Late last year Kevin Revolinski released an updated version of his 2006 book, Wisconsin Beer Guide: A Travel Companion and retitled it Wisconsin’s Best Beer Guide. Since 2006 there has been so much change in the Wisconsin Brewing industry and that change is reflected in this book. Numerous breweries included (but definitely not limited to) Lakefront, Central […]
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For many Americans the ritual of buying meat is a boring and impersonal ordeal. Everything is in a neat package on display in refrigerated cases. Everything has been cut down into pretty steaks and roasts with no imperfections and no indication that it actually came from a living breathing thing. That seems to be changing, albeit on a very […]
One of my favorite things about this blog is the opportunities I have had to review cookbooks, particularly when they are on my favorite cooking topic, grilling and barbeque. Thus I was extremely excited to get a copy of the “The Kansas City Barbeque Society’s 25th Anniversary Cookbook” by Paul Kirk, Carolyn Wells and Ardie […]
Thanks to the food network and the rise in cooking awareness in general in America the days of the food media using the tired cliché about “going beyond burgers and hot dogs” when describing grilling books are far behind us. People are grilling everything imaginable these days and there seems to be a new grilling […]
Mark Kurlansky – “The Food of a Younger Land” Riverhead Books 2009 Nowadays it’s fashionable to gripe about how bad the food we eat is. From movies like “Supersize Me” and the soon-to-be-released “Food Inc.” to books like “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “Fast Food Nation” it appears America’s hunger for books and movies bashing our […]
Bobby Flay cooks the kind of food I like most. Some people love French cuisine with its storied history and refined technique others like comfort food with recipes that have passed down from generation to generation. I love Southwestern, Tex Mex, and Mexican food, especially when grilled. If its got avocado, jicima, chipotle, cilantro, and […]
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