Tag Archives: food

Vermont rural food systems—from milk to maple

Posted on March 14, 02008 by Daily Prandium

A group of eleven from my graduate program are heading to Vermont this weekend. We will spend a week traveling about visiting farms and artisanal producers as part of a one week intensive course. The class is an informal exchange … Continue reading →

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Sixty days makes a habit

Posted on March 13, 02008 by Daily Prandium

An old roommate of mine struggled to maintain good eating habits and an exercise routine. His diet essentially consisted of greasy delivery food and too much alcohol. A meticulous diet analysis I conducted over a month sitting on my bookcase … Continue reading →

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Soft bites before bed

Posted on March 12, 02008 by Daily Prandium

bon nuit..

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Commercial hits—A new birth..

Posted on March 11, 02008 by Daily Prandium

..control pill makes the claim it is the first drug proven for premenstrual symptoms, including potassium deficiency. This is what Daily Prandium prescribes if you’re concerned about your potassium levels.. Buen provecho..

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The self, the other, and the beans that bind

Posted on March 10, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Daily Prandium is back on the bean trail. Today I am preparing Dominican style beans that my friend B’s mother and aunt taught me to make a few weeks ago. I know. It’s been a long time since they came … Continue reading →

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Auction eats

Posted on March 9, 02008 by Daily Prandium

During college I worked for auctioneers in Los Angeles and here on the East coast. It was a great way to make some money and to learn about American art pottery and metal, and quarter-sawn oak Mission furniture, among other … Continue reading →

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Long live Sweet-n-Tart

Posted on March 7, 02008 by Daily Prandium

I was downtown this afternoon for some meetings and had time to be like a pigeon and navigate around Chinatown. I decided it was time to investigate where my favourite snack shop moved to. No pigeon navigation was required for … Continue reading →

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A quick and simple weekday dish

Posted on March 6, 02008 by Daily Prandium

There is no microwave in my kitchen. And per the slippery slope that is a recently evolving Law & Order habit, I will never put a microwave in there. Perhaps this analogy seems a stretch, but until two years ago, … Continue reading →

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Not your French aunt’s salade niçoise

Posted on March 5, 02008 by Daily Prandium

I became a French citizen today. My father is French and recently he renewed his paperwork. We’ve been gathering papers for better part of a year so I could also get an EU French passport. Now I am a citizen. … Continue reading →

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Posted on March 4, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Do you know this one? A friend and his wife shared with me after dinner the other night. It’s a real sentence. If you don’t believe me, check out about it here.. Bon nuit..

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Not so fancy

Posted on March 3, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Well, my fancy little stars recipe didn’t hold up very well to the likes of fast food inspired smack’n’cheese recipes. Check out the top scoring recipes. They all sound utterly disgusting to me. But then again I didn’t grow up … Continue reading →

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Gotham ice cream

Posted on March 2, 02008 by Daily Prandium

I invented this dish last year. It was inspired by a dish served for brunch at Tennessee Mountain. Georgia ice cream was essentially a bowl of grits with eggs and cheddar baked on top. It was pure mouthfeel and yumness. … Continue reading →

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Last of the cookie monsters

Posted on March 1, 02008 by Daily Prandium

This past Thursday I attended the taping of the Martha Stewart show. I discovered how ahead of the curve Daily Prandium is with the mini cookie monster series. Martha is publishing a new book on cookies and is promoting it … Continue reading →

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Late winter/early spring foraging

Posted on March 1, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Today turned out to be a beautiful day for foraging in Central Park. It was occasionally sunny and warm enough to wear light layers–a one puffy day. Though it is a little early in the season and the edibles are … Continue reading →

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Gotham foraging season opens today—March 1

Posted on March 1, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Wildman Steve Brill and the gang are meeting at the Central Park entrance at 72nd street at 11:45 EST today. It’s the Wildman’s 26th season giving tours and teaching about the wild edibles that abound in our great city. Check … Continue reading →

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Do you know this man?

Posted on February 29, 02008 by Daily Prandium

A dozen meyer lemons to the first person who guesses who this is? A big hero of mine who is free of omnivorous dilemmas..

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A bite for SKINdrop

Posted on February 28, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Some years ago a dear friend of mine left Gotham and headed west. After visiting her sister in Breckenridge, Colorado she decided to stay and set up shop there. She worked at a spa in town for a while establishing … Continue reading →

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Fat replacer in baked goods

Posted on February 27, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Dovetailing from yesterdays guilty pleasure confessional and in keeping with a baked goods theme, here is an abstract from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. An experiment I partnered on in food studies lab in fall 0’06 was submitted … Continue reading →

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Cookie monster would be proud

Posted on February 26, 02008 by Daily Prandium

More on the guilty pleasure trail.. A larder full of cookies and nothing to snack. Isn’t that always the way. Since returning from tree dodging and wind chasing in California I’ve wound up with seven packages of cookies. I recall … Continue reading →

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Busted

Posted on February 25, 02008 by Daily Prandium

I swear I did not eat the fuzzy pink loaf in the upper right corner. Just couldn’t bring myself to take so much as a nibble. But I admit to an occasional weakness for those Swedish meatballs of unknown bovine … Continue reading →

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Millet cakes

Posted on February 24, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Cafe Orline is a place I’ve been going to for brunch for years now. It’s a popular spot in the East Village. Artists, actors, and generally cute and interesting folks eat there. So it makes for great people watching if … Continue reading →

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Biohazard beware

Posted on February 23, 02008 by Daily Prandium

A recently published conclusive and irrefutable study shows females in their mid-to-late thirties with a last name beginning with the letter Q who eat Liberté yogourt are subject to severe and potentially life questioning reactions. All Liberté yogourts, especially those … Continue reading →

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Green dreams

Posted on February 22, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Sneak attack snow day in Gotham today. So have a little green from past summer to synaesthete warm breeze over chilly skin. Salut to warm, light, and bright days someday again in Gotham’s future..

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Phone book of the dead

Posted on February 21, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Gust Vasiliades April 10, 01965 – February 21, 02004 Today a candle is burning in my makeshift window shrine for Gust. It’s been four years since he passed. I woke at dawn that morning and sat straight up. It was … Continue reading →

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City chickens and urban bees..

Posted on February 20, 02008 by Daily Prandium

..or is it urban chickens and city bees. I suppose it’s no matter. You and you and you were not there. It’s been a long time coming, but this evening I finally popped my Slow Food cherry and attended a … Continue reading →

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How apropos of the lunar eclipse

Posted on February 19, 02008 by Daily Prandium

There will be a full lunar eclipse Wednesday night. Beginning around nine pm my time the earth and sun will come into alignment and cast its umbra across the moon which will also be in lockstep. By ten pm and … Continue reading →

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When it rains in Gotham..

Posted on February 18, 02008 by Daily Prandium

..there’s sunshine in here. The infamous honeybells finally arrived. Indeed I’ve already finished one flat of the four. For sure I am in fruitarian mode eating a few or four or five of these and Italian fruilkiwi each day. Though … Continue reading →

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Birthday prandium..

Posted on February 16, 02008 by Daily Prandium

..for a little poodle. How does a blind sword wielding enlightened one—Bodhi Zatoichi—who turned two years old and is now a man dog spend a birthday? Begin with getting his pack leader a café con leche before a hike and … Continue reading →

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Honor The Nick

Posted on February 15, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Nicholas Louis Caruso February 9, 01916 – February 15, 01995 The Nick—my first kindred love from another place and time—who learned to cook by the Greeks and was their go between with the Jews to order meats because theirs was … Continue reading →

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Chocolat?

Posted on February 14, 02008 by Daily Prandium

This car is bitter-sweeter than any box of chocolats. In 01992 it was for sale fifteen minutes from the pond I, hardly bigger than a polliwog, swam around in. Back then I was driving the Friendly Bleu ovloV and simply … Continue reading →

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Warm, roast chicken tuchus..

Posted on February 14, 02008 by Daily Prandium

..shared among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. Not quite a quote by George Sand

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Qu’ils dure toujours

Posted on February 14, 02008 by Daily Prandium

I rode the A home another evening after seeing Juno at Gotham Square theater. An old chaika got on and sat next to me. We happened to be traveling to the same stop. She started chatting and told me she’d … Continue reading →

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Saving miles

Posted on February 13, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Despite membership within the movements of food—ecological, sustainable, local, and what eat you—where my contributions to date boils down to the foods I think, the foods I procure, prepare, and eat, the writing, discoursing, and work I’ve done, and the … Continue reading →

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