Category Archives: food

Culinary automata

My kitchen is relatively large by Parisian standards (which really only means that two people can stand in it (but not really work simultaneously in it)), but it is typical in that it doesn’t have a built-in oven, or much counter space. I don’t even have a microwave. I do think, however, that I would [...]
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Please be advised:

Please be advised: I am the friend of the stomach!
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New Look

I’ve spent a bit of time changing around how things look, to reflect the fact that I’m now in Paris.  I have so much to write about, but for now, I leave you with CHEESE.  That is all.
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a wine post

A friend of mine works at a wine shop in Chelsea called “Appellation” which carries mostly organic and biodynamic wine.  Because I’m frequently in the area, I often drop in to see her and pick up a bottle.  I end up getting whatever she recommends because I trust her taste, and it gets me to [...]
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the impost-ah lobst-ah

So it seems that when you drive north of here along the coast, you run into people who substitute some kind of long [a] for the syllabic [r] in word final position. And these people are up in arms about the “langostino lobster” which is starting to appear on menus, often just called “lobster” — [...]
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Uzbeki food

A few nights ago I was eating dinner in an Uzbeki restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens. Although I standardly do not eat meat other than what comes out of the sea, I’m preparing for a trip to Argentina in January where I won’t be able to resist asado. So anyway, the plan was to re-acclimate [...]
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I think I’m over the clams thing

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px; } Me in a beer cooler, originally uploaded by thatgirl. I had some littlenecks, raw on the halfshell, with lemon juice and cocktail sauce, standing on the boardwalk at Coney Island, [...]
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