May 2006 Downtown
Krause Dining will be closing on Saturday, June 24th.
Come In, Kind Spirits
Much of the recent flurry of restaurant activity downtown is occurring on or near Eighth Street.
Writing About Restaurants
I don't write reviews.
Fine Newcomers
Downtown Lawrence is once again experiencing a flurry of restaurant activity.
Lawrence's Most Local Burger
"Please ask where your food comes from, what's in it, how it was made, how it was raised, and we will tell you. That's only fair and we are happy to do it." - Hilary Brown, Local Burger restaurant owner.
Tomato
Facts and lore about our favorite fruit or vegetable.
Ruchi
Each time I've visited Ruchi, I've recklessly overeaten--sweating and crazed--to the point of pain.
Fine dining is a dangerous game
The numbers don't lie; and by the numbers, fine dining is risky business.
Save The Liver!
From this brave new world of food, there is no turning back.
Tortas Jalisco
"Authentic, made fresh from scratch Mexican food including but not limited to tortas, tacos, burritos and dinner platters." -- Tortas Jalisco menu.
A Short History of the Turkey
In the post-war 50s and into the 60s, the mass-production of food was seen as a badge of modernity. The Large White (turkey) fit the program: it grew quickly and produced record weights of breast meat; it was sanitized, removed from the shamble of the barnyard, it was an example of human dominion and American ingenuity.
H5N1
Watch out for the poop.
Vermont Street BBQ
The eating of serious BBQ causes true believers to sweat and swoon and should be undertaken only in a well-chilled room.
Chuck Magerl
Notes from a conversation, March 2004
Whither Greasy Spoon?
The American Heritage dictionary defines a Greasy Spoon as "a small, inexpensive, often unsanitary restaurant."
Long Silence
Busy at my job.
Supermarket Sweep
Are our weather forecasters idiots? Alarmists?
You Are What You Eat
In the past 13 months: E coli in ground beef and alfalfa sprouts; cyclospora in raspberries; hepatitis in green onions and strawberries; Mad Cow; Bad Salmon; and, this week, news of the return of H5N1, avian flu A. Millions of dead chickens in Asia, infected humans, human deaths. Scientists talking pandemic. Is anything safe to eat anymore?
A Contrast In Bovine.
"Garden City, Kan., missed out on the suburban building boom of the postwar years. What it got instead were sprawling subdivisions of cattle. These feedlots -- the nation's first -- began rising on the high plains of western Kansas in the 50's, and by now developments catering to cows are far more common here than developments catering to people."--Michael Pollan, Power Steer.
Mad Cow
Into the whirlwind...
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