PDX Food Dude

I like tech stuff, but I worry about the day when our robot overlords deny us our daily ration. Not a big deal yet, but when the coffee-making robots come, hundreds of baristas will be marching in the streets. But for now, who cares?! At this San Francisco restaurant, the food is entirely made by robots. If you like watching machines, you'll like this Rube Golberg device. Here … [Read more...] about Burger Robots Outperform Humans

Jonathan Gold, long-time Los Angeles food critic has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.In 2006, writer Nancy Rommelmann introduced me to Jonathan Gold at a Portland conference. I had no idea who he was, but was impressed by two things; that Nancy seemed happy to see him, and he was the opposite of pretentious. My conversation with him later that day reinforced … [Read more...] about Pulitzer Prize winning Restaurant Critic Jonathan Gold dies

Pondering your lunch order? Those of you who have a queasy stomach may want to pass on this story. Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina, features an Exotic Meat Month every April. The restaurant adds menu items like wild boar, elk burgers, turtle, alligator, python, scorpion, a camel burger, and bug ice cream. I can hear most of you saying, "What's the big … [Read more...] about Presenting the Tarantula Burger and More!