When I was a kid my summer activity of choice was spending hours submerged in the blue quietness at the deep end of the pool, seeing how ...

If there's a nautical gene in the pool, I've definitely got it. As a kid, Flipper was my favorite show, not because I envied the ...

Just so you don't think I've given up blogging for tweeting, I'm posting some shots of the reasons I haven't posted much ...

With albacore season in full swing, it seemed like a good time to run this article, which I wrote last season for NW Palate magazine. ...

An edited version of this story first appeared in the November/December 2010 issue of NW Palate magazine. * * * “The whole idea was to...

Obsolete. Finished. Doomed. All descriptors used when the subject of the future of print comes up. Not to mention much wringing of hands, r...

When someone drops an opportunity in my lap, I grab it. Especially if it involves pork products. So when my friend (and editor) Peter S...

Today is Black Friday, and I can't think of a better way to turn this mad season of consumption on its head than to think about ways we...

Normally I wouldn't recommend driving seven hours just to have dinner. But the city of Boise, with its richly complex Basque community,...