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Christa Glennie Seychew: October 2010 Archives

food October 17, 2010 10:25 AM

Western New Yorkers love to eat. We especially love to eat at restaurants, as evidenced by our overwhelming number of independently-owned dining options. In arguably shinier parts of the country, chains drown out the competition, leaving no room for the little guy. But not here. We love the old, time-worn establishments serving up food like our grandmothers made just as much as we care for the new and polished locales with innovative offerings. We also hold dear many of the restaurants that land somewhere between.

The only thing that we might appreciate more than food and restaurants is a good deal. There has never been a shortage of good deals to be had, either. Coupons and mailers were once the standard, but with the advent of the internet, dining deals have evolved. Still, there are some discomforts that come with most of these offerings. They don't really allow for spontaneity, since you have to be at a computer with a printer in order to take advantage of them. Additionally,

City October 15, 2010 10:43 AM

Local Entrepreneur "Doing the Right Thing"

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Many of you will recall the post in late August where we wrote about restaurateur Tucker Curtin's ideas for turning an unused property on the Outer Harbor into a food processing facility. While his dreams of really opening up the waterfront for year round recreation and other attractions haven't changed a bit, his belief that the NFTA "holds our waterfront hostage" and shows no "genuine desire" to work with innovators like himself continues to prove frustrating. "I don't believe that even a quarter of the ideas that

food October 7, 2010 7:50 AM

Canners Come Together

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Monday evening Buffalo Rising hosted its first-ever Can You Can?, an event designed to encourage those that make the effort to can and preserve the fruits and vegetables of the harvest season. The party, held on the upper level of Delish Cooking School & Pastry Shop, was well attended with more than 25 guests and over 30 canned entries.

Folks arrived with boxes full of treasured food goods--jams, pickles, dilly beans and a whole slew of unique items. Everyone

food October 2, 2010 8:10 AM

Refire: Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

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--Refire is restaurant lingo used to describe food that is returned to the kitchen. Here on Buffalo Rising, it will define an occasional Saturday post that revisits an interesting food story from the Buffalo Rising archives.

This post ran in October of 2007, a time before the word "locavore" had yet to officially enter the American vocabulary and where the trend of "eating local" had just begun to surface in Western New York--that is, apart from the people, like many of our grandparents and great-grandparents, who knew the

food October 1, 2010 1:01 PM

Serious Eats Weighs in on Weck

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Yesterday we told you about superfoodblog Serious Eats' recent visit to Buffalo's premier donut shop, Paula's. It looks like their editors did more than stop in for a late night cruller.

Today their leading with a slideshow and story about our second most famous niche food item (following the chicken wing, of course) the classic Beef on Weck. They hit up Schwabl's,