From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Taste Memories

2007.Jul.30 Monday

 I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste – now that’s what I call memory!” – Morton Feldman, Composer Ann Arbor, Michigan – So, the reunion was a rollicking success, as we predicted it might be. Now, [...]

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Memories

2007.Jul.28 Saturday

 We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” – Tom Stoppard, playwright Ann Arbor, Michigan – It was a sign of the times. Only it used [...]

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Going Home?

2007.Jul.27 Friday

 There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.” – Bill Bryson, Writer Ann Arbor, Michigan – Many people have asked the question, “Can you go home again?” Just as [...]

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Not Joe’s Eats

2007.Jul.25 Wednesday

 I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.” – Emperor Ferdinand I, 16th Century Austrian monarch New York – Okay, everyone talks about Joe’s Shanghai when it comes to soup dumplings in New York. No question they’re good, but I find them just a bit too… soupy. For me, I like the restraint shown in [...]

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New and Improved

2007.Jul.24 Tuesday

Click here to purchase the SaltShaker Spanish – English – Spanish Food & Wine Dictionary The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking – it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available from a print on demand publisher. Hopefully it’ll get picked up by some folks like Amazon and others… [...]

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Much Ado About Brisket

2007.Jul.24 Tuesday

 Oh Lord please don’t burn us don’t kill or toast your flock Don’t put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock, Don’t bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok…” – Monty Python New York City – So, all the rage these days is barbecue in New York. On [...]

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Duck and Cover

2007.Jul.24 Tuesday

 If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” – Douglas Adams, British Comic Writer New York City – Here’s the thing. It was about the duck. The Peking Duck to [...]

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Lost Opportunity

2007.Jul.22 Sunday

 The only thing I learned from his books is that once the word is written it’s going to be held against you for the next hundred years, … All along I thought this is not my story about living in Provence; it’s a woman coming to terms with changing circumstances against a backdrop that happens [...]

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Fish Gotta Swim…

2007.Jul.19 Thursday

New York City – Little to comment on, I’ve reviewed Kanoyama in the past when it was under the name Koi. It’s just better each time I’ve been to the place over the years. A trio of us when in for an amazing selection of sushi and sashimi that ranged from a whole red snapper [...]

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