Considering "Becoming a Chef"

Marlene gave me “The Flavor Bible” for my birthday (yesterday 😐 ) just before I left NYC on Tuesday the 28th. It is such an interesting compendium on flavor in food theory that I now want to learn more and have decided to get more of Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg’s culinary books. Will post […]

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Roast Duck Soup after a day at the library

Today I decided that I would scope out the nearest New York Public Library , which happened to be the really cool Jefferson Market Branch. I actually didn’t get much of a chance to walk around today, but tomorrow, I’m going to poke around the second floor tomorrow when I go back (I was working […]

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Jet lag, drug stores and fresh beets

Obviously, I’m going to have to do some amazing story telling in order to tie the words in that title together, yeah? No biggie. Here goes! Some of my friends have been so very kind to inquire relating to what I lovingly refer to as the “+1 project”. We are starting the next phase this […]

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Nearest cup of coffee

Thought I’d check out the Starbucks iGoogle gadget to see where the nearest shop to me here in the West Village was located. Of course, I knew where the nearest one would be, and the next nearest, and the next two. What I didn’t expect was this: Trust me when I tell you the island […]

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A little 4.4 mile walk to the WTC

Slept in today (okay, I had stayed up watching really crappy movies, but that requires sleeping in, right?) and instead of diving right into computer related work stuffs, I thought I’d take a quick walk, maybe find some food, and then come back to do the computerating. Well, I’ve finally realized that I’m more interested […]

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Book Review "Me: Stories of My Life"

My review rating: 3 of 5 stars Stories of My Life, Me by Katharine Hepburn Almost finished with this one. From the few interviews I’ve seen of Ms. Hepburn, most notably, the one from the Dick Cavet show (I believe in the 80’s?), her writing style is very much like her speaking style. Late in […]

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