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Food Guilt: Eat it now, apologize never
Recently, I had a casual potluck dinner with some friends. It’s a regular group, and we know each other pretty well. As we were setting out the dishes, I noticed there was a lot of apologizing. “Sorry, this isn’t organic.”
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Finding the Food: Lincoln Highway and Elkhorn
My latest adventure to find pockets of food outside of the Omaha area didn’t bring me far away from town. A short jaunt down the historic cobblestone Lincoln Highway brought me to the familiar old main street of Elkhorn. The
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Allez Cuisine! Heirloom Tomato & Fresh Mozzarella Tower Recipe
Yes, I know some of my friends think I’m a little extreme in my devotion to the joys of local farmer’s markets. People stopping by my office on a cold and blustery February morning, may find me staring longingly at
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The Top Dishes & Drinks of 2011
Welcome to the 2011 Menu of Menus. The menu items featured here were the top vote-getters in an online poll of Omaha’s top dishes and drinks in 11 different categories. Those are Best Salad, Best Comfort Food, Best Entrée, Most
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The Pathos of Cooking
Romance, comfort, grief — food triggers emotions in all of us If we agree that cooking is a method of persuasion, of dialogue, then we can explore the formal Aristotelian components of persuasion — ethos, logos and pathos — to
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BBQ Review: Nine BBQ Restaurants Duke it out to be Omaha’s best
For this issue’s food review we held another one of our food competitions — this one to answer the oft-asked question, “Who has the best barbecue in the area?” Barbecue was brought in from nine of the best slow-cooking, meat-extravanganza,
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Letter From the Publisher: Issue 10
Big and exciting changes are afoot at Food & Spirits Magazine. I’m happy to announce that FSM has formed a partnership with The Reader family of publications. John Heaston, publisher of The Reader, and I formed this partnership as a
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Bring on the Farmer’s Markets
It’s that time of year again – when everything is moving outdoors, including our meals. In the past, farmer’s markets were the primary connection between the production by farmers and the consumption of food by the end consumer. With the
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The Dumpster: Un-American Food
We have been invaded. The Europeans snuck in and now all our signature foods are named after their home towns. Hamburger. Frankfurter. We call the latter a hot dog, but in our hearts we know the truth. A hot dog
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