THE KITCHEN IS CLOSED THIS WEEK. We’ll be back next week with a new recipe. In the meantime, enjoy celebrating the holidays deliciously.

WE WERE ON THE ROAD LAST WEEK, not in the kitchen, a long overdo revisiting of Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Fall colors were everywhere, as were signs about places closing soon for the season—end of October or even earlier. Like the wonderfully weird Mystery Spot. Continue reading “Notes from the Upper Peninsula” →

WE’RE ON A ROAD TRIP, to Toronto, then Montreal and then looping back home. We are of course eating well, but nothing to share here right now. See you soon!

NO RECIPE THIS WEEK, but we’ll be back with one next Wednesday. Happy fourth of July—enjoy the long weekend!

No recipe this week. Just a little food for thought after visiting two lovely side-by-side cities this weekend.

EVERY TIME WE VISIT MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL we seem to love the two cities more. This being a food blog, we’ll start by saying we ate well everywhere, nothing as basic as what would likely be served at George Segal’s “The Diner” at the Walker Art Center. Continue reading “Feasting in the Twin Cities” →

No recipe this week. Just a little food for thought from a short road trip.

WE WERE IN DETROIT LAST WEEKEND, visiting our daughter and her boyfriend. As always, it was a feast on many levels. And in many places. This Anthony Bourdain mural is in Flint, Michigan. It was painted in 2019 by Krystal Cooke and was commissioned by Rodney Ott, owner of the Loft bar below it and a big fan of Bourdain. Continue reading “Feasting our eyes (and our bellies) on a Detroit weekend” →

BLUE KITCHEN IS CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS. We’ll see you soon. Wishing you a joyous season and a happy, healthy, prosperous new year.

APPARENTLY, WE REALLY LIKE ROAD TRIPS. Just got back from yet another one, first to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Louisville, Kentucky. Columbus, a small city of about 49,000 people, is the improbable home to a collection of modernist architecture by some of the leading international architects of the time. It has been called the sixth most architecturally-important city in the US. Louisville is home to bourbon, of course, and to beautiful, varied neighborhoods tucked into rolling hills. Both cities are home to friendly, smart people and sooo many good places to eat. Hi-Five Doughnuts, a woman-owned shop, was our last stop on the way out of Louisville, heading home. And those doughnuts were among the best things we ate. No recipe this week—we’re still recuperating. Please stop by next week.

WE ARE TRAVELING, A FUN LITTLE ROAD TRIP through Detroit, Flint, Michigan, and now, Cincinnati. It’s our first time here together and we are absolutely smitten. Amazing food, cool, friendly people, beautiful architecture, and hills, hills, hills. We hope to be back next week with a recipe. And for the record, this is not a picture of our transportation.

SUNNY DETROIT. When the girls were little and we traveled to Detroit a lot, we jokingly referred to it as sunny Detroit to make it sound exotic. Well, this weekend, it was gloriously sunny, beautifully showing off the city and its countless murals.

Like the one above in Detroit’s Eastern Market. The entire city is a mecca for international muralists, and Eastern Market is the epicenter. On a visit a few years ago, we documented a number of the market’s murals. You can find that post here.

Marion and I were in Detroit this weekend for a too brief visit with our daughter Claire and her boyfriend Marcus. We hung out, drove around and looked at things, and ate well. But we didn’t cook a thing, so no recipe this week. We hope to have one for you next week. See you then.