Weekly Column

CHICAGO—The first restaurant show I ever attended we still wrote guest checks by hand. You took the order on a…

It’s king cake season. Those four words don’t carry a lot of weight across 90% of this country. Though in…

It looks like 2023 will go down as the year of the king cake— at least in my book. I…

NEW ORLEANS— In a poll of national food critics I believe New Orleans would be listed among the top three…

The following is the first in a summer-column series that will cover dining in New Orleans. Over the next four…

This past weekend was a memorable one for our family. Our 26-year old daughter got engaged to her longtime boyfriend.…

I had to drive five thousand miles from home to figure out what was sitting in my own front yard.…

There is a hamburger in Stone County better than 90% of the hamburgers being served in this country, and it…

Bacon is one of the few things on earth that a man can use to measure whether he's home or…

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama LISBON—Seven weeks ago, I stood in snow 200…

The whole thing started with restaurants. In 1999, when this column was young, the job was simple — eat somewhere,…

Before the restaurants, before the trips, before any of it — there was my grandmother's table. She had two of…

A twelve-year-old with a push mower and six neighbors who needed their yards cut — that's as close to a…

PETROGNANO, TUSCANY— Most of the people I pick up at the Florence airport have never met each other. By the…

MILAN—There's a moment — right before the northern lights appear — when the sky looks like it's deciding whether, or…