culinary art CANVAS PRINT METAL GREETING CARDS Food Stylist Patricia Bainter and Mark Woolcott Photography combine efforts to capture the raw beauty of garden ingredients. Some of our images are now available for purchase. Decorate your kitchen, office or dining room with our tasty art. Click the images below to go to Patricia’s eCommerce site on FineArtAmerica.com. COPYRIGHT [...]
If you need to eat out, eat healthy, be served quickly and in style, where do you go? McDonald’s? Wendy’s? Not for me. The clean promise was broken ages ago, and their attempts at healthy menu items can’t be offset by the unappetizing décor of neon-colored plastic chairs and formica-style tables with the mopped-until-they-are-permanently-dirty tiled [...]
What is yellow and green, has more than five fingers, was likely born in Asia, smells like lemon heaven and makes a rare appearance in early winter? No. It’s not Godzilla. It’s the Buddha’s Hand citron. This gnarly sci-fi looking claw is the ‘citron’ used in making citron vodka. It’s a member of the citrus family [...]
Lemon meringue pie should never be used as a weapon, don’t you agree? This wedge of sunshine, with its charred marshmallowy dome on a sweetly soured lemon curd, shouldn’t be a symbolic wedge between a child, his father, and a step-mother. But that’s what Toast is—a movie about the trials of a child infatuated by [...]
One of my rewards in the middle of the day is a Starbucks drive-thru for a grande, nonfat, nowhip mocha (NFNWM). I’ll even meet friends, or make my first Match.com rendez-vous at a Starbucks. While I still love her, I’m a bit bored with the green mermaid, and it’s time to discover new coffee houses, [...]
Denver food trucks are HOT. Some are really hot—so hot they look like fire beathing beasts. Want a wood-fired pizza? No problem—just stand back a bit as the folks inside sweat it out rotating pizzas in their built-in, flame-spewing oven. Professional restaurants would be envious of these kitted out taste-delivering tin cans. Not only are [...]
The store windows were taped with paper to keep out the lookie-loos. Mark and I had an appointment so we let ourselves in, despite the ‘do not enter’ sign. We walked into a homey but voluminous retail space flanked by tall brick walls, high ceilings, a tattered wood floor, and a lot of empty real [...]
As a former pastry chef, I always have liqueurs on hand. When people see my shelves of bottles I assure them that “they are for baking purposes.” Some people smirk a little with skepticism. The truth is I do not drink much, and these luscious liquids are reserved for flavoring chocolate truffles or sweet sauces [...]
A good old-fashioned county fair smells like funnel cakes and candy apples mixed with hay, manure, and sweaty bodies. It’s a heady mixture of earth, animal, and mineral. There’s nothing quite as fun and pure as neighbors coming together to show off their prize animals, calico quilts and best cherry pies. Denver is about to [...]
Two weekends ago I spent the morning at the Cherry Creek Farmer’s Market. It was my first visit despite living here for eight years. I’ve driven by countless times and enjoyed looking at the multicolored portable tents with crowds of meandering shoppers. My sister was visiting from Ohio, so I felt it was time to [...]
IF ONLY REMBRANDT had a Kumato, he might have painted this darkly luscious tomato on a recycled canvas, rolled it up like a scroll and tried to sell it to one of his patrons. They are grown in The Netherlands and the Mediterranean, so it’s possible he enjoyed them too. Perhaps it is one of [...]
Raw radish isn’t for everyone. You have to enjoy a little heat and a lot of crunch. It can be a fun addition to a buffalo burger, or sandwiches or served as a side dish. Black Radish Slaws Base: 175 g (6 ounces) black radish, skin on, julienned 175 g (6 ounces) red radish, skin [...]
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