Posted on July 16th, 2010 by iamnotachef
I am a New York Yankees fan and have been since 1970. And I don’t have a next favorite team; it’s all or nothing with me. However, I do have a few teams upon which I wish catastrophes, or at least a demotion to AAA baseball, and one of those teams is Read more »
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by iamnotachef
Mushrooms are wonderful tasting, fantastically interesting organisms (nobody really knows how and why they grow), nice to look at, and, if you gather your own, exciting in a “gee, I wonder whether I will die a horrible death if I eat this?” sort of way. Read more »
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Posted on June 6th, 2010 by iamnotachef

“Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: ‘I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.’
Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their value [valor], and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.
Thank you very much, and God bless you all.”
Ronald Reagan – June 6, 1984
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Posted on June 5th, 2010 by iamnotachef
The people of Hong Kong commemorating the Tienanmen Square massacre, or as the PRC calls it, “The June 4th Incident.”

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Posted on May 31st, 2010 by iamnotachef
Posted on May 23rd, 2010 by iamnotachef
There are millions of bloggers, and who knows how many of them are focused on food and cooking and restaurants. I haven’t had time to count them, but there are lots of them. Most are like this one — a dozen to a few hundred hits each day, with probably a tenth of those being regular readers and Read more »
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Posted on April 13th, 2010 by iamnotachef
It’s a pizzeria. Nothing special. There are about 1,000,000 of these all over the country. And, to be honest, I have no idea if their pizza is even edible. It doesn’t matter, because I will never order it. But…their crab cakes are the best I have ever eaten, and I eat a lot of crab cakes. My wife loves them, but has the appetite of a small bird, Read more »
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Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by iamnotachef
Wander into a charcuterie anywhere in France and you will see a dizzying variety of meat concoctions of various consistencies, generally known as pâté, made from an equally confusing selection of animal parts. Some are elegant, expensive, and intended for special occasions. A few are great looking but vile, Read more »
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by iamnotachef
The restaurant scene in my neck of the woods can’t even be described as bad; it’s more like a wasteland, reminiscent of The Road Warrior. We aren’t served dog food from a can when we go out to eat, but most local restaurants’ output is just semantically different Read more »
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Posted on February 21st, 2010 by iamnotachef
I was a little concerned that this would be far down the hill, but it turned out to be a lovely, fruity, balanced wine that was a pleasure to drink with my sister-in-law’s Osso Bucco. The wine was surprisingly gentle, without any of the assertive spiciness that I have Read more »
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