Category: food & drinks

  • vacation food porn #17-#21

    The vacation food porn series is ending with #21. My favorite was the cotoletta alla milanese (#14).  Scroll back to look at #1 through #21, and let us know which are your favorites.  We did not eat all these dishes, a few were eaten by a couple on their honeymoon who joined us for dinner

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  • “gristly, slithery, slimy, squelchy, crunchy, gloopy”

    These are some terms that many english speakers describe the texture of certain Chinese dishes that they find disgusting (e.g., sea cucumber), according to Fuchsia Dunlop’s sweet-sour memoir “Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper”. I just finished the book in which she dedicated a full chapter (Ch. 8 The Rubber Factor) to tackle an often-maligned characteristics

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  • vacation food porn #12-#16

    And the series continues with lots of lamb … vacation food porn #12 – lamb cutlets, romesco sauce, potato vacation food porn #13 – salmon roquette and croutons with olives and balsamic vinegar extract vacation food porn #14 – cotoletta alla milanese vacation food porn #15 – lasagna with aromatic herbs, lamb stew, porcini and

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  • Banana Flambe – Betty Don’t Die

    Sue organized a surprise birthday dinner with friends for me at Les Halles at Park Avenue last night. The evening concluded with desserts, one of which was the banana flambe prepared tableside. Our waitress wheeled over a little serving trolley with stove, and parked it next to Betty.  Sprinkled with powered sugar, the bananas were

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