Misc Stuff
Hell No, We Won’t Go!
By Noelle Stettner at December 17, 2012 | 8:50 pm | 0 Comment
I’m getting a complex, and restaurant hosts and hostesses, I don’t care what my therapist says, it’s all your fault. Lately, it doesn’t seem to matter which restaurant my husband and I walk into — we are being exiled to the absolute worst table in the place. We have been led to some dark corner table so often, by the kitchen, in an annex, to the basement... more...
Having a Ball My Dhaling?
By Lamar Thomas at October 19, 2011 | 6:33 pm | 0 Comment
Into The Bizarre with Lamar In the most beautiful of times, Autumn, we crave hearty and easy to heat or reheat foods. In Southern tradition the tailgate, campfire, back porch and by the fire foods have to be able to rest easy to eat, keep warm and/or fit inside a bun. Wanting to keep the focus on Indian cuisines for America the options were very easy to choose from for more...
Beloved, the Wheys of Milk and Roses
By Lamar Thomas at September 21, 2011 | 9:17 pm | 0 Comment
Homemade cheese or paneer is daunting for a novice. We will take it a step further into making our own cheese curd. Dairy is very prominent in Indian cuisines. Making the curd evolved from the very simple technique of stirring lemon juice into boiling milk. India, Bengal/Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, South Asian, Latin, Germanic and Mediterranean all make more...
Is A Hoppy Beer A Happy Beer?
By Harry Hager at September 8, 2011 | 10:09 am | 8 Comments
As a beer lover you would think I would be thrilled that the craft brewing industry seems recession proof. While I feel a pain in my wallet paying ten plus dollars for a six pack or worse yet a four pack of these artisan brews — but if the beer is that good and some are — others are vast disappointments. So why now with more choices available than ever before do so more...
Get Your Grubby Government Hands off My Plate!
By Tom Maicon at July 20, 2011 | 9:23 am | 2 Comments
Is the government stealing food from us making fat cat bankers even plumper? I have seen the packages on the grocery store shelves shrinking and every restaurant owner I know says they can't keep up with the rising cost of food. Pretty scary stuff......check out this article: more...
Brett-OH-MY-ces
By Chris Reid at May 12, 2011 | 9:46 am | 0 Comment
What the heck is brettanomyces? It is a fault we love to embrace! It’s a yeast — that is a unicellular type of fungus, not a bacterium — that is a common spoilage organism. Brett for short, a genus of yeast consisting of multiple species found naturally in wood. Brettanomyces contributes distinctive flavors to the beverage it grows in. When used properly, more...
Navigating the In’food’mation Highway
By Tom Maicon at April 19, 2011 | 7:57 am | 7 Comments
Last month, Food & Beer Atlanta contributor chef Chris Gatti wrote a great piece about the emergence of food sites such as Yelp! and Urbanspoon, and offered fellow chefs advice on how to deal with these sites’ user reviews of their restaurants, good or bad. So this month, I’d like to utilize this editorial space by assisting you dear reader — on the patron more...
Help!: The Emulsion of Foodies & Technology
By Chris Gatti at March 9, 2011 | 3:01 pm | 2 Comments
It is obvious to us all that we exist in a world that is driven by technology. We can go through an entire day with only our “smart-phones” to turn to for virtually anything and everything. From a chefs perspective, we can use them to wake-up, check the weather to see if we should open the patio for that day or make sure our orders placed the night before more...
Let’s Go Parking
By Carrie Neal Walden at November 10, 2010 | 1:42 pm | 1 Comments
What’s the first and last experience you have at a restaurant, many times? You might say “hostess.” Guess again — it’s the valet. That hardy young guy who’s run for your car and brought it back with a smile — or the one you’re just certain has been rifling through your things while you and your wife were enjoying steaks and mussels over a nice bottle of more...
Atlanta’s Most Haunted Restaurants
By Tom Maicon at October 7, 2010 | 9:25 am | 0 Comment
Every year about this time most publications release their “best of” editions. We decided to mix things up a little by coming up with our list of Atlanta’s most haunted restaurants for those seeking a spine tingling chill along with their meal this October. So remember, when dining at any of the restaurants below, you never know who else is sitting at your more...
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