How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer. Here are a few of our guesses, add yours to the comment box below: – Karl Malden spittoon. – Renaissance-Fair-Ready earthenware glug-chugger. – “Mr. Saddy” suicide…
In the end, we get what’s coming to us. Let’s hope it’s sweet. Like Chanel No. 5, a bracelet from Tiffany’s, or Chuck Norris, a good brand name can pack a punch when it comes to impressing those we love. And, when it comes to name-brand sweet treats for Valentine’s…
Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help. We’re reviewing the most delectable and dreadful with a handy, must-see schedule so you won’t miss a thing. Well, once again, the commercials during the Super…
Molecular gastronomy (not the after-effect of eating too many black bean, spicy sausage and cheese nachos) is a scientific discipline that studies the physical and chemical processes that occur while cooking. In this seven-part series, we’re using our love of food and Carl Sagan to create molecular masterpieces of deliciousness…
Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help. We’re reviewing the most delectable and dreadful with a handy, must-see schedule so you won’t miss a thing. Are you ready for some football? KISS is…
The Chow Bella staff can’t stay out of the kitchen. In anticipation of the Super Bowl, we’ve used our culinary talents to compete in a showdown of dips. After Jonathan’s heart-stopping, Nothing Left to Lose Beer Cheese, Claire’s family-fancy, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Artichoke Dip, Claire’s flurry of Curry Some…
Selleck, sandwich and a waterfall, that’s the site, yeah, that is all. Just Selleck, sandwich and a waterfall. Waterfalls are pretty, sandwiches chunky, add some Selleck and you’ve got hunky. Here’s the link, now get there fast, ’cause everything’s better with a Selleck mustache. http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/…
Fishermen, power-line workers, and loggers may be a few of the deadliest jobs in America, but the list falls short in not mentioning artist Eric Finzi. Far from being a smock-sporting, beret-bearing paintbrush pusher, Finzi dons a hazmat suit and keeps syringes, propane torches, and toxic mediums at the ready…
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? At 7 a.m., my good friend and Day Drinker play date, Ronda, pulled alongside my car in the Ox Sports Bar parking lot, tucked behind a Circle K on 32nd Street. We were trying…
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? Can you tell a melon baller from a cookie scoop? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer. Here are a few of our guesses, add yours to the comment box below: – Remote…
With the rigors of the morning workday including pointless meetings, office gossip and hours on Facebook, who wants to be greeted at noontime by a sad, stain-ridden paper sack whose food contents reflect the imagination of those in the HR department? It is possible to create tasty, thrifty, tidy, too-fun…
In the end, we get what’s coming to us. Let’s hope it’s sweet. Let’s face it, folks: Valentine’s Day, when it comes to that special someone, is as much about love as it is about the possibility of some horizontal hokey-pokey. So why do we get all Ron Jeremy with…
Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help. We’re reviewing the most delectable and dreadful with a handy, must-see schedule so you won’t miss a thing. Once again, the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, treated…
Molecular gastronomy (not the after-effect of eating too many black bean, spicy sausage and cheese nachos) is a scientific discipline that studies the physical and chemical processes that occur while cooking. In this seven-part series, we’re using our love of food and Carl Sagan to create molecular masterpieces of deliciousness…
Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help. We’re reviewing the most delectable and dreadful with a handy, must-see schedule so you won’t miss a thing. Maybe when you’re a 68-year old business magnate,…
The Mac Snack Wrap Rap (to the tune of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s, “Baby Got Back”) I like Big Macs and I can not lie, you other eaters can’t deny, that when a burger comes in with a big, fat taste, and nothin’ to waste, you get sprung, wanna pull out your…
Like Two and a Half Men (first airdate: 2003), “Weird Al” Yankovic (debut record: 1984), and kicks to the groin (um, forever), some forms of entertainment have been around a lot longer than you’d think. And though their debatably humorous offerings are predictable, there’s a comfort in knowing what to…
Oh, Amazon. Sure, you’ve made book buying convenient, but the experience is as bland and predictable as a James Patterson novel. We love the aroma of publications past, the stacks of colorful book spines, and the sound of shuffling pages. You give us the Kindle? Please. Thankfully, for those of…
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? Pulling up to Harvey’s Wineburger for the bar’s 10:30 opening on a sunny morning feels a lot like seeing a charming old friend: the red and purple crown on the sign by the road;…
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? Can you tell a melon baller from a cookie scoop? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer. Here are a few of our guesses, add yours to the comment box below: – Nemo…
In the end, we get what’s coming to us. Let’s hope it’s sweet. Valentine’s Day (or Saint Valentine’s Day) is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by lovers expressing their affection for each other through gifts of sappy cards, gas-station flowers, clichéd jewelry, lingerie, and George Foreman grills. Hold the…
Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help. We’re reviewing the most delectable and dreadful with a handy, must-see schedule so you won’t miss a thing. If there’s one thing we need to get…
