For those of us with some willpower, storing cheese is a constant challenge. My mom uses that cling wrap stuff to keep the wrapper nice and tight, always giving my dad a hard time for not re-wrapping correctly. I followed that method as well, for a while, though never found the results to be all […]
Though an accomplished poet, writer and English professor (at St Joe’s) as herself, we know Tenaya Darlington best as her alter ego, Madame Fromage, a cheese-centric blogger, magazine writer, tasting guide, and ambassador to the world of Di Bruno Brothers. Darlington’s work has been published in Cooking Light, Culture and Grid, among others, and she […]
B.T. Baking is a small company right here in Haverford, PA producing some of the richest, gooiest, most decadently awesome organic brownies that you’ll ever try.
I’ve been digging stouts more and more recently, and this one from local boys Dogfish Head is no exception. The Chicory Stoudt, described as “A dark beer made with a touch of roasted chicory, organic Mexican coffee, St. John’s Wort, and licorice root. Brewed with whole-leaf Cascade and Fuggles hops, the grains include pale, wheat, […]
Put simply, Tired Hands Brew Cafe is one of the most exciting local openings in recent memory. It didn’t bring big city pedigree like White Dog Wayne, nor did it bring the hype of Xilantro. So why is it exciting? Because it’s a downright cool place that, unlike those other two, is also the type […]
File this under the “who knew?” category: In King of Prussia, just off Henderson Rd. (near Renaissance Blvd.), sits the commercial bakery and offices for Philly favorite breadmaker Le Bus. In addition, there’s an outlet store attached! It’s almost strange to call this an “outlet,” because it’s much more than that. Almost all the bread […]
The Newtown Square / Broomall area is an interesting one for Main Line food-lovers. It’s likely that many people who live on the true “main line” (especially blue-bloods) don’t think of NS as a place to go for food, despite its proximity to just about every town between Bryn Mawr and Paoli. That said, there […]
One would think that the main draw to A Taste of Olive would be olive oil. It is right there in the name, after all, and their product selection is mainly a wide variety of olive oils from around the world, many infused with different flavors. One would be wrong. The single most compelling reason […]
Once again, it all comes down to bacon. Thick, crispy, juicy bacon. Pete’s Produce Farm, a roadside farm stand located on Rt. 926 that I have driven past dozens of times, but only recently had the opportunity to stop and peruse, sells the best bacon I’ve ever eaten. It gets crispy on the outside, yet […]
I’ll never forget the best strawberries I’ve ever eaten. It was 1997; I was in Munich, Germany, strolling on the outskirts of the Viktualienmarkt (a farm market in the center of the old town), when I walked past a vendor selling strawberries that smelled so intoxicating that I couldn’t do anything else but stop. The […]