In Good Taste

A farm menu

Suzanne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:24 +0000

In celebration of this year’s National Farm-City Week, the new B&O American Brasserie is offering a three-course, prix-fixe menu featuring ingredients from farms across the area. The promotion starts today (Nov. 20) through Nov. 25. (The restaurant is closed Thanksgiving Day.) The menu was created by the restaurant’s executive chef E. Michael Reidt and is available [...]

Green Spring Station extends farmers' market

Suzanne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:11 +0000

This is a big weekend for farmers’ markets as shoppers descend on area markets to gather their Thanksgiving ingredients in abundance. Here’s a list to find one near you. Go early and rested. Green Spring Station in Lutherville will be one of those markets welcoming patrons from 2-5 p.m. this Saturday in the shopping center [...]

Father Leo on TV

Suzanne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:32 +0000

Father Leo Patalinghug—Maryland’s newest cooking celeb—is scheduled to be the subject of a feature segment at 9 a.m. Sunday (Nov. 22) on CBS’s News Sunday Morning during its annual episode devoted to food. You may remember that the St. Mary’s Seminary priest bested chef Bobby Flay in a Throwdown fajita challenge on the Food Network this [...]

Top Cheftestant Jennifer

Suzanne — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:09:59 +0000

No major show spoilers here except to say that contestant Jennifer wowed the judges with her Quickfire challenge and made it to the final four last night. For a recap of the episode, read Max’s blog. She nails it as usual. But my co-worker Jess Blumberg discovered something interesting yesterday about contestant Jennifer, who is the [...]

A wine for Henry

Suzanne — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:59:30 +0000

I was getting a turkey sandwich recently at The Wine Merchant in Lutherville, but I was really on a search for wine—and not just any wine. I was looking for Henry’s Passion. The story behind the wine captivated me, and I had to have a bottle or two. The wine was created in memory of [...]

Almost Thanksgiving

Suzanne — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:40:52 +0000

Wow, how did that happen? Two weeks from today, we’ll be gorging ourselves on turkey and all the trimmings. My sister is hosting my family’s big meal, and, of course, we’ll bring various side dishes to help out. And being native Baltimoreans, we certainly will have a big bowl of sauerkraut on the table. Locals know [...]

A response from servers

Suzanne — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:48:37 +0000

Like many others, I enjoyed reading the recent New York Times blogs on “100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do,” especially since I’m usually on the receiving end of service. Part one presented such dictums as “Never serve anything that looks creepy or runny or wrong” and “Never touch a customer.” Part two had these admonitions: [...]

Cuban products for now

Suzanne — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:49:56 +0000

Chef Marta Quintana decided to take a detour from opening Havana Road, a Cuban restaurant, in the space occupied by Grano Pasta Bar on The Avenue in Hampden. She is focusing instead on her Cuban line of products, which are available now at Whole Foods in Mt. Washington and Annapolis. But she’s not ruling out having [...]

AVAM restaurant menu

Suzanne — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:40:30 +0000

By now, you probably know that the American Visionary Art Museum finally has a new restaurant. It’s been a long culinary drought, but the intriguingly named Mr. Rain’s Fun House officially opened this week. I was perplexed, though, when I checked out its website. There’s no hint as to what’s actually on the menu, which is [...]

The future of cookbooks

Suzanne — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:21 +0000

I’ve been thinking about cookbooks because a friend of mine just released a beautiful one this week called The Brandywine Book of Food. It has recipes, gorgeous photos, and focuses on the culinary terroir of the Brandywine River, which mostly winds its way through Pennsylvania and Delaware. I can’t wait to buy it. But I’ve been [...]