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When Emily and I started planning a wedding, I was somewhat out of the loop when it came to the daintier details of the wedding. I didn’t have much say in choice of flowers for the centerpieces, nor was I trusted with the task of selecting the vintage cake holders for the dessert table. However, [...]

With Super Bowl week upon us it’s time to start thinking about how to make people full on Super Bowl Sunday. While I have little stake in the winner of the actual game, I do plan on devoting my day to the patriotic act of eating and drinking myself into a coma. I believe I [...]

Before Thanksgiving shows up and I stuff my face with all things poultry and cranberry, I decided to enjoy the wonderful holiday flavors in tube form. Fresh cranberries are in season, that sage plant my lovely red-haired fiance grew all summer is about to become less accessible when it gets covered in a foot of [...]

It’s about damn time I ate some of Alex Pope’s food again. As a few friends and I sat around my living room sipping a bottle of Boulevard Saison Brett in preparation for the Alex Pope beer dinner hosted at Beer Kitchen in Westport on Monday September 17, I reminisced about all of the different [...]

While living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin this past summer in a little cabin alongside a lake, I often gazed out across the water and thought to myself: WWPBD? (What would Paul Bunyan do?) I think I answered the question of what Paul Bunyan would eat for breakfast early on a Wednesday morning. Eight days [...]

Today is the first full day of summer. That has me thinking about ice cream. Next week is the first week Kansas City will be blessed with the opening of Port Fonda, the restaurant. That has me thinking about horchata. For those not in the know, horchata is a nutty rice drink served in Mexico [...]

I usually go to the grocery store in one of two ways. Either I have a detailed list of exactly what I need for a recipe — ingredients and amounts and potentially even brand names — or I will go to the store with a blank slate and just hope I find something inspiring. I [...]

This weekend marks the beginning of summer. Pools open up, the temperature is creeping up, and people all over the country are taking out their grills and firing them up. For me, the 2012 grilling season began on January 1st, but this is the time of year when I get a little more experimental in [...]

There’s a restaurant doing barbecue chicken better than anybody else in the entire metropolitan area and it’s called El Pollo Rey. I think it’s in a barn. It’s tucked away in Armourdale (or Argentine or Rosedale – I never really know the difference), KCK, in a place you might be able to drive by without [...]

I got a phone call not that long ago that began an interesting journey in my kitchen. The call was from a friend and co-worker. I missed his call, but the message went something like this: “Hey dude. My brothers and I just bought a whole pig but it’s too big for our La Caja [...]