PhotosVideo:TIN FORK: The pie of the beholder at Queenstown PiesJust back from New Zealand, where I went crazy…on meat pies. (They’re called “pot pies” back here.) If there’s a national dish Down Under, pies are …
November 14, 2024
Articles by Ed Bedford
Pie pleasure at Queenstown Public House
Commi serves food for the people
Video:TIN FORK: WINSTON GABON, manager of Commi Restaurant in Christchurch, New ZealandIt’s on the walls! That glorious revolutionary time when young idealists marched with flags sweeping over their heads, hope and defiance in their eyes, …
August 1, 2024
Peter King lives a cell-free life
Video:GOLDEN DREAMS: Peter King lives a cell-free lifeNew Zealand is nothing if not tech-forward. Early this year, it recorded 6.84 million cellular mobile connections. That’s 130.3 percent of the population (5.124 million people.) But don’t …
July 19, 2024
A taste of America on the other side of the world
Video:TIN FORK: A taste of America on the other side of the worldSomehow, not being in America, this place feels all the more American. I’m in a diner,, and it feels like a kind of …
July 18, 2024
Ed Bedford snacks on snails
Video:Ed Bedford snacks on snailsThis is weird. I’m sitting here looking out over the Port from pretty much exactly where some photographer, back on March 24, 1882, pulled the cap off his giant camera lens …
July 4, 2024
Dobson’s puts its soup in a song
Video:TIN FORK: Dobson's Bar and RestaurantIt’s not often that a restaurant commissions a song in honor of itself. But Marcos Luciano, the Mexico City-born restaurateur who took over Dobson’s Bar and Restaurant from the man …
June 20, 2024
Ed Bedford gorges on Gaetano’s before taking off
Five minutes to midnight. The plane starts backing out. At last. It’s gonna be a 16-hour haul, and I’m already hongry. Just spent three hours at Wolfgang Puck’s WPizza bar in LAX, waiting for this …
June 6, 2024
Kiko’s Place gets a new space
Video:TIN FORK: Kiko’s Place gets a new space downtown on C Street. The OG fish taco is still just $3.50.My true love Diane and I have been to Kiko’s Place — the food truck near …
May 16, 2024
Chocolate chili champ at the Thousand Trails Pio Pico Campground south of Jamul
“You ever seen a prettier car show than this?” asks Tim. He’s into cars. We’re walking among antique and vintage classics parked in this brilliant green meadow, under trees, with the smell of wildflowers mixing …
May 2, 2024