New Year’s Dinner
Posted on December 31, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Many of you have probably already enjoyed your New Year’s Eve repast, as have I, but I wanted to check in after a week of re-establishing my site outside of the Blogger.com limitations.
I had Thai food for dinner, mostly [...]
Back Up and Running
Posted on December 30, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Hi to all and Happy New Year!
The site/blog is functional again, though I’m still working out some bugs (for instance, the Archives, which weren’t working until a minute or so ago). It’s on my own hosting account and being updated through WordPress now, so I have a much more robust means of communication at my [...]
Trends for 2006
Posted on December 28, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
The Orange County Register asked Phyllis Ann Marshall, a restaurant consultant, to discuss the major food and cooking trends of 2006, and she came up with five, not that I agree with or understand all of them.
The first was called “global change” and didn’t make a lot of sense unless you whip egg whites. The [...]
A Dubious Selection Process
Posted on December 27, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
There they go again. They being, of course, the Los Angeles Times, and no, I’m not referring to the newspaper’s politics but its food section. Today, the section sported a feature on 2006’s “Ten Best Recipes.†The recipes are listed without any explanation of who chose them or how they were chosen; [...]
Read More..>>Happy Holidays to All
Posted on December 26, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I’ve been off like the rest of you no doubt on holiday business, and it is business. It’s easier to work that make the year-end holidays successful! Plus, you have to work for half a year or so to catch up on the expenses.
I did manage to have some great pork and beef tamales from [...]
How to Improve Your Wine’s Flavor
Posted on December 22, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
This just in–there are now two devices claiming to improve the flavor of your wine by simply attaching them at the neck or mouth (depending on gadget) of the bottle.
One is called the Wine Clip and can be ordered, not unexpectedly, at The Wine Clip. The site at least has some wine mavens’ testimony [...]
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Posted on December 20, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
One drink I’ve come to respect and enjoy through the intervention of a forensic accountant at a bar one afternoon is the old fashioned. He claimed it was the first mixed drink in America–maybe anywhere–and there is some credence to the belief that it was the first cocktail, at least of the American ilk. [...]
Read More..>>Caviar and Champagne
Posted on December 18, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I just watched Sunset Boulevard, the classic 1950 take on Hollywood and what it can do to people, and noticed that Norma Desmond–the silent film queen who fills the story–loved to serve champagne and caviar. My, how the times have changed. You can’t even buy Beluga caviar anymore, and good champagne (the real [...]
Read More..>>Ham for the Holidays
Posted on December 15, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I’ve been in an e-mail battle with my ex-girlfriend in Canada who has chosen to cook lamb, Cornish game hen and ham for her family’s Christmas. I’m sticking to the turkey, but thinking of adding ham. However, I’m not talking ham shank or etc., but a ham steak grilled on the barbecue a [...]
Read More..>>Fondue a Fond Memory
Posted on December 14, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
There once existed a fondue restaurant here in the greater Los Angeles area, Westwood to be specific, but as the 1970s wore on and the health-slash-running craze took over the so-called Golden State, at least the bottom half of it, such cooking was considered too unhealthy. The restaurant specifically and fondue in general faded, [...]
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