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Food, NYC, brooklyn
brooklyn eating: eat records
09.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

On Saturday, I went along with friends to Greenpoint’s Eat Records. A friend of mine recently took over running their kitchen, and I was curious to see what the new setup was like. The last time I’d been there, the balance between cafe and record store was much more significantly in favor of the latter. [...]
Food
in which paletas are made
08.25.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

A number of my friends make damn good food. I’ve begun doing more cooking for myself in 2008 than I ever have before; previously, the extent of my kitchen skills were limited to throwing chicken sausage in a skillet or making a passable omelet.
My current obsession, after trying them out at the apartment of one [...]
Food
I am, perhaps, an untrained cook
07.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Managed to fill the apartment with smoke as a result of cooking a chicken breast with some jerk spices earlier. Now: waiting for some clafoutis to finish baking (recipe via Quinn) and listening to Flying Saucer Attack.
May have made too much clafoutis for one person to consume. Damn. The perils of living alone…
Books, Food
foodstuffs
04.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I’m currently finishing up The Shameless Carnivore.
It’s leaving me with the urge to cook. A lot. And I can’t cook for shit.
Also, the description in its later pages of Montana’s annual Testicle Festival may well be worth the price of the entire book. Dear lord.
Art, Books, Food
yessir, we’re covering all the bases here: three links for monday night
04.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

One: for artists, writers, and those with an interest in intellectual property rights, this is very worrisome.
Two: I’ve liked what I’ve read from Joy Williams, and the news that an older novel of hers is being reissued (with a new Rick Moody introduction) definitely has my interest piqued. [via: Maud Newton]
Three: Apparently, pigeons are tasty.
Food, Music, Politics
red bull + turkey jerky: monday night links
04.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

One: On Sunday, I passed what I assume is this taco cart on my way to the City Reliquary. Am I intrigued? Hell yes.
Two: In which ace political writers talk Los Crudos. Who are, apparently, reuniting. Hot damn.
Three: I totally misread a phrase of this as The Best of Tariq Ali. (One can only imagine. [...]