(A photographic collage of the scenes in and around the B.T. Smokehouse) Today I am going to share an interview I had with Brian Treitman, a CIA trained chef who has started a Southern Style BBQ place, called B.T’s Smokehouse. He has set this mobile BBQ joint up in the most improbable place, in the parking...

I find the whole chauvinistic “My BBQ is better than yours” shtick we are treated to on various food TV shows and writing to be artless and crude. Food SHOULD be inclusive and NOT exclusive. Food is not about testosterone-laden showmanship, nationalism, or any of those misplaced concepts. Food should not be for a...

  (This post will appear on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network)   Book review of Camilla V. Saulsbury’s Panna Cotta: Italy’s Elegant Custard Made Easy I had never heard of panna cotta before I saw it made on Iron Chef a few years ago. I obviously do not frequent many Italian restaurants,...

[This post appeared on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] (Source: Hoffman Media, click image to go to magazine order page) I watch only a few shows on the Food Network, two of those being Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” and Paula Deen’s “Home Cooking“. I do not watch the “Paula’s Party” show...

I am slowly, ever so slowly, finding stores within a 50 mile radius of where I live that have the ingredients I need to make Colombian and also Japanese foods. The first 30 miles of that travel is through a foodie wasteland so don’t be impressed with the distance I travel for food...

While shopping at my membership shop-o-world-a-ramma, I could NOT restrain myself from buying some truly massive cuts of meat. I got this pork loin that was as tall as my 3 year old, no kidding. As a consequence, when I strolled past the cookbook isle, pushing my straining cart and skipping over the trail...

(The making of a lechona – latino pig roast)As a judge for the 2006 Food Blog Awards I had to to look at and evaluate a HUGE number of food blogs.I read so much filling prose, I saw so much beautiful photography.I came very near to catastrophy. Around 11:30 or so last night, after debating various...

Christmas in Colombia is QUITE a production. Its not just one or two days like here in the US and it can be exhausting if you are not used to partying constantly for a better part of some 15 days, day and night after day and night. ...

(Clockwise from top left: changua, arepa with queso blanco, pan de bono, and patacones – Copyright © 2006 Nika Boyce) A Colombian breakfast is not just one thing, sort of like you might think a proper English fry up would be. I think that a Colombian breakfast can actually have many different possibilities limited only...

Pot Roast with Cheese Popovers, Spaetzle, Carrots, and Peach Coulis Pot Roast Ingredients: Pot Roast (a size that fits you pot and appetite, mine was just 3 pounds or so) 1 large white onion 3 cloves garlic 1 small packet Goya Azafran 1 small packet Goya powdered chicken stock 1 small can tomato paste 1 medium can stewed tomatos with italian herbs 1 large can...