POSTED // May 7,2008 - Until I had dinner at a restaurant in New York City’s Chinatown, I hadn’t realized that some Chinese restaurants offer one menu for their Chinese customers and another for non-Chinese. The food in most Chinese restaurants in America is so...

POSTED // May 7,2008 - During a trip to Napa and Sonoma Counties last month, one of my most enjoyable winery visits took place at Trefethen Family Vineyards, where members of the Trefethen family took time out of their very busy schedules to play host. This was in the midst...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - For more than 80 years, The New Yorker has been the go-to magazine for this country’s best fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, commentary, criticism, cartoons and, occasionally, writing about food and drink. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - Here is another fun beach book, especially for wine lovers: It’s called Wine Dogs: The Dogs of North American Wineries. My wife read this one on the flight to Maui and shared nearly every freakin’ page with me. It’s really cute though:...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - The Weekly Poll: Utah PizzaIt is true, I suppose, that man cannot live on pizza alone. But he can try. That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing for the past week or so: gorging on pizza. Pizza is so popular here that it’s a full-time...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - I’ve mentioned more than once in these pages that my very favorite Salt Lake City pizzeria is Settebello (260 S. 200 West, Settebelo.net), which features über-authentic Napolitano-style pizza. But before Settebello there was Este Pizza Company,...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - Whenever I taste wine, I try to remember to jot down a few notes about it to help trigger my memory later. It’s not the most sophisticated system; I haven’t a fancy wine log or anything like that—mostly just scraps of paper, Post-It...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - I’ve been going ’round and ’round about sushi. On the one hand, there’s the convenience of premade, prepackaged sushi at places like Aloha Island Style sushi—or, for that matter, your local supermarket or Maverik service...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - By the way, I Sushi features half-priced rolls during weekday lunches. And, for sake lovers, for $8, you can purchase your own traditional Japanese wooden sake box at I ♥ Sushi. Customers write their names on the boxes or decorate them and leave...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - If you haven’t heard about umami yet, you’re missing out on the Next Big Thing. I bring up the topic of umami in view of this week’s dining column, which is about sushi. Until recently, human tongues were thought to have flavor receptors...