“Do not seethe (boil) a kid in its mother’s milk.” Oh, the conundrums that this passage from the Torah has created. I’m no scholar of the subject, though I certainly studied a fair amount of it growing up. At its heart, this is one of the three kosher laws (the other being the prohibitions against… Read More Meat and Milk
“It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.” – Eric Hoffer, philosophical writer Initially I was going to call this “New Kids on the Block”, but then I realized that the kids aren’t… Read More New Sandboxes
Following last week’s little whinge on the artistry of plates, it seems that the internet responded with a little counter-slap. First, The Guardian presents the results of an Oxford study that shows that not only do people like their plates to look pretty, but subjectively, they’re perfectly willing to pay more for artistically arranged plates,… Read More Coloring Outside the Lines
Throw out everything you know about making pasta. That was pretty much the advice given to me when I started looking into making my own ramen noodles. And, it’s more or less true. In fact, as I was making these favorite slurpable noodles, all I kept thinking was, this is all wrong, it’s never going… Read More The Ramen Bowl
It’s time once again to play that game, Roundup of Bites. Not that we have that game, but hey, let’s make everything a game. Speaking of which, a couple of people asked about what happened to our new online Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef series (seriously, one of you has to give me a better name for that, and… Read More Roundup of Bites
Although we’ve stopped posting just key flavors as a menu preview and gone back to actually listing the planned dishes (still subject to last minute alterations for any of a variety of reasons), there still is at least a key flavor behind each dish. Sometimes more than one, but usually something that is the star.… Read More Trout Peanut Mushroom Garlic Passionfruit
We’ll go in for a a group of pizza spots this time around, moving the great 92 bus pizza trek ever forward. We pick up again in Caballito on the return leg of the journey. (49) So the first spot (at least that’s open during the day, I still have to decide what I’m going… Read More 92 Bus, Stops 49 – 53
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