• Wednesday, February 04th, 2009
Anyone who has conducted an interview, especially over the phone, knows what a blessing and a curse these conversations can be. Such was the case when I spoke with Food Network’s Adam Gertler about his new show, Will Work For Food. We were both on a time constraint, which meant I couldn’t get into the Syracuse food scene as much as I wanted. Plus I sat in my car in the parking lot of the restaurant conducting the interview via my cell phone’s speakerphone. more…
Walking into a restaurant called Tokyo Seoul you may expect to find contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. In a way you find just that, depending on how you choose to enjoy your experience at the family run restaurant on the East side of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Kim met in Seoul, South Korea and just knew that the food they found there was fantastic. So fantastic that, back in Syracuse the school teacher and her husband opened up their very own restaurant. 
I love Mexican food. Not the Ortega boxed taco kits, although those are OK in a pinch. I’m talking some real tasty authentic Mexican. Where you get generous portions of rice and beans to accompany your tasty burrito, or heck how about some tostadas? You rarely find the flat tasty treat at the average Mexican joint, and for such a simple dish that’s a travesty. Those of us here in Syracuse have limited choice in Mexican fare. 
Anthony Bourdain is great at a lot of things, and one of them is getting me thinking. Sometimes it’s about rotten fish from Iceland, and other times it’s about my fantasy meal. When interviewed by the New York Post’s 
