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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 [...]

I make the best fried chicken in the world. Or more accurately, Thomas Keller makes the best fried chicken in the world, and I follow his recipe. I know what some of you are saying, “Nuthin’s better than gran’ma’s fried chik’n.” But I hate to break it to you, it’s just not true, no matter [...]

Emily thinks I’m a “food dork” for saying this, but my idea of a perfect Saturday is a morning at the Brookside Farmers’ Market (maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don’t know, I don’t know if we’ll have enough time), an afternoon in the kitchen, and a night eating (and drinking) outside. Last weekend, I [...]

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’ve received some great gifts in my life: 10-speed bike when I was 10, Sony PlayStation at 15, ginormous bottle of Bombay Sapphire at 21, trip to London at 25. But for 32-year-old Jeff, a bag of Good You’s happy-fun-time-magic buns is as good as it gets. (And that’s not at all sad.) When we [...]

I love meat. In fact, I spent the better half of Saturday night gnawing on a pork bone at Emily Farris’ 30th birthday party. But to be honest (as opposed to all this time I’ve been lying to you), I think vegetables can be more interesting than meat. (Just to be clear, I am NOT [...]

There are few things I love more than the smell of Kyle’s beard after he’s been cooking over fire, but this chicken he grilled yesterday is a close second. Once again, my ugly iPhone photography does not do good food justice, but the thighs and wings he grilled/smoked last night were so perfectly crispy and [...]

The first time I ate at Westport Street Fare, I went back for seconds about half an hour after my firsts. My appetite may have been a bit enhanced — a very rare and always disappointing occurrence considering whenever I manage to get to that state one of two things happens: 1) I immediately fall [...]

As a rule, I boycott businesses that misspell words in a misguided attempt to be clever or cute or whatever. But for The Mixx, I make an exxception. To me, that exxtra X just emphasizes how well the salads are mixxed. As another rule, I always, always get the Garden of Eden salad (Granny Smith [...]

I’ve mentioned more than once that  in the time B.K. (Before Kyle — I promise I won’t start using annoying Internet acronyms, just trying this one out for fun) my dinners were more, um, minimal. While I certainly enjoy rich meals featuring large cuts of meat, a bowl of veggies and a glass of wine [...]