New Orleans Restaurants/Bars to visit | Linton’s List

DA’ QUARTER: **GALATOIRE’S – 209 Bourbon- locals spend $$$ on good eatin’ here- don’t miss for very nice dinner.  Be sure to make reservations. RED FISH GRILL – 115 Bourbon – Ralph Brennan’s restaurant.  casual but good local food. BOURBON HOUSE- 144 Bourbon- Dickie Brennan’s restaurant.  lots of local seafood variety. ACME OYSTER HOUSE – ultra-casual with red-checkered tablecloths. no reservations needed CAFÉ DU MONDE-  beignets! PAT O’BRIEN’S – 718 St Peter- touristy, but fun.  … more

La Super-Rica Taquería’s Isidoro Gonzalez: Lifetime Achievement Award

The 2010 Foodies The Santa Barbara Independent. Such a special place and chef: La Super-Rica Taquería’s Isidoro Gonzalez: Lifetime Achievement Award For 30 years now, the relatively ramshackle shack on Milpas has been a Mexican-food mecca for people up and down the coast. Isidoro Gonzalez has been the guiding force for all that home-cooked goodness that leaves people dreaming of their favorite number from the hand-written menu boards. The truly discerning, though, know to enjoy … more

Beyond the Eternal Food Fight – NYTimes.com

Beyond the Eternal Food Fight – NYTimes.com. January 10, 2011, 9:54 AM Beyond the Eternal Food Fight By ANDREW C. REVKIN The New York TimesAn index of world food prices. Click for the full graph and caption. 10:13 a.m. | Updated Almost every time global prices surge and the media and public reach out to analysts for meaning, a decades-long food fight resumes. The latest price surge is clearcut, bringing food costs up to or past peaks reached in 2008. With populations … more

Special Edible: Taking the Leap: An Inspiring 2010

Special Edible: Taking the Leap: An Inspiring 2010. powered by From Big Sur’s killer cliff-clinging eateries to Salinas’ unparalleled produce, this blog aims to sniff out all things Monterey County can stomach, via picture and prose, curiosity and appetite, hand and mouth. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 2011 Taking the Leap: An Inspiring 2010 The apparently sauced knucklehead in theJimmy Buffet t-shirt jumping offBixby Bridgein front of an objectingCHPofficer has to rank among the most striking single … more