food & drink

Houston, We Have Dosai

April 4, 2012
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Thanks to my brand spanking new Ultra Pride+ wet grinder and mom’s dosai batter recipe. It’s 4 cups of Ponni parboiled rice to one cup of urad dal; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Tweet

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If I Have One More Pie A La Mode

December 15, 2010

I’m gonna need my own zip code. Because I’m fat, I’m fat, sha mone. – Fat by Weird Al Yankovic Two nicely-written opinions on America’s love-hate relationship with body fat. Despite the crazy amount of travel and delicious baked goods on my schedule this time of year, I’ve managed to fend off the Christmas 10. [...]

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How Guinness Is Made

December 5, 2010

The exhibits and layout of the Guinness Brewery tour have changed since we were there last six years ago. Each ingredient is highlighted appropriately and the walk is a lot more logical. I approve Here’s a collage of some pictures I took on the tour. Starting from the bottom left and running clockwise: the mix [...]

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Next Up: The St. James’s Gate Brewery Tour

December 4, 2010

Where some rather brilliant people make and store Guinness. For now, this is all you need to know. Tweet

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The Secret Bar At Kelly’s Hotel

December 4, 2010

Also known as “The Not So Secret Bar” at Kelly’s Hotel in the heart of Dublin. It felt a lot like the upstairs at Elizabeth’s restaurant in the Bywater of New Orleans. All the way from the little American hipsters hanging out in the various high-ceilinged rooms to the Neville Brothers and Killer’s favorite Professor [...]

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Guinness Quality Team: Activate!

November 13, 2010

Behold, lasses, an Irish Harp. Not just any Irish harp, but one in the Guinness Brewery and Museum, to which this jumpin’ party returns. Off to Ireland for a week. Expect bloodcurdling tales of Guinness and Jameson on my return. Feel free to keep up over at the ever-entertaining donnybrook that is Twitter in the [...]

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Day 60 Until It’s Gone

June 18, 2010

I think of Gulf oysters now and start to fret and crave them more than ever before. For someone who would get nausea on the mere mention of fish and shellfish as a child, raw oysters with hot sauce and fried oyster po’ boys are now a sublime delicacy and this is thanks to the [...]

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RIP Ron Zappe

June 2, 2010

Ron Zappe, founder of Zapp’s Potato Chips, dies of throat cancer at 67 … his four companies went bankrupt during the 1980s oil bust and he moved from Houston to Louisiana and started a potato chip business. … Mr. Zappe bought the former Faucheux Chevrolet dealership in Gramercy where he began making a thicker-cut, kettle-fried [...]

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Crawfish Monster Angry

May 20, 2010

The latest release from the murky head of Michael Homan (not to be confused with Tête d’Adrastos): GEAUXJIRA! Director’s note: “As we made our movie, thousands of barrels of oil leaked every day on the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, causing the biggest environmental disaster in our lifetime. Moreover, we’re terrified about the ramifications the oil [...]

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Veggie/Vegan Restaurants In NOLA?

April 26, 2010

The Chaister will be visiting New Orleans two times in the next six weeks. Yes, I am so incredibly jealous! As a very strict vegan, she wants to know where to eat. Omnivore here doesn’t have this problem, but I do recall it was very hard to find restaurants in NOLA for my fanatically vegetarian [...]

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