With her pixyish hair and lithe physique, Adrienne Inskeep may look like Peter Pan, but the chef of Siam Society, the restaurant she owns with her husband, Paul Van Slyke, is absolutely grounded; by her own admission, perhaps too.“I am definitely a taskmaster, and almost to a fault,” says the 26-year-old, who since opening the Thai establishment last October in an historic … [Read more...] about Interview: Chef Adrienne Inskeep
Food Writing Archive
This category could be about anything having to do with food: Food Haiku, Limericks, Contests, Essays, Trips down memory line, musings about life... whatever strikes my fancy, and doesn't fit into the other categories
Cheese and the Seasons
You might notice that you aren't seeing as much local artisan cheese in stores the past few months. Winter months divulge cheese-making secrets: it’s a seasonal activity. Goat and cow milk production naturally follows seasonal cycles, waning in the fall and winter and escalating in the spring and summer after pregnancies and spring births have stimulated milk production. We … [Read more...] about Cheese and the Seasons
White Pecan Balls
I have always been the baker; I baked jam tarts for my dollies; I baked cookies for my brother and his friends when they were teenagers and had the munchies; I bake everyone their birthday cake and was given a plaque from my daughter's grade school for baking every month for seven years.You might surmise this is compulsion is borne of generosity; perhaps, but it is also … [Read more...] about White Pecan Balls
The Pitfalls of Reviewing Restaurants
Think it's easy to be a restaurant reviewer? Nancy Rommelmann has a few words on the topic I began my journalistic career as a reviewer of bars, a job that drew the drooling envy of my friends, and more comments than I can count along the lines of “I can’t believe that you get paid to drink!” Then, as people turned thirty, paired up and had kids, I noticed less envy, more … [Read more...] about The Pitfalls of Reviewing Restaurants
Burger Rush
If you’ve been reading this site from the beginning, you’ve read some of my stories about how obsessed I was with food from my earliest days. I don’t remember a lot about my childhood, but the memories I do have all seem to be related my pursuit of "good" food.When I was 12 I lived in Palos Verdes, a hilly peninsula on the south side of Los Angeles. I loved to bicycle, but … [Read more...] about Burger Rush