Posts Tagged ‘David Mattera’
Mexican Food Just North of the Border
Richmond is approximately 1,450 miles to the nearest border with Mexico, just south of San Antonio, Texas. That being said, we live in a global world and our neighbor to the south has brought some fine cuisine to our neck of the woods. I mean, if you think about it, Vietnam is much farther (approximately [...]
Raw Fish with Rice
I remember distinctly thinking while in Italy that I didn’t trust the fish at the new sushi bar in town. I was in an old walled city that was relatively traditional despite a large student population and I felt like seafood couldn’t possibly be fresh since the town was not right on the beach and [...]
Eating on a Budget in a Budget Friendly Place
Richmond is not New York. It’s not even Paris or London. It’s much cheaper by comparison and so when you’re out of work and crunched for time between episodes of Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, you need to find places that offer good food for an even better price. And NOT FAST FOOD! Of course [...]
Breakfast: The Most Important, and Sometimes Only Necessary Meal of the Day
Richmond is in the Cultural South–the capital of the Confederacy, a group of states that fought to protect their right to work hard and maintain their thriving rural economy without Federal impediment forcing taxes down their throats and taking away their right to own guns or people. With this focus on hard work and farming [...]
July 4th Isn’t the Only Time to Barbecue
Happy belated Independence Day! Hope you enjoyed the summer heat and a few beverages and something grilled as our founding fathers might have done all those years ago. Second only to fireworks, barbecuing is among the most important 4th of July traditions–but it should by no means be the only time you light up the [...]
Fresh Local Produce in Every Corner of the City
Hello loyal Richmond eaters and readers. I apologize for my hiatus from posting but I was visiting Central America for a few weeks seeing what delicious morsels Costa Rica has to offer. To my chagrin, Costa Rican food, with the obvious exception of fresh fruit, is pretty bland and blasé. Now I’m back in Richmond [...]
Eating Meatless in Meat-filled World
Upon looking back over my past entries in this blog, I’ve noticed a bit of a pattern. My writing is looking a little…corporate—a little characterless and not so personal. I ask a lot of rhetorical questions and then answer them but I never really talk about me. Maybe that’s a good thing but this week, [...]
Chocolate
Once again, I feel it necessary to stray from food and talk a little about that top space on the food guide pyramid. Chocolate come from cacao beans—another bean that has to be imported from the far reaches of this planet to be processed and made into either Hershey’s milk chocolate on one end—with only [...]
A Little Bit of Spit in the Bottom of a Paper Cup: Espresso in Richmond
This week I’ve decided to take a break from food and write an article on something about which I am very passionate; coffee—specifically, espresso. Even more specifically, I’ll address where to get a decent cup of coffee in the capital city. Many people mistakenly believe that espresso comes from a different species of coffee bean [...]
Barbecue: A Journey Through the South for Your Mouth
I alluded to the fact that Virginia is void of her own unique style of barbecue in an earlier post but now I feel it appropriate to properly rant. What the heck is that?! Virginia, the place where the first Jamestown started what would become the US, the home of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Poe, Maury [...]

