From the monthly archives:

September 2005

That’s one big bowl o’ Pasta

2005.Sep.24 Saturday

Louisville, Kentucky – I’ve been out of the midwest for 23 years, and rarely make it back there, or to the bible belt. Except on occasional visits to family members, I have a tendency to forget that many of the folk of those regions are, well, large. Girth, that is. A lot of the cause [...]

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Foul or Fowl?

2005.Sep.24 Saturday

Louisville, Kentucky – Who’s the turkey with a taste for homicide? So reads the subtitle on Mary Daheim’s Fowl Prey. Publisher’s Weekly referred to it as “light and cozy fare.” Given my experience with the last two “murder mysteries” I barely wanted to crack the wishbone on this one. The subtitle wasn’t helping. Thankfully, I [...]

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Fish as it was meant to be

2005.Sep.23 Friday

New York City – For my last night back in New York there was clearly no other option than to have a really exceptional sushi dinner. My friends Efraim and Efrat, from the building I used to live in. joined me at one of our favorite places in the East Village, Koi, 175 2nd Avenue. [...]

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boi oh boi

2005.Sep.23 Friday

New York City – Pair up a third generation chef from a Saigon family of restaurateurs and one of New York’s better pastry chefs and you’re in for some truly fascinating creations. Welcome to bôi, 246 East 44th Street. Situated roughly midway between Grand Central Station and the United Nations, this hot little Vietnamese fusion [...]

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The Real McCoy

2005.Sep.22 Thursday

New York City – It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in New York for a full week and haven’t gotten out for a bagel! Maybe I wasn’t missing them as much as I thought I was. But I found myself in the East Village this morning and decided to stop in at an old [...]

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Chocoholic Mystery

2005.Sep.22 Thursday

New York City – Continuing on with my reading of “first novels” of food related mysteries, I moved on to JoAnna Carl’s The Chocolate Cat Caper. Her name is a pseudonym for a “multipublished mystery writer.” That worried me right off the bat. This is supposed to be a mystery. She, or he, is a [...]

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Cozy Murders?

2005.Sep.21 Wednesday

New York City – I was given advice by someone who supposedly knows about such things. So I took it. I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a novel that has a lot of food and wine in it, but is something in the vein of a thriller, or murder mystery, or crime sort [...]

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Flaying the Brasserie

2005.Sep.20 Tuesday

New York City – I was a big fan of Judson Grill, back in the day. Chris Cannon moved on to other things – putting together the Bar Veloce projects, and then L’Impero and Alto with Scott Conant. Bill Telepan is soon to be opening his eponymous restaurant. The space (152 West 52nd Street) has [...]

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Rootin’ Tootin’ Rigatoni

2005.Sep.19 Monday

New York City – I have had a connection with chef Cesare Casella, of Beppe, through a couple of friends who have managed the restaurant since its inception, and he’s become a friend of mine as well. He’s been talking for the last year about opening his own place and making food that is a [...]

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