All this time I’ve been doing it wrong…
February 5, 2010All this time I’ve been doing it wrong…
Tags: food, howto, monkey, video
June 2, 2008Do you know your Andouillete from your French Andouille? Your Kishke from your Grutzwurst? If you do, I’m sorry. If not, you need the Cook’s Thesaurus of Sausage as much as I did.
February 29, 2008Doesn’t a fresh, colorful salad look much tastier in the proper meaty container?
February 10, 2008If it was good enough for Elvis…

September 30, 2007The Joey Roth moka pot… not sure that I would ever use it, but it sure looks cool.
July 20, 2007Tags: food
May 22, 2007Not long ago, I attempted to mimic some cooking as it is done in a number of relatively recent novels. I began, foolishly, with several recipes from Günter Grass’s Nobel Prize-provoking “The Flounder,†the epic allegory of German history told through the endlessly repeated parable of an evil fish, a gullible man, a virtuous woman, and a lot of potatoes.
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I’ve made some recipes right out of Parker’s Spenser novels myself. I credit the witty detective with inspiring my love for Johnny Cakes with butter and good maple syrup (among other things), the recipe for which can be found in the Unofficial Spenser Cookbook.
May 17, 2007David Weinstock has a cocoa conundrum.