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Whitewater’s Advantage Over Copenhagen, Home to One of the Finest Restaurants on Earth

In Copenhagen (population 583,000), a famous chef (René Redzepi) plans to close temporarily his famous restaurant (Noma) and turn part of it into an urban farm: Foraging superstar and chef René Redzepi is closing his famed Copenhagen restaurant Noma, which has been named the best restaurant in the world multiple times. According to the New York…

How Many Visits for a Restaurant Review?

How many trips should a reviewer make before publishing a review?  I think at least two, if not three.(Exceptions would apply when one is revisiting an establishment that one has reviewed previously, or when one is traveling and a second visit is impractical.) One can review after one evening, but a single, first-visit review just doesn’t seem…

The Hard Times for McDonald’s

Needless to say, this libertarian doesn’t believe in restrictions on adults’ food choices – people should be able to eat the foods they’d like, without government prohibition.  That doesn’t mean that all foods are equally good, however. McDonald’s, for example, has stumbled with patrons; that restaurant has lost many customers’ confidence. Eater explains some of…

A Recipe for Grilled Corn

If you’ve had the chance to purchase some fresh, locally-grown produce from the Whitewater City Market (Tuesdays, 3-7 PM) or Saturday Farmers Market (8 AM – Noon), perhaps you’ve picked up some corn.  (A longtime reader kindly suggested doing so at the City Market, and it was an excellent recommendation.) If corn, then a recipe…

Friday Poll: Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?

Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?Scientists in Oregon have created bacon-flavored seaweed: What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon? The answer, according to scientists at Oregon State University, is a new strain of seaweed they recently patented. Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that grows wild along…

Food: Leftovers

Embedded below is a video about turning leftovers into something worthy of a better description than leftovers.  Ideally, portions should be moderate without having much, if anything, remaining that might be wasted.  Still, the use of any remaining portions from a prior meal assures that food isn’t (unnecessarily) discarded, and demonstrates that a bit of…

Vulnerability of a Restaurant Culture

View image | gettyimages.com Whitewater’s publicly-driven marketing may not have amounted to much, these last ten years, but there are few better advertisements for Whitewater than thriving restaurants and taverns. Good restaurants, doing well, are a sign of a successful community. Some of Whitewater’s newest restaurants also reflect a sensibility that’s significantly more contemporary than…