Gavelwrench Fishfire | A Blog

Discussing the checkered past of the Native American staple fry bread.

An illustrated guide to my first attempt at grilling a pizza on my Weber charcoal grill.

Lee tells us if we should eat it or not.

I decided to start dieting on Fat Tuesday. It wasn’t intentional and luckily I don’t live in a beignet mecca like New Orleans, so it wasn’t too difficult. I know I ragged on M. Obama’s campaign against fatties, but that had nothing to do with my decision to cut carbs from my life for good [...]

I’ve been detoxing for a week now, more or less, because I thought it would be a good thing to do before summer. I knew I needed to eat — not one of those three day master cleanse, liquids only detoxes — so I found an okay seven-day plan on… Gwyneth Paltrow’s awful site. If [...]

A julia ritchey dot com dinner exclusive.

{O} <— This is my new super trendy computer symbol for pie. Use munificently. I recently ordered what I call the Pieble. I’m not being sacrilegious, either. This book clocks in at 600 pages with 300 recipes, including a dozen or so different crusts. If ever there was a case for pie as a religion*, [...]

I adore Mark Bittman’s “The Minimalist” food vlog on The New York Times. I even got caught watching it today at work (drool was coming from my mouth) and was assigned a story because they thought I had time on my hands — I was actually working on a story already; I just take foodie [...]

Hook: Dinner party was fabulous, but have you seen my student loan bill??? Four out of four guests agree that my dinner party was a success. For three hours, we dished out work gossip over bottles of rose and red wine, helping ourselves to seconds of asparagus lasagna and the overwhelming winner of the evening: [...]