September 11th, 2008
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by iamnotachef
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Don’t Order The Halibut
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by iamnotachef
They say that hope springs eternal. They also say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing every day and expecting a different result. Continental Airlines did an excellent job of transporting me to and from Europe. Everything worked well, including the security checks at both ends. But…the fish was overcooked. Impressively overcooked. [...]
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Treating The Busboys Like Crap
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by iamnotachef
We have 16-year-old who sleeps, eats and does his laundry (sometimes) here, when he isn’t doing what most kids his age do. What that is, I have no idea. I just hope it isn’t what I was trying to do when I was 16. Anyway, he mentioned that one of his friends just got a [...]
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Memorial Day
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by iamnotachef
Photograph by Michael Yon
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Ah, Oysters
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by iamnotachef
The Walrus and The Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright–
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done–
“It’s very [...]
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“The Agony Of A Food Snob”
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by iamnotachef
Don’t click on this link unless you want to be irritated. Written by Daniel Gross, the Moneybox columnist for Slate, this is a pompous, elitist, self-important whine about high food costs. But not just any food, or the foods that most people eat, this is a whine about organic eggs and $43 olive oil and [...]
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The Dumbing Down Of Cooking: Celebrity Chefs
Posted on April 1st, 2008 by iamnotachef
Years ago the only chefs on TV were people like Julia Child, James Beard, and a few other professional chefs. Nowadays of course, there are what seem to be hundreds of people, cooking sometimes nasty looking stuff, on dozens of networks. There is even a network devoted entirely to food. But the problem is that [...]
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How Did We Ever Live Without This?
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by iamnotachef
Ignoring the unarguable fact that this stuff is ugly, why would you want to eat your plate after a meal? And notice what it is made of — hardtack. I remember reading stories of sailing ships and the awful food they had after the fresh food was eaten. Hardtack played an important role in the [...]
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Starbucks Explained
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by iamnotachef
No one really understood what Starbucks was trying to accomplish, until the intrepid reporters from my favorite news source dug into the story. Starbucks to begin sinister Phase 2 of Operations*
*Stolen from a commenter
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