Roger Coryell, Editor's Blog
Dear Tiki Tom's:
Hey there . . .
My wife and I have been to Tiki Tom's in Oakland three or four times before, and always enjoyed the place. Great location, good drinks, nice folks, good music, OK food, reasonably priced. We've been telling our friends about it.
But last night was the worst restaurant experience we've had in years. We ordered the ribeye, wife medium rare, myself medium. What we both got was nasty mealy shoe leather, "smothered" with burnt onion strings. Weird little paper thin…
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Posted on June 21, 2009 at 9:29am —
One night recently during the final days before the election, a bunch of us were working late here at KGO. There's a little "kitchen" area outside the talk studios, and suddenly a big pan of stuffing appeared in that area.
"Chef Marc snuck in with a batch of stuffing!" somebody said in the hallway. Being a real radio person, I'm a fool for free food, so I grabbed a plateful. Yum! Delicious.
So last week I had lunch with Chef Marc Vogel,
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Posted on November 25, 2008 at 2:24pm —
I tried Marc Vogel's recipe for high heat turkey last night. Wow! Best turkey I've ever cooked. Below is the recipe. Also be sure to check out Chef Marc's turkey video and more at http://chefmarc.com
High Heat Turkey
Directions for Chef Marc's Easy High Heat Turkey -Used by permission
Dry a 16 to 18 lb. turkey inside and out with paper towels.
Oil the turkey inside and out with any kind of vegetable oil (olive, canola, et
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Posted on November 24, 2008 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments
Back in the early 90s, I commuted every morning at 4 a.m. from Bolinas to downtown San Francisco, where I made my living playing yuppie jazz on the radio.
I would roll out of bed at an ungodly hour, get in my old Dodge van, and do my best to make it over Mount Tam without hitting a deer. At the bottom of the hill on the Mill Valley side, I would always stop at the Tam Valley 7-11. There's a whole story there, or three, about the Tam Valley 7-11. But today's story is about a guy who drove his wh…
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Posted on November 3, 2008 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments
When I was a kid, my folks used to have some serious dinner parties. Dad was a newspaper publisher in Albany, and all the New York state politicos would be there. What were they drinking? What was the governor drinking? Mateus. My sisters and I would "help" clear the tables, mostly just stealing the partial bottles and sucking them down. What can I say? So that was my introduction to wine.
Then my folks moved to Fresno, where they discovered Gallo Hearty Burgundy, in big jugs.And some kinda whi…
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Posted on October 23, 2008 at 7:30pm —
About Me
Hi! I'm the Director of Digital Media for KGO Radio, and also the webmaster, editor, and sales manager for DiningAround.com. This website is owned by Gene Burns, and operated in partnership with KGO.
I 'm a veteran radio personality, with 30 years on the air in and around Northern California, New York, and Vermont. My resume also includes stints as a chef, wedding planner, hotel manager, handyman, B&B operator, guerrilla horticulturist, and radio programming consultant . . . and I've started and sold a few successful Internet businesses.
I got interested in Internet marketing and technology in the early 90's, and in recent years, I have built and managed several award-winning radio station websites. In a way I have the best of both worlds, staying in radio but doing Internet work that I love.