As many of you know, I live in New York City and to say the least this town turns into a green t-shirt, stumble walking, puke corner, train rowdy, loud voice hell on earth by 11am on St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve never been quite sure when this holiday got so ridiculously out of control. How...
I could live here. That’s what I thought after my first visit to this city. Each subsequent visit always reenforces this desire. Barcelona’s bright culture, food, architecture and people can’t help but become infectious. In Barcelona the creativity is loose, curvy, spontaneous, random and...
7 courses and counting Every once in a while the timing works out so we can share a kitchen with some of our closest collaborators. Two weeks ago I found myself in the kitchen with long time friend and chef, Ben Long. His recent trip to Italy and my heritage spawned an idea to create a traditional...
Sometimes bread and water is all you need. Ok, perform the water-to-wine trick and now we’re set. The simple things are often the most rewarding. At a recent trip to Flour+Water (which I will post about in more detail later) I was reminded of this simple fact. It inspires my personal cooking...
This is the list for guys to step up the game and really impress their ladies. Below are our top five epic guy moves for 2013 Valentine’s Day dates. Whether your married, in a “long term” or just starting to court, here are five experiences that will make you legend in the...
Old. Spanish. Luxury! I was only in Madrid for 36 hours so every minute counted. I wanted to treat Missus Tasty to a little extra luxury for this leg of our Spanish vacation so I started with old world, Spanish luxury right from the airport with a private driver. He whisked us from the modern...
According to us of course! It occurred to me last week that Forking Tasty has never jumped on the top 10 list or the trends of year thing. I thought this year is the year we do both so without further preamble here’s what the whole Tasty family thinks you should look out for in 2013. 10....
Ohh brother…ly love! Philly is a bit of a second home to us. It’s been that way ever since DJ RubyRube took up residence in the late 90’s and started summoning us down for his epic parties and subsequent eating adventures. This is back in the day when Steven Starr had only two...
Detroit Lives! You probably thought Detroit was dead or in coma BUT that’s the farthest thing from the truth. I landed at DTW with a few hours to spare before a meeting scheduled in Lansing. I decided to zoom into the city center and explore bit before heading out to the sticks. With in minutes...
In our quest to bring back dinnertime we’ve travelled a lot over the last year. Our journeys and eating adventures produced quite the list of amazing spots to eat, see and sleep in each city we visited. It’s also given us fantastic insight into how people feel about food, eating and...
Forgive us. It’s been 18 days since we’ve posted anything. There are reasons we will later go into but for now, suffice it to say we are full, at least 5 lbs heavier and planning for the turn of the year (It’s Spanish themed. More on that soon too.) The above Christmas beast image...
This year for Thanksbringing we decided to try our best not to bite off more than we can chew. Our strategy was simple, focus on meat that cooks itself. The above lamb was one of our 4 meat dishes. Originally this lamb shoulder was spun on the rotisserie but a bad drip pan and small fire changed...
It’s in Ohio. And it’s all about ice cream. I had a one day trip in Columbus, Ohio, a place I’d never been and didn’t think there would be much worth visiting. As it turns out there was a bunch of things that made the play side of this work trip very satisfying. The Bites Jeni’s...
We’ve been to a lot of places, met a lot of people and ate a lot of food. The below map gives you an idea of the quantity we’re talking about. It occurred to us that, although volume makes for a well rounded traveller, it’s the quality of our experiences that is of more value to...
The NYC Subway has closed for the second time in it’s 109 year history. The crippling effects of this are lost to the rest of the world, to some degree, unless you are a NYer. Not to be snarky, exclusive or belittle those Floridians and other places that have felt devastating effects of...
Talk about a backdrop. It’s very rare that we pull off a dinner that has such direct connection between the location and the film we’re screening. This was that kind of perfect storm. I moved into my office on 34th and fifth about two years ago. Day two I wandered up to the roof and saw...
