Category Archives: Food Writing
Pleasantly Random…
Random encounters in big cities are often limited to arguing over parking spaces or commiserating with your line mates at Duane Reade when 4 of the 5 registered go unattended. Occasionally, you meet strangers in a more civil and pleasant … Continue reading
Filed under Food Writing, Restaurants
Nurungji…Snacking Korean Style
One of the great pleasures of being in a multi-cultural family has been learning about the food. I have become rather adept at eating, cooking and speaking Korean food. I have learned more about kimchi than any Italian-American boy from … Continue reading
Filed under Food Writing, With Recipes
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
Filed under Books, cookbooks, Food Writing, With Recipes
A Bumpy Start
My first food experience of 2011 was one of disappointment on an almost comic level. One could only laugh at the ineptitude and absolute distain the staff at the restaurant at the Big Bear Lodge in Masthope, PA had for … Continue reading
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ALCS Epilogue
So they lost. So we are hurting. One friend explained in his infinite wisdom how he still had to wake up this morning and clean his bathroom. I get it. I’ve been a baseball player, a baseball coach and a … Continue reading
Filed under alcs, baseball, Food Writing, NY Yankees, With Recipes, World Series
ALCS Chicken Recipe #6
The tough love we showed the Yanks during our Game 5 offering may have breathed some life into our hopes and superstitious hearts. The Yanks, tonight with Hughes on the hill, will have to remain the hunters if they are … Continue reading
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ALCS Chicken Recipe #5
You know when you give and you give and you get very little effort in return? You know frustration and anger and disappointment? The myth that Chicken has brought good luck to the Yankees is starting to wear out its … Continue reading
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ALCS Chicken Recipe #4
“I’m just sad that it’s not baseball season. This one would be good for an 8 game winning streak.” Those were the words I wrote when I posted this recipe back in December 2009. Of all the chicken I ate … Continue reading
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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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