Contributed by Christopher Garrison Even when I’m on a diet, I can rarely turn down a warm donut. I don’t know if it’s the sugary outside or the warm fluffy inside – probably a combination of both – but when the offer is extended, I never have just one. Maybe it’s my inner fat kid [...]

Every once in a while, I manage to snap a decent picture of food. This usually happens when I’m near a window on a sunny day, and I have something upon which to rest my phone (yes, I have come very close to dropping my iPhone in my water glass many times). This pretty little [...]

This is going to be very good and very bad at the same time: the third metro area Oklahoma Joe’s location is set to open just a few blocks from the place where Jeff and I spend about eight hours a day, five days a week. It will be good because I’m going to PUT [...]

I bet you didn’t know that Woodyard BBQ makes a pork salad. Well, that’s because it doesn’t. But I do! Yesterday my lady friends wanted to get together at Woodyard in Kansas City, KS. I figured since Anthony Bourdain (who lives in New York) had been, and I (a barbeque-loving resident of KCK) had not, [...]

I suspected I was mispronouncing it as the syllables stumbled from my mouth — a fact confirmed by the bartender’s boisterous (but good-natured) ridicule. Perhaps if I’d finished culinary school, I would have known it was not pronounced “pan bag not.” But I did not, so I did not. Fortunately, I was on my second [...]

It’s no secret that I pretty much hate the suburbs. I don’t hate the people who live in them, of course, or even that people live in them; they’re just not for me (though I have recently developed an affinity for Fairway and Westwood in eastern Johnson County). I also hate that someone or something [...]

In a pine nut shell (keep reading for the reference): the food is good, the decor is over the top and the service is uncomfortably formal. It’s good, but gimmicky. First, the food (if you can make it past the stream-of-consciousness concepting blabber that is the intro to the menu): Everything we had was really [...]