Paper Palate

The Washington City Paper media department reported on March 3 that the Washington Post may be getting rid of their Wednesday Food & Dining section in favor of combining it with the Health and Home sections and running this mixed “lifestyle” section three times a week.
There is also talk of adding coverage of spirituality […]

I get a lot of catalogs, and surprise, surprise, many of them relate to food and cooking.
Which means, that even though I have only ordered one item from Williams-Sonoma in the past five years, I am still getting their catalogs regularly. (I ordered a wafflemaker, which was exclusive to WS, because it was the most […]

I have been reading Cook’s Illustrated for years now, and though I seldom use any of their recipes anymore (they tend to be very basic dishes that I can cook with my eyes shut), I still read the magazine. I am always interested in their product reviews, because their very methodical, somewhat obessive testing approach […]

I think that we are onto something with the idea of healthy hedonism.
It may send our more puritannical anti-pleasure brethren in this country into a tizzy, but, so be it. Bring it on.
This is the kind of culture war I am up for.
I’m armed and ready with a saute pan in one […]

First things first: if you don’t like spicy food, then this magazine is not for you.
Chile Pepper is about as niche as niche can be when it comes to food magazines, since it pretty much focuses on chile peppers and the foods that they make fiery, though there are also the occasional forays into […]

There is a reason why I am neither a chef nor a chef-owner of a restaurant.
Washington Post staffer Korin Miller pegged it in her story, “Love on the Back Burner.”
Chefs work so hard, and so much, that they not only tend to have no social lives, but they are also often left lonely and without […]

I have always been a believer that the more a person enjoys her food, the more likely she is to derive more nutrients from it. I agree that such a philosophy sounds simplistic and way too sensible to be widely accepted by most Americans, but I cannot help but feel as if our collective […]

Frank Bruni notes in the introductory entry of his new blog, Diner’s Journal, that he eats out as often as seven nights a week, sometimes even twice in one night. While that may sound like a blissfully idle existence to some, such a life obviously nets Bruni a great deal of information, which he intends […]

Edna Lewis, long the grand dame of Southern food and cooking, died quietly at her home in Decatur, Georgia, yesterday. The granddaughter of a former slave, Miss Lewis redefined Southern cooking through her many cookbooks, and was respected and loved by generations of cooks, readers, restaurant goers and chefs. In 1999, she was awarded […]

It sounds like the plot of a feel-good movie.
It feels like the American Dream writ large and illustrated in full technicolor brilliance.
It is the New York City restaurant, “Colors:” a multi-cultural phoenix arising from the ashes of 9/11 to soar on the wings of its worker-owners, into the consciousness of the nation.
This Saturday, […]