Category Archives: Books

Hometown Treasures…

People give me and send me a lot of information about food. Websites, links to blogs, recipes, magazine articles and especially cookbooks. Everybody has a cookbook…well everyone except me…but just about everybody else has a cookbook. I recently I received … Continue reading

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Cookbook Pix…Yea or Nay?

Come over to the DJ and participate in our discussion on whether or not cookbooks need to have photos to capture your attention. Our friend Melissa Clark tossed out the question on Twitter and we are running with it.

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ALCS Chicken Recipe #3

With the Game 2 loss and the prospect of a tough game against Lee…I’m countering with Chang. David Chang has taken the downtown restaurant scene by storm over the past few years and like the Yanks he is pure NY. … Continue reading

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ALDS Chicken Recipe #2

Tex in the 7th, Mo in the 8th and 9th and we are off and running again.  With their opening come-from-behind victory over the Twins the Yanks picked up where they left off last October.  It seems our opening combo … Continue reading

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ALDS Chicken Recipe #1

Last October, when the Yankees were making their run to their 27th World Series Championship we piggy-backed onto the famed superstitions of former Yankee third baseman Wade Boggs (note here the omission of those other teams Boggs played for) for … Continue reading

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Living by the Food Rules

In retrospect, it was one of those serendipitous moments. I was returning from a week long binge eating and drinking bender in New Orleans, sick with some horrid stomach ailment and ragged from lack of quality REM time. I walked … Continue reading

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