Jenn Garbee

Ya, Duke won the NCAA title. Barely. That Butler half court heave at the buzzer was about as close as you can get to popping the Champagne without a bottle opener. Thus, Squid Ink offers you a Barely Blue Devils/Almost Bulldogs cocktail for your Tuesday night sipping pleasure. An appropriate......

Breaking News: Despite gastrointestinal evidence indicating otherwise, the chili dog is not invincible. According a Los Angeles Times report, Pink's Hot Dogs was robbed at 3:35 yesterday morning. Thankfully no injuries were reported, presumably no customers were around (the stand had already closed) and all chili dogs have been accounted......

As soon as we realized that no, we were not on a cruise ship sans Dramamine, Squid Ink did what we suspect most folks do during an earthquake: we lunged for the few prized bottles of Russian River Pinot still remaining from a particularly overindulgent Napa Valley/Sonoma trip. Which brings......

You'll occasionally score green almonds, those spring almonds that look like fuzzy uncured olives with a soft nut that you pop out to snack on, at the farmer's market this time of year. But rarely do farmers appear with the even younger version, those with merely a jelly-like idea of......

There are marshmallow peeps, and then there are Jacques Torres' dark chocolate tuxedo clad peeps (rather unfortunately named Chirp n' Dales, but hey, it's Jacques Torres). The deadline for Easter shipment from Mr. Chocolate, as he dubs both himself and his New York-based online store, has already passed. Not to......

Japanese Cocktails by Kuri Kato is a curious new cocktail book that we sort of love, and like many "sponsored" books, sort of tire of quickly. There are certainly some intriguing recipes like the Aloe Margarita (recipe after the jump) that we can't wait to shake up on one of......

Suggesting wines to pair with that ham we know you are brining right this minute for Easter brunch can be a real bear pig, in part because there are so many varieties -- sugar glazed or savory, dry or wet cured, and prepared in a seemingly infinite variety of ways......

As Easter is less than a week away, Squid Ink feels compelled to forewarn you: Embark on ham-speak with Jean Francois Meteigner, executive chef-owner of La Cachette Bistro in Santa Monica, with caution. The French chef will tell you what a good ham is, and what it is not. And......

Tuesday seems like a fine day to release a new miniseries, so Squid Ink is offering up the first in its limited run "Don't Look, Just Eat (or Drink)" series. This dramedy's main characters are those edibles that taste so much better than they look (yes, heaping bowl of stewed......

Welcome to Merlot March Madness. Squid Ink has been training for weeks, swirling and sipping -- definitely not spitting -- to come up with just the right wines to drink during the Road to the Final Four. Why Merlot? It's just so college basketball friendly -- a wine with none......