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Last of the cookie monsters

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

..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

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..

..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..

..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

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?

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..

..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

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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Clock of the long prandium

When left to my own accord and enjoying prandium at home every day,—with weekly sojourns to green market and dearly Fairway ensuring the matter—regulates itself into six or so small dishes. We’ll calculate the beans of it someday. From this … Continue reading

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Pomegranate?

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Not Miro

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Lyrical poulet

Recently my writing was compared to song lyrics. So in honor of this fine insult and its holy source, here’s a little diddy for you and you and you.. My Poulet By Fifi Collective, dedicated to the Temptations and Sin … Continue reading

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Mala suerte para el huevo

Mala provecho..

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How much would you pay..

..for peppers like these? They’re free! On a night trash touring with freegans somewhere in Upstate Manhattan these peppers were gleaned along with fresh pineapple, cantaloupe, oranges, lemons, apples, lettuce, cabbage, bread,.. As a ‘member of the media’ I agreed … Continue reading

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Gandules verdes

This afternoon two special guests shared with me how to prepare Dominican style beans. The approach was the classic and holistic style to teach and learn cooking—my guests cooked and I watched. There is much to write. Soon I’ll share … Continue reading

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Prandium exposed

UPDATE: The photo has been changed as of September 02008. If you’re wondering, and since folks have asked, perhaps you are.. What is that a picture of at the top of my site? When I first read about prandium* early … Continue reading

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When life gives you meyers..

..the honey still drizzles..

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Poabastea

We’re debating if the fish Girl, cooked tonight was baked or poached. She laid in a pyrex baking dish a fine filet of haddok with olio, capers, cilantro, and some leftover white zin. Her newly proprietary recipe-in-development is not available … Continue reading

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Fancy little stars

There is much to be said for the power of comfort food—but I won’t. The last hundred paws of a brisk and long walk with poodles included a debate to introduce the Cotswold to pastina. I did, then said a … Continue reading

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Chilé relleno burrito

If you live near this Mexican kitchen,—it’s located on route 1 somewhere between Pismo Beach and Guadalupe, I think—I suggest you eat their chilé relleno burrito. I cannot get the memory of its taste out of my mouth. I must … Continue reading

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Bad Mexican in Salinas

If you live in Salinas, or are traveling through to meet Rocinante I suggest you do not make the turn off onto the auxiliary road, but keep on rolling into town. They serve what may be, to me, the worst … Continue reading

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