AltWeeklies Wire
How to Boil Water... and Other Good Thingsnew
Well it’s that time of year again... a time to watch the parade and enjoy all its revelries, and also an opportunity to eat corned beef-and-cabbage. It’s a simple recipe to prepare and one that tastes delicious with beer.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
03-12-2010 |
Food+Drink
Where are the Beers of Yesteryear?new
Buffalo got an unexpected boost in 2007 when Labatt USA moved its headquarters to Key Bank Tower. Although city officials didn’t know of the move until it was announced, Mayor Byron Brown was there at the grand opening.
Artvoice |
Buck Quigley |
03-12-2010 |
Food+Drink
Fruitcake, That Traditional Holiday Brick, Need Not Be Inedible: Try This Onenew
There's only one fruitcake in the entire world, right? Wrong. Here’s a recipe for an entirely edible fruitcake, made more delicious with a side serving of creole whiskey sauce, and some egg nogg to wash it down.
Artvoice |
Katherine O'Day |
12-18-2009 |
Food+Drink
Chowder & Gumbo: Kissing Cousinsnew
Gumbo is the younger of the two, but both stem from the same family tree. These two recipes are, in essence, the story of the people who originally made them. And in the same way that someone may start a family tree at the present and work backwards, that's sometimes the logical way to do culinary research. With recipes for: Potato Chowder, New England Clam Chowder, and Shrimp, Sausage, and Okra Gumbo.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
11-03-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: food, recipes, Shrimp, and Okra Gumbo, chowder, gumbo, New England Clam Chowder, Potato Chowder, Sausage
The Simple Joys of Comfort Foodnew
A few days ago I awoke to find that I had a cold. It was my own fault, I thought, for burning the candle at both ends and leaving myself susceptible. Intuitively I craved comfort food: soup, maybe some bread. With recipes.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
10-06-2008 |
Food+Drink
(General) Tso What?new

General Tso (Zuo Zontang 1812-1885) was a real general, but it's doubtful he or his personal chef had anything to do with the creation of this dish. Includes recipe.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
09-22-2008 |
Food+Drink
Does Champagne Earn the Hype?new
No alcoholic beverage has been more romanticized, but does champagne deserve all the celebration?
Artvoice |
Paula Paradise |
06-06-2008 |
Food+Drink
Meet Richard Price: Electrotechnologist, Purveyor of Rare Flowers, Famous For His Heirloom Tomatoesnew

Price could be known for many things. Among other things, he's a talented singer; an accomplished portrait photographer; a home brewer of beers, ciders, and wines; an experienced electrotechnologist in genetics; a green thumb; a do-it-yourselfer and traditionalist. In fact, it's mostly by a strange turn of plant evolution that he's come to be known, informally, as "the tomato man."
Artvoice |
Peter Koch |
05-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Chives: A Sign of Springnew

Along with onions, garlic, and other pungent shoots and bulbs -- oddly including asparagus -- chives are part of the allium, or lily, family. Includes recipes for Chive and White Bean Hummus and Pan Roast Salmon with Chive Beurre Blanc.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
05-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
From Haiti to Laos, People Are Starvingnew

Our food production and distribution networks are intertwined with mindboggling complexity. People across the world are all showing up hungry at the same global supermarket and bidding against each other for what's left on half-stocked shelves, or locked up in overstocked back rooms. But the playing field isn't level.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
05-12-2008 |
Food+Drink
On the Tradition of Winemakingnew

Nowadays there are so few wines made from estate-grown fruit that it's a bit like finding a four-leaf clover -- but is my admiration for grapes grown, juiced, and fermented by the same individuals justified?
Artvoice |
Paula Paradise |
04-25-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine, winemaking
Amour, Amour, Amaronenew
In honor of Valentine's Day, I propose a toast with an imperfect, traditional and rustic red wine. A deep, broad-shouldered wine with which to contemplate life in the vice of winter, and sounding most like "amour," Amarone appears to me an excellent choice.
Artvoice |
Paula Paradise |
02-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
Greatest White Wine On Earthnew
What follows is my modest plea for sloughing off your comfortable, hand-knitted cardigan of a white—e.g. Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio—for just a few bottles of what might be the greatest white wine on this earth.
Artvoice |
Paula Paradise |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Egalitarian Bubbles & Good Whiskeynew
From mid-November to January 1, those of us in wine retail find our lives tossed upon the high seas.
Artvoice |
Paula Paradise |
12-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
Fruit of the Vinenew
In southern Ontario, a wine region which has grown in leaps and bounds in the past decade is waiting to be discovered.
Artvoice |
Marla Crouse |
08-31-2007 |
Food+Drink