Food & Drink

Welcome to the archive on anything and everything food and drink related, including food criticism, brewing notes, fermenting tips, burr grinding and mixology. The blog is called Ryes and ‘Shine, after all.

Recipes: Head over to the Recipe Page!

Food Opinions:

• Are You a Culinary Bodhisattva?
• Are You a Texture Eater?
• Five Forgotten Candies and a Candy Bracket
• My “Best Meal Ever” on Zagat
• My “Foodie Profile”
• On Food Cravings
• So, You Want to be a Recipe Poacher?
• The Twenty “Unhealthiest” Cereals List
• Veggie Dating?
• What to Eat During Exams: Part I
• What to Eat During Exams: Part II
• What “Vegetarian” Means to Me
• World Vegetarian Awareness Month

Test Kitchen:

• Coach’s Oats
• Protein Bar Breakdown
• Too Many Beets
• Twin Oaks’ “More Than Tofu”
• Soyboy Baked Tofu
• What’s a Spaghetti Squash?
• When Recipes Go Awry
• Indian from Veganomicon

Restaurants:

• Barbuzzo, Philadelphia, PA
• BBQ Exchange, Gordonsville, VA
• The Broken Egg Bistro, Chesapeake, VA
• Ipanema Cafe, Richmond, VA
• Pumpkin Market, Philadelphia, PA
• Tinto, Philadelphia, PA
• Zahav, Philadelphia, PA

C’Ville Restaurants [For more info, check out the C’Ville Page!]:

• Al-Hamraa
• Blue Mountain Brewery
• C and O Restaurant
• C’Ville Coffee
• Fry’s Spring Station
• Mono Loco
• Monsoon Siam
• Positively Fourth Street
• Revolutionary Soup
• Song Song’s Zhou and Bing
• Sticks Kebab Shop
• ZoCaLo

Travel and Food:

• Asheville, NC [Five Parts: I, II, III, IV, and V]

Food Related:

• Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert at the Paramount, Charlottesville, VA
• Forks over Knives
• Polyface Farms, Swoope, VA

Foodies and Holidays:

• Vegan and Vegetarian Holiday Recipes
• Vegan Superbowl Party
• What are you bringing to Thanksgiving dinner? Use this chart to find out!
• Will You Eat Meat on Thanksgiving Day?

Wine:

• Barboursville Vineyards, Barboursville, VA
• Do You BYO?
• Keswick Vineyards, Keswick, VA

Beer:

• New Belgium Brewery
• Shaun’s Beer Journey
• Top of the Hops Beer Festival

Coffee:

• Shenandoah Joe’s and Our Coffee Brew-ology

Cocktails:

• 9 1/2 Speakeasy, Charlottesville, VA
• Mezcal Old-Fashioned at ZoCaLo

Etc:

• Take Brewing Classes in Brooklyn!