Monthly Archives: December 2014

Top 10 2014

Truth be told, I eat a lot of chicken salads. How else do you think I keep my girlish figure after those all day food tours of far flung neighborhoods eating Jim Shoe after Jim Shoe? That’s the thing about year end lists, they tend to focus on the thrills rather than the day-to-day. I […]
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2014 in Food in Pictures

    For those that follow me on Instagram, many of these pics will look familiar. I do love IG. However, its really changing the way I shoot food, for better or worse. Primarily, the issue is composition, the square format. Typically, I shoot with my iPhone’s camera and then edit in IG, which results […]
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Eric & Mike’s Christmas Carp Migration

Eric & Mike are out here to reassess how we look an invader in the eye, find a compromise, and recuperate their bad name. That name is carp and Mike’s people grilled it up on the shores of the Tigris River and my people fried it up for a Christmas feast. But this is America, […]
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12/12: Piranha Club X Enemy Kitchen present: Eric & Mike’s Christmas Carp Migration

Friday, December 12th, 7PM 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.     Throughout Central & Eastern Europe, carp is king of the Christmas dinner table, whether sauteed with a dark beer in Berlin, fried crisp and served with potato salad in Prague, or presented as the center piece of a 12 course, meatless spread in Warsaw. In […]
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