I spent most Tuesdays this summer watching the show MasterChef, where home chefs compete to become a Gordon Ramsey-dubbed “culinary master” for a large chunk of change, and a cookbook deal. The show was okay – interesting enough to hold my attention most Tuesday nights, but not dynamic enough to…
The other day I drained a can of Del Monte petite diced tomatoes in the sink. Seems rather benign, right? Something caught my eye in the colander. A speck of black in a sea of red…a shape that didn’t quite look tomato-like, and possible not even made of organic matter…
What happens when you mix three professional chefs with dull knives, dust storms, giant sub-zero rooms with ice floors, and kicking cows? Extreme Chef, that’s what. Maybe I simply didn’t pay attention during the promos, or perhaps the show didn’t deliver as promised. But, any way you slice it, the…
Ahhh, the beach. Relaxing days lazily flipping through magazines, or the latest novel your best friend just finished. An even tan, golden, maybe a little rosy across your cheeks. Hair bleached just around your face, kissed from the sun. Quiet dinners surf-side with a glass of crisp, cool wine — or…
Heather is the founder of (cool) progeny where her use of parentheses in a blog title is almost as (cool) as mine. I met her online in 2010—we started our blogs and jumped into Twitter at just about the same time. Call it cosmic or whatever … our personalities just synced. Oddly,…
This week, you’ll get to enjoy guest posts from some of my blogger friends – the theme? Summertime childhood food memories. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do! I met Chad Thomas Johnston at a little place called #DessertIsland (a fictional writers’ island for all you Tweeps out…