POSTED // Apr 9,2008 - When you have the good fortune to spend a week on Maui, as I just did, there’s not a whole helluva lot to complain about. Fabulous weather, wonderful people, incredible scenery, and … the food. Well, I never thought I’d utter these...

POSTED // Apr 9,2008 - The “I didn’t see it coming dept.”, or maybe you could call it good news/bad news: The bad news that Greg Neville has closed his Murray/Cottonwood Pine Restaurant, voted as recently as 2007 as “Best New Restaurant” by Salt...

POSTED // Apr 9,2008 - I’m always on the lookout for wine bargains and interesting wine from places not as prestigious or well-known as Napa, Sonoma, Bordeaux or Burgundy. So this month I decided to explore some wines from Wild Horse Winery & Vineyards, located in...

POSTED // Apr 2,2008 - Since I’ve given Bambara restaurant a fair amount of ink in the past—just last year I wrote about a special Spamalot dinner there—I hadn’t intended to review it again, even though there’s a new chef and new menu at Bambara....

POSTED // Apr 2,2008 - This month, April 19-21, more than 400 chefs, cooks and other food-service professionals will descend on our city for the 2008 American Culinary Federation (ACF) Western regional conference being held at the City Center Hilton. The theme for this year’s...

POSTED // Apr 2,2008 - Even as the U.S. dollar is getting clobbered by the euro and foreign exchange rates are dismal, it is possible to find Bordeaux bargains. Do not abandon hope. In fact, French Bordeaux is pretty much a steal compared to the inflated prices of say, American...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - It doesn’t seem like so long ago that I was in college—after all, I didn’t grow up in a log cabin built with my own two hands—but university food has changed radically since then. Gone, seemingly, is the mystery meat of yore, fish...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - It’s a miracle! I dropped into Park City’s Fairweather Natural Foods this week and discovered what just might be this planet’s most magnificent muffin. It’s called the Miracle Muffin, and, although I could swear it was loaded with...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - A couple of years ago, I wrote in this column about the first-ever Cabernet Sauvignon bottling from Parallel Wines. Right out of the box, Parallel’s Cabernet was all but stunning. And, indeed, it was almost impossible for wine stores here and elsewhere...

POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - I could diet and detox for the next month and probably not undo the damage I did during three fun-filled days at Deer Valley Resort this month. I think I’ve finally found my food and wine intake limit. It goes without saying that I could never afford...