Archive for the ‘Food’ category
Sweet tooth
I hate Halloween.
I hate having to come up with some stupid costume idea, worrying if it’s too silly or obvious or cryptic. Even when I was a kid, selecting a costume always seemed to me like an afterthought, an evil that was necessary to partake in the holiday ritual. My costumes were always easy, half-assed. [...]
Overcooked
I think I have “Project Runway” to blame. After season three ended, I showed up at the same time to the same channel, like a lover that is not quite ready to say goodbye. And, like a lover that can always be counted on for a good time, Bravo was there for me. Bravo!
They offered [...]
Sweets and cheap eats on the Lower East Side
Earlier this fall I set out with a group of students to survey cheap eats and sweets on the Lower East Side. In spite of constant weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over the gentrification of this neighborhood — which for hundreds of years has been the home of one immigrant group after another — [...]
What we eat
Just about everyone I know’s got a special food plan for the fall. One friend’s not eating gluten. Another gave up booze for a couple weeks. One fine fellow walked around with a sports bottle full of cayenne water and lemon until his eyes were red. Some other folks I know go South Beach periodically, [...]
Favorite books recently read
The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Michael Pollan’s treatise on where our food comes from and the ethics involved in what we eat is simultaneously troubling, entertaining, and thought provoking. Twenty pages into the book, it will also have the careful reader considering every bite they put into their mouths. Pollan takes the mundane [...]
Recipe for an Indian Summer holiday weekend*
In the spirit of holiday posts past, I offer up recipes — one for the perfect weekend, the other for something to eat throughout it.
The weekend, first:
1. When you realize it’s going to be 87 degrees on Saturday, stop thinking “October” and head for the beach. You may have to drag your kids away from [...]
Buenos Aires and the Bush daughters in heat
Where do you go for spring break? I know the question is quite untimely, but deal with it, I wrote this a few months ago, but never got around to editing and linking it. Now with last week’s news that Jenna Bush is engaged to be married, this post is suddenly quite timely again. Not [...]
Crab camp
The Question: How has a mild-mannered boy like me, never prone to guns or fishing or traditional masculine sport in general, wound up each summer on the hunt for crabs near the San Juan Islands on the Washington coast? That’s what I love to do come mid-August, and have done half a dozen times since [...]
