The Good Stuff – Music by Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith has a powerhouse voice belting out pop lyrics in “Picking Up the Pieces,” where she explores the struggle of living with the shadow of a lover’s ex. Backed by spectacular strings and gospel singers, the song thrums with a retro-60s atmospheric wall of sound contained in a rhythmic cage. With this track, I can’t help but think that Adele’s... Read More
The Good Stuff – Music by 2:54
London-based siblings Colette and Hannah Thurow front this darkly atmospheric U.K. band with the numeric moniker 2:54. Their debut album 2:54 is due out June 5, 2012 on the Fat Possum label. Read More Read More
EBT Restaurant
Recently, EBT Restaurant General Manager Adam Horner invited me and a few other folks to sample dishes from the menu updated by Chef Tate Roberts. Read More Read More
The Good Stuff – Red Mesa Grill
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The Cost of Content
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Springtime Cooking Class for KC Home and Gardens Magazine
The Kitchen Design Studio at Nebraska Furniture Mart was roped off for Kansas City Home and Garden magazine’s March Cooking School. Cowtown Cheesecake owner Chef Terry Mille and I prepared a light, fresh four-course menu for the season — using lots of ingredients from local vendors — with recipes for guests to take home. Somerset Ridge co-owner Cindy Reynolds paired... Read More
Songkran – Thai New Year
A few years ago, I wrote about my April 2006 trip to Thailand in a two-part series for PresentMagazine.com, the online publication I used to co-publish and edit with Pam Taylor. Today, I just remembered that Thailand is celebrating Songkran, a national holiday and festival for Thai New Year that runs from April 12-15. April 13 is observed as the Thai New Year marked by a water... Read More
Cooking, Eating, Philosophizing – A Hunger Game
Lately, I’ve been reading Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food written by Colman Andrews (Gotham Books, 2010). The book is an informative (and over-the-top, at times) read for those interested in cuisine and one of the industry’s notable names. The book fixates on El Bulli restaurant owner and chef Ferran Adrià, but it also examines the... Read More
Few Good Men
Sometimes I get song lyrics whirling around in my head. Lyrics that I’ve written with a tune in mind. But I’m not a musician or a singer so I don’t know how to make the song come to life. The results is song lyrics without music. Or bad poetry. See if any music comes to you when reading these lyrics in a Merle Haggard / Waylon Jennings country sort of mind. This... Read More
Mint Pea Soup with Mint Whipped Cream and Spring Salad
Last night, Terry Mille of CowTown Cheesecake and I prepared a four-course meal as a demonstration cooking class for guests. The event was sponsored by Kansas City Home & Gardens Magazine and held at Nebraska Furniture Mart’s demonstration kitchen. The menu featured mint pea soup with mint whipped cream; salad of spring greens from Gibbs Road Farm (thanks Cultivate KC),... Read More
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