Last October I wrote with glee about a concoction known to me as “the Fatty Melt.” This monstrosity was composed of a beef patty placed between two grilled cheese sandwiches in lieu of a bun. The photograph itself caused me to gain three pounds and increased my cholesterol significantly. The zeal I felt for the […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Travels in Tacoville
The Search for the Perfect Taco: Part One
A new monthly column dedicated to Portland’s taco trucks and the tacos
they create.
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Hey, Hell’s Kitchen! Suck It!
Photo: Jessica Leeder/The Globe and Mail I’ve been known to watch an episode or two of Hell’s Kitchen. I’m not proud of it. But as the Bible says, “Let those who’ve never suffered bad television judgment throw the first remote.” The thing that captures my attention about Hell’s Kitchen is the manufactured extremity of the […]
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Goodnight, Sweet Dom
Among the many movies my stepfather pirated when I was a kid was Cannonball Run. As a pre-teen, it quickly became one of my favorite movies, most likely due to the bad language, the huge quantities of cleavage, the fast cars, and the fact that my stepfather looked uncannily like Burt Reynolds. Of all the […]
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Everything You Need For Derby Day (Except the Money)
I pointed to the huge grassy meadow enclosed by the track. “That whole thing,” I said, “will be jammed with people; fifty thousand or so, and most of them staggering drunk. It’s a fantastic scene — thousands of people fainting, crying, copulating, trampling each other and fighting with broken whiskey bottles. We’ll have to spend […]
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Tweet Relief?
That title is so precious; I almost gouged my own eyeballs out. I’ve been on Twitter for almost a week now, and I have mixed emotions about it. On one level I find it engaging, like listening to a party line where everyone is just sort of yammering on to everyone and no-one in particular, […]
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Memory Lapse
Forget Pok Pok and Leave Expectations Behind at Ping
Ping is fine for a night out, but don’t expect a full serving of Andy
Ricker’s abilities.
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B. A. Baracus Cures What Ails You!
I’ve been sick for the last few days, and I gotta tell you the whole “So, you have the swine flu?” thing never gets old. Do I have the swine flu? Probably not, but I did share a bottle of champagne with a newly wed couple from San Jose, California, last Saturday on the roof […]
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Food News: Screwed
As a food editor and writer of a weekly column devoted to the variety of comestibles in our fair city, I am occasionally given the opportunity to eat a huge steaming pile of crow. In this week’s Food News section regarding Nate Tilden’s plan to open a house made charcuterie retail shop and wine bar, […]
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Island Time
Taste of Jakarta Puts Indonesia on Your Plate
Don’t be fooled by the plastic flatware—Taste of Jakarta is a
delectable Indonesian journey.
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Food News
Life in Cured Meats
Soon there will be no need to go to Seattle to get local artisan
salumi.
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Grandmothers: Still Relevant!
For a chance to win Taste of the Nation tickets, I asked Blogtownies to send in their favorite childhood food memories. Many of these memories centered on brilliant childhood concoctions, like this one from Blogtownie Ari Douangpanya: Being a latchkey kid, I had to fend for myself after school. Rummaging through the fridge one day, […]