There’s Not Enough Songs About Squash

October 30, 2011

Proper grammar notwithstanding, I know you’re thinking, ” Hey, Paul is dead right; there AREN’T enough songs about squash!” But before you waste a portion of your day trying to scratch out some lyrics for “The  Crookneck Squash Blues”, you might want to take a listen to this song by Australian singer/songwriter Darren Hanlon. Sadly, [...]

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Ba-na-na-na

October 5, 2011

If Beethoven were a baker–and who knows, he may have been–I think this is the banana bread he would have made. In fact, I’ll bet he made himself some banana bread one day and while enjoying a nice warm, buttered slice and pondering the wonderfulness that is the banana, recognized what a fun word banana [...]

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Michael Pollan’s Food Rules #14

September 23, 2011

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. ~Food Rules: An Eater’s Manifesto Reading the ingredients on a food package can be daunting (unless you happen to be a food chemist), disheartening, maddening, and down right scary. In most cases, it’s not possible to imagine what [...]

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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

September 21, 2011

If you can roast a chicken, you can serve dinner to anyone. It’s one of the basic cooking skills every self-respecting cook needs to have in his or her culinary toolbox. This method makes it foolproof.

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Mardi Gras en Mai

April 16, 2011

Mardi Gras en Mai™ Not a place…but a state of mind. The glory of Mardi Gras began long before Europeans set foot in the New World. And while the period of abandon and merriment grew to a modern day pre-Lent spectacle, the Chefs are tweaking the recipe – for a culinary celebration of hard-earned Cleveland [...]

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The Play’s The Thing

March 26, 2011

“Today’s restaurant is theater on a grand scale.” ~Marian Burros The 14th Street Theater was transformed into a dinner theater for Emerging Chefs‘ fifth event: ThEATtrical, featuring Melange co-executive chef, Adam Bostwick. Chef Bostwick became the auteur, spending months creating a menu of allusion to famous food scenes from terrific films such as 9 1/2 Weeks, [...]

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