Take a look at a map of the Chesapeake Bay and you'll see that it points straight toward Wilmington. While its true that the waters of the bay don't quite come up to the Delaware border, crabs from…
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Once again, our expert on all things gastronomic presumes to predict the future. Based on his report card for last year, we should all take notice. Milk will come from oats, butter will come from…
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Dear Good Taste: Just started checking out the menus to Brandywine Valley Restaurant Week. What looks good you? Lots. I’m a fan of Brandywine Valley Restaurant Week , and not just for the two-course…
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Eat. Drink. Opera. Eat. Drink. Opera. Eat. Drink. Bed. That’s how you make a weekend disappear during the annual OperaDelaware Festival . Over the first weekend of this year’s Puccinifest (featuring Il…
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On my first visit to Wilmington, my future employers wined me and dined me in what was then Restaurant 821 on Market Street. As a starry-eyed 28-year-old with an appetite for food that I couldn’t…
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It’s hard to write about the BYOB scene in the Brandywine Valley because it’s constantly evolving – great for diners, tough on bloggers. I came here today to tell you about a really good cassoulet I…
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Well, this has been a year, hasn’t it? I look back on my eating habits in 2017 and find that I gravitated toward comfort foods in old familiar haunts – perhaps not the best thing to admit when you’re…
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Between the years 1996 and 2014, the number of Asian students at the University of Delaware nearly doubled to become about 5% of the total student population. [1] Is that what’s driving an incredible…
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In Delaware, we celebrate Thanksgiving every day of the year by putting fresh roasted turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce on a roll and eating it for lunch and then again for dinner because what…
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Back in my corporate travel days, when I would regularly find myself jetting off to exotic lands like Cincinnati and Indianapolis and Rochester, New York (the Flower City!), I had to make it a rule to…
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