Here's a revelation for you folks reading this: I pay for my own food. In my last three plus years of doing the professional food writing gig, I've spoken to a few dozen people who do the same thing as I do and discovered that whatever they eat out for work, it comes out of... Continue Reading →
Grocery Store Coffee Break: Blue Bottle, Stumptown and High Brew
If you want to catch me taking a break, you'll more than likely find me at the grocery store rather than a coffee shop. See, grocery stores have a one up on coffee shops: I can peruse the aisles before settling in with a prepackaged brew on the patio. Here are a few favorites.One is Blue... Continue Reading →
I’d stop drinking coffee, but I’m no quitter
One of my resolutions for 2011 was to start drinking coffee black. Straight up. No cream. No sugar. No flavored anything. Drink coffee like I meant it. Ever since I've been drinking coffee, my morning brew of choice is Folgers. Unfortunately, drinking Folgers sans sugar and flavored creamer has revealed some fatal flaws -- namely... Continue Reading →
Super-Leaded please with two lumps
You know things are starting to fall apart when you wake up one morning in a shock, rush to make coffee and accidentally forget to add the coffee grounds resulting in brewed hot water. Other times have resulted in coffee grounds all over the floor resulting in an impromptu early floor mopping. And yet another... Continue Reading →
My Burning Kitchen... on the road 