http://inthecupboard.com Exploring the world of a well stocked cupboard. Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:04:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Face it, if you like Cesar Salads in most restaurants, you also probably like canned fruit, white bread, etc.  Cesar salad unites the two worst things in the American diet: romaine lettuce (even iceberg has its teen male-fantasy sexyness; think Brigitte Nielsen in Rocky IV), and the inescapable adjective, "creamy."  ... http://inthecupboard.com/2008/08/31/the-hale-caesar-salad/ Jen and I have been restaurant hopping for a few days straight, dropping into a few of our favorite spots in Portland and trying some new ones.  Then voila, a spinach salad stopped us in our tracks. On the way home we had dropped by Autentica, a restaurant serving up ... http://inthecupboard.com/2008/08/07/over-the-river-and-through-the-woods-autentica/ The discovery of a new food or drink strikes something deep in the brain’s most primitive regions. A salamander emerging from the primordial ooze feels the same vital vibrations upon eating a new, especially plump insect as does the gourmand when first eating foie gras d’oie. There is ... http://inthecupboard.com/2008/08/05/the-sbagliato-cocktail-recipe-strikes-the-new-world/