February 2012
4 posts
I found a new neighborhood
And fell in love with it. I’m discovering corners of Miami that are still jagged, juxtaposed with signs, backdrops, and people from a clash of genres.
Lee is no Shott, but talking bikes, books, old New York, and chef adventures was more sustenance than dinner. Though that meat fried crisp for tostones will inspire dreams.
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Lines From Sunday
I know she had a Hustler bag and all, but I kept searching for her sexy face and I couldn’t find it.
My dating life twitter name should be bullet-comma-dodged.
That observation summed up tonight’s enlightened crowd: “I recall that Doogie Houser’s a gay.”
People don’t like hot shit here. I’m talking about food, but I suppose it’s metaphoric.
Happy Sunday
January 2012
23 posts
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Miami is the really fucking smoking guy who is much less interesting than he thinks he is.
“A very English teacher thing to say….
You have to be the kind of person...”
– Drew Marvin, English Teacher (via playingthedrumswithamaraca)
I miss restaurant kitchens.
Line cooks are hot.and the ingredients are lovely too.
True
When you’re writing for readers who aren’t independent minded — that herd mentality—it’s great for clicks.
And, no, this was not a discussion about Florida.
The Chute
I have three article deadlines this week. The sun is so strong my shins are burnt. VIsitors numbers 4-6 are coming this weekend. Things are full force. You?
Love. →
Crickets
Embarrassing Freudian slip of the night: deep dick instead of deep dish.
pizzatalk
Monday Inconveniences
Meatless monday means I’m hungry. Tofu soup from China Garden and housemade kale chips aren’t it.
My friendish/neighbor told me to get a boob job. Hello, Florida.
I have a ton of guests coming.What to keep in the house besides beer and cheese?
I have zero time to cook. In the words of my father, “You live like a North Korean.”
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Fun link on the cheeky choque from my music sherpa
2012
Rev back up to four times a week exercise.
A fiction book a month.
More travel to places I’ve never been. Every six weeks to familiar isn’t necessary, although it’s fun.
Three cover stories.
Be more demonstrative to show the people I love how much.
Articulate the difficult.
Listen more.
Priorities
“I left NYC for Texas because they’re’s more money to be made in real estate.”
“Well then you bore the fuck out of me.”
Amen, Asimov.
Future restaurant critics will decide for themselves just how much it matters, though, as far as I’m concerned, smart restaurateurs will always allow critics to come and go unacknowledged, whether recognized or not. Nothing changes the rhythm of a meal so much as sending out extra courses, which may spring from deeply generous impulses but nonetheless make the task of analysis more...
In a good way.
Busiest month of life ever: friends visiting every weekend, cover wrapup for the food issue, corporate here next week. Wondering if there’s some Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe business by Feb. 1.
December 2011
12 posts
Thank you for this one, especially for Sunday. →
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Curious.
How much time do you average a day holding a conversation listening and talking to someone outside of work? Not online. Not at the office. Aloud, face.
Soundtrack from hell
Anything by
Billy Joel
Elton John
Paul Simon
Dave Matthews
Creed
There’s probably more but that’s just the lunch soundtrack I endured.
Working music, thanks to Mikey. →
Reminder
Hang out at whole foods more often. Almost everyone there has a full set of teeth. #lauderdale
November 2011
18 posts
I Fucking Love You, McSweeney's
A History of Pizza Hut’s New Product Releases, 2002-2042.
BY Simon Rich
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2002: Meat Lover’s Pizza
2007: Crust Craver’s Pizza
2012: Fat Person’s Pizza
2017: Overweight Woman’s Pizza
2022: Obese Child’s Pizza
2027: Fat Man’s Surprise
2032: Depressed Couple’s Sad Pizza
2037: Disgusting Pizza, for a Fat Person
2042: Just the Thing for a Sad Fat Guy
Book character
I’ve seen more of st croix under water said the diver. There are six people in the world doing her job, but harmony is an original red from pennsylvania and spring lake.
Those reefs in Indonesia last month were dead, she said of the redneck resort where her boss ran out of air. And so are ours. everything is bleaching.
Harmony studies light. It’s particles and waves. It requires...
Butcher Evolution
2008 The Right Stuff Making sausage and charcuterie
2010 Designer Meats
2010 Fancy ground
2011 The Beefbreaker: The rise of the meat carving movement
I have a piece in the pipeline. I’m restless to have access to more people who make shit happen.
It amuses me that cock made my tweet list. →
Five dishes that need to die
Flatbreads
Meatballs
Sliders
Potstickers/skewers/meatsticks
Mac and cheese riffs
I just quoted half the menus in boredomville.
Spring
Bocce and keg toss in front of my house; drinking wine on a strangers’ boat, a dog walk detour. A vintage tandem ride, watching games outside. Sunday supper at the chef’s house. It feels like spring here.
What's yours?
“There are some books that take you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”
"Those Chinese. They're Long Term Thinkers."
1. Nice bag of guns I said, bracing myself for the pair watching some shooting range on TV and the game, college friends, with masters’ degrees and “interesting” jobs, being meatheads. They’re talking about dumb luck young girls hiding drugs inside their bodies and “rescuing” hookers and mules. And those suitcases and duffel bags in the room. Reminders of...
It is official.
I am a thin fat person. Next phase, lard ass.
Oh well.