Holy shit sticks, the Asheville Wine & Food Festival’s Grande Tasting at The Civic Center was awesome, and brutal, and delicious, and chaotic and crazy. I’ve written two pieces about it  —  for Food Life Magazine and Ashvegas.com  —  and both are awaiting approval from the respective editors and publishers. In the meantime, you can…

Tonight is “Sweet,” The 2nd of 3 events Hosted in Asheville by the Asheville Wine & Food Festival! Dawn and I are attending courtesy of Ashvegas and AWF&F , thanks again, Jason and Melissa! I’m gonna try to take better pictures than I did at Elixir, that I’ll post here, as well as on Facebook.…

I need to drive some traffic to this dang blog, so I’m resorting to cheap tricks.  No, not Cheap Trick, although I am now listening to “Southern Girls” on YouTube.  Holy shit, what a fucking great song.  Cheap Trick was the first band I ever saw live… Fuck yeah!  Smoking’ weed on the floor of…

My latest food column has been posted to Ashvegas.com I revisit the Glass Onion review from last week, as well as recap the burger battle, and tell the full story of the 5 course dinner at Tod’s.

I have recruited a secret Sysco Spy in the food industry, who agreed to provide me with pictures of Sysco lameness. Here’s some awesome fresh peppers. Yum!  Anyone who wants to be a Sysco Spy for me can contact me. Let’s get a look at the horror. 

Okay, I promised you guys some true stories way back when, and I think I’m going to use ol’ Bloggy here to post them.  I’ve got a bunch.  I already posted GAY PARADE HOT DOG on Ashevegas, and I’ll save ONE EGG and ORDERING IN FRENCH for another time, but  for now, I’m going to…

Okay, trying again! Thanks to Reader Kilgor Trout, I may have figured out how to keep my white backgrounds from showing up gray.

I’ve uploaded this old picture from my cell phone to see if Blogger makes the white plate darker. The food is from Storm. It was really good!

This is the first post on my new blog. It’s my Food Critic logo, with the Mountain Xpress “Best of WNC” graphics added.  I created it because I recently won 3rd place in the “Social Media Personality” category of the Mountain X reader’s poll.  I’m not sure why blogger made it about 10% darker than…