The other night my family went out to dinner, intended to hit up the local Vietnamese place for some pho and banh mi. Yet somehow we ended up at the restaurant next door, a new place, that describes itself using every possible restaurant cliché of the moment. Chef-driven, locally sourced, seasonally inspired, blah, blah, blah. Between the ...
Stoplight Farro Salad
My family recently returned from a wonderful trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have many stories of all the delicious New Mexican cuisine we ate -- a cuisine that is characterized by the question: "green or red," referring to the kind of chiles you want on your dish, naturally. But this story is about farro, which is not a New Mexican ingredient. One ...