Sometimes during exciting travel adventures, people fall in love with a mysterious local and share naughty nights and lurid adventures together until it's time to go home. I, however, connect with food (and booze) and bring my lurid voyaging affairs to the table in a most open manner. My latest local foodie crush from my trip to Maui - poke.  Raw chunks ...

We recently moved to a fantastic 100+ year old house in an equally fantastic neighborhood.  It puts us lots closer to a bunch of fun stuff we love to do, but - most importantly - also puts us smack dab in the middle a plethora of magical Mexican and TexMex restaurants. There are few things I love more than a fresh, ...

First off, I am fresh back from a trip to West Texas to celebrate food writer and radio show host John DeMers' novel Marfa Shadows (the first in his Chef Brett series) and I am wholeheartedly in love with this little far off corner of my home state. Second off, YES.  I am totally writing a post about eating salad in ...

Bananas Foster as prepared by a master at Emeril's Delmonico from happykatie on Vimeo. More posts to come on a foodie blogger experience in New Orleans with Harrah's NOLA - but I wanted to share a bit of 'at the table cooking fun' at Emeril's Delmonico restaurant. Have you tried making Banana's Foster before?  It's really not hard at all (in fact, ...