In The Pan: Lawnicide How To Kill Your Grass When Michelle Obama converted part of her lawn into a garden six years ago, she made it look easy. And lawn killing certainly [...] Ari LeVaux \ May 08, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Mekong Ramen House The Asian Variety At Mekong Ramen House If you go to Mekong Ramen House expecting a Japanese-style big city ramen experience, then geography might not be your strong suit.The Mekong [...] Ari LeVaux \ Apr 24, 2014 Read More
Flash In The Pan: The Rhythm Of The Garden A New Book Explores The Poetry Of Growing Things With the days getting longer and seed catalogs replacing holiday cards in the mailbox, a gardener’s thoughts inevitably turn to that blank patch [...] Ari LeVaux \ Apr 24, 2014 Read More
Have Fork Will Travel: Ojo Caliente The Artesian Restaurant At Ojo Caliente Any restaurant that allows one to eat in a bathrobe automatically gains a star in my book. It may be the easiest star [...] Ari LeVaux \ Apr 10, 2014 Read More
Boxed And Blended: The Art Of Cheap Wine Snobbery The Art Of Cheap-Wine Snobbery I know a good wine when I taste it, but I’ll drink mediocre wine if it’s in front of me, next to some [...] Ari LeVaux \ Apr 03, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Kim Long Asian Cuisine Kim Long Asian Cuisine The neon sign above the door may read “Asian Cuisine,” but Kim Long, on San Pedro just north of I-40, is Vietnamese to [...] Ari LeVaux \ Mar 27, 2014 Read More
Food For Thought: Common Ground In The Gmo Debate? Let’s At Least Use Our Inside Voices The debate on GM food has gotten interesting of late, in that both sides seem to be having their moments of speaking rather [...] Ari LeVaux \ Mar 06, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Pho 79 Pho 79 The seven-month-old Pho 79 shares a building with the lively and low-rent Motel 76. The building is on an industrial stretch of Candelaria, [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 27, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Taj Mahal Cuisine Of India Taj Mahal Cuisine Of India Like its namesake, Taj Mahal Cuisine of India is housed in a large structure. The south entrance, extended by a snazzy canopy, juts [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 13, 2014 Read More