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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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Citrus sisters

Posted on February 12, 02008 by Daily Prandium

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong … Continue reading →

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My sister will love this one

Posted on January 18, 02008 by Daily Prandium

This is dedicated to my sister. When we swam in the family pond as tadpoles, she told me she’d go through my things and laugh at my lists. Well, I’m listing less now and this comes kind of late into … Continue reading →

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Huevo

Posted on January 16, 02008 by Daily Prandium

Did you boil some eggs last night Rise at the buzzer and crack one open This will be your snooze bar Tap roll it along the counter in your flattened palm See if you can wedge the shells off in … Continue reading →

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