October 08: Your Kitchen

  Pump it up The sun may be shining and the chiggers still biting, but when the hard squashes start to show up at City Market, get ready for the curtain to fall on the summertime show. While it’s true that squash will store over the winter (ideally at a dry cellar temperature of about […]

October 08: Your Living Space

  Flood relief Question for Debbie Halhoun with Floors are Us: What should you do if you spill water on a wood floor?   Answer: “Get it dry, get it quick,” should be your motto, says Halhoun. While damage is preventable, a speedy response is your best chance at saving your hardwood floor from tragedy. […]

October 08: Hot house

  We appreciate subtlety now and then, and this place in Johnson Village has it in spades. Seemingly a standard rancher given some tasteful Craftsman-style updates, it wears its flared porch columns and front roof gable with a quiet pride. Ornamental trees help it blend with its setting, and the low, mostly rail-less porch—furnished with […]

Table manners

So, apparently some nerds at the University of Nottingham convinced someone out there to give them a grant to make YouTube videos about the Periodic Table called Periodic Videos—one YouTube video about each element on the Periodic Table. The results, let me tell you, are grant money gone to excellent use. Picture this: An older […]

Farther along

A year has passed since my article “From the ground up” appeared in C-VILLE’s annual food issue.

We Ate Here

You know, some dishes come and go and others really earn their stripes. Such is the bazaar salad served at the more-than-half-a-decade-old-by-now teahouse. This thing has been one of the most reliable healthy meals Downtown for quite a while, and so we salute it: From the sheer volume of its greenery and the distinctive notes […]

Once upon a vine

Chef Craig Hartman stands in front of a row of large double doors that are opened to the outside and through which rows of grapevines are visible,

Number crunching

So, there’s no question that people have begun freaking out. I was talking to my dad on the phone the other day and when I asked him how he was doing, he answered my question by saying simply, “I’m worried about Obama, Nell.” I tried to cheer him up by saying that there’s still time—that […]