Hello friends! Happy New Year. It’s crazy to think that it’s 2017 and I started this blog when I was just a freshman in college four years ago! Since then, I’ve eaten so much great food, taken lots of amazing trips, and even got to live in New York City for a year. It’s been… Read More This is Not Goodbye
It’s that time of year – you know, the time we all scramble to figure out what the heck to give each other. But there’s a better way: give food gifts for people who eat. I’ve compiled a list of my 10 favorite holiday gift ideas plus one bonus stocking stuffer, with ideas to fit everyone’s taste,… Read More The Eater’s Holiday Gift Guide
Hello everyone! I hope your Thanksgiving (though it’s been nearly a week now, hasn’t it?) was four stars. The BEST. I’d like to talk about restaurant ratings in terms of “stars” today. This is something I’ve thought a lot about, researched, and always wanted to implement. But I wanted to do it the right way –… Read More A Word on Ratings
Literally and figuratively, it seems to be the former. Eat Sleep Eat Rating: A slice of toasted bread and butter may sound like a gratuitously ironic choice of cuisine for a restaurant, but the dish – yes, we’re calling toast a “dish” now – has grown so in vogue among chefs that it’s reached official trend status, and… Read More Toasted Coffee + Kitchen – Toast or Triumph?
It’s a humid, sweaty day at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. I’m The Public, here to learn about sustainable agriculture, and to pet a few baby goats. There I am, on my knees and digging my hands into the dirt searching for weeds, sporting my Kale university t-shirt and bright green muck boots. I’m joined by a young chef who… Read More Best Meal of 2016: Blue Hill at Stone Barns
It’s November 18th, and Thanksgiving is almost upon us. That means 2 things. 1: I have the Thanksgiving Instagram photo of all Instagram Thanksgiving photos ready to go for you guys’ enjoyment. And 2: There will be Friendsgiving plans, and Friendsgiving anxieties. Now, I’ve only hosted a Friendsgiving once before, but I have to say… Read More How to Host Friendsgiving
When people ask me if I want to go out for tacos, I always hesitate. Not because I don’t want tacos – because I’m having a moment of silence for the tacos at Mr. Mesero. Dallas restauranteur Mico Rodriguez is locally known for his hugely successful family of Tex-Mex restaurants, and once again Rodriguez is dominating Dallas’ sit-down taco… Read More Mesero is Dallas’ Taco Restaurant on Every Corner
Eat Sleep Eat Rating: Dining options in Dallas are many and varied, from Tex-Mex to Southern to modern American. If you want tacos, there are at least 10 places I can think of immediately to get them (pro tip: definitely go to Mr. Mesero.) But Gemma carves its own niche in the city along Knox-Henderson… Read More Knox Henderson’s Hidden Gem(ma) – Dallas
Do I eat my greens? Sure do. Am I a vegan? Heck no. Am I just a sad lactose intolerant person who still craves mac n’ cheese? Pretty much. That’s where Chef Chloe Coscarelli comes in, with her nutritional yeast-yielding powers and addictive cashew cheese. Her book called Chloe’s Kitchen is a cookbook that almost anyone can get into,… Read More The Vegan Cookbook I Swear By
The simple blue-and-white, Grecian-esque atmosphere at The Little Greek in Carrollton, Texas, is clean and inviting, and the staff attentive. A cheery server took a few minutes to tell us his story of childhood memories in Greece, where he ate gyros every day after school and skipped his mom’s dinner and his chores in the field on account of an… Read More Mezze for Days
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