Stuff about books or articles I’ve read, shows or movies I’ve watched – usually food or wine related, but not always.
A round-up of some of my recent food reading. Pollan, Michael (April 28, 2009) In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Setting aside that in some ways this is another book with more of the same diet advice that’s been published in countless books, the most interesting part of this is that not only… Read More Cooking the Books #2
Like my new little series of “Bite Marks” for mini-restaurant reviews, I’m trying to be a bit more organized, and I thought I’d start with doing much the same with book (and other media) reviews. Let them be gathered together and all that…. So I have this vague recollection that a few years ago someone… Read More Cooking the Books #1
Started off last week on another walkabout with the intent to snap a photo every 100 paces or so. Almost immediately decided it would be more interesting to snap photos of people on the streets – it was a beautiful day, everyone was out. But, I’d not brought along my zoom lens, so at that… Read More New Friends on the Street
Dan Perlman: Dark Meat Chicken and Celery Kevin Hopp: Potatoes and Cilantro Dan: It was time for round four of our online cooking competition, and we’d just simultaneously tossed off our picks for the challenge ingredients. This one was hard. It doesn’t look like it should be – no weird ingredients, nothing out of the… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #4
It was lonely on the ‘net that night. Back from vacation and mi compadre Kevin Hopp and I had planned out another evening video “competition”. Our two previous stabs at this had gone well – we both had fun cooking, we had a few folk join us to chat, and this time there was even… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #3
As part of playing around with my camera, one of the suggested projects that I got was to take a walk, and every 100 paces, stop, look around, and take a photo of something that catches your eye. I found that 100 paces worked out to just around a block or slightly more, which made… Read More And I would walk 500 miles 100 paces
Ding, Ding, Ding! It’s on to Round Two of the great TMCIC challenge! (Somebody please come up with a better name for this thing.) For those who missed it all last time, the gist of it all is that a friend of mine, Kevin Hopp, and I, take on a sort of “invention test” with… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #2
A friend of mine, Kevin Hopp, who used to live here in BA and now lives in the Florida Keys, proposed that we come up with a sort of online cooking competition. But not really a competition, because we’re more than a few kilometers apart, and no one can really do much more than judge… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #1