Remote food
12 May 2010
Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd turned Marfa, TX into a remote town where rigor, discipline, and consistency are prized and engrained into not just the art, but the food too.
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All your meme are belong to them
24 April 2010
Time was when an internet meme was an oddity that somehow spoke to a narrow but deep segment of like-minded people. Those who perpetuated the meme knew that those who would appreciate it most had something wonderfully undefinable in common. The meme was vox clamantis in deserto — for readers not in the Latin know [...]
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The Negroni Sbagliato
21 April 2010
The search for a fashionable drink has led some to the Negroni, one part each of gin, vermouth, and Campari. I capitalize the “N” here because the drink is the invention of one Count Camillo Negroni, who, in 1919, was bright enough to fortify the limp and then well-known Americano by replacing the soda-water with [...]
Baked Cod with Cannelini Beans and Roasted Tomato
17 April 2010
With wild, local cod now around $15/pound in Boston, I want to do something more interesting than just fry it up in a pan. My friend Sheryl brought me some fabulously fresh ground sumac from her vacation in Jordan. (I’ve since found sumac to be great on boiled yuca — a very underrated starch. Added [...]
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Aldo Buzzi, l’Imprevisto
15 April 2010
His writing is something to savor and enjoy, paragraph by paragraph, as you move from the subject he is ostensibly writing about, to all manner of related history, personal asides, and truths of life and culture. Aldo Buzzi (pronounced “Boot-see”) is an urbane raconteur whose slim, brilliant volumes are mostly available only in Italian. His [...]
International House of High Fructose Corn Syrup
14 January 2010
A couple years ago, in San Francisco, at a certain open-late diner on Market Street, I had a question about the maple syrup. “Do you serve real maple syrup with the pancakes?” Our waitress was tattooed, blond-pink, pierced, and dismissive. ”Yes,” she replied. I’ve heard this before. I persisted. “I mean, its is natural maple syrup? [...]
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Charade start-ups as Cargo Cults
02 November 2009
I’ve never been a fan of posts that are largely repost of writing done elsewhere, but in this case … A post by Roman Stanek, on TechCrunch. He’s talking about Europe, but in so many cases its about start-ups anywhere (including certainly Boston) where the desire to score big financially is the overriding — and [...]
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Michael Jackson, Friday night, Boston’s Back Bay
29 June 2009
This Friday night, the day after Michael Jackson died, I was waiting in front of Back Bay station for about a half hour. Enough cars passed playing Michael Jackson’s music — I can probably just call him “Michael” for the remainder of the article — that the survey of his music was uninterrupted. Many Boston [...]
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Adieu LOLCats. Hello “F*** You, Penguin.”
04 March 2009
There’s a bit less smiling going on these days, and it seems our taste for cuteness has also gone sour. Fluffy and playful, the internet’s LOLCats spent the holidays posing for staged photos on the living room floor, mangling toilet paper rolls and the English language. Now copies of the doe-eyed holiday book “I Can [...]
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There will be references
16 February 2009
It takes blood, machismo, and a bit of a snarl. Then you have a movie catchphrase that men can rally around. The title of the 2007 Oscar-winning movie “There Will Be Blood” is turning out to be the “Say hello to my little friend” of this decade. This newish favorite macho-meme assigns a hardcore intensity [...]
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Remote food
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All your meme are belong to them
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The Negroni Sbagliato
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Baked Cod with Cannelini Beans and Roasted Tomato
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Aldo Buzzi, l’Imprevisto
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International House of High Fructose Corn Syrup
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Charade start-ups as Cargo Cults
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Michael Jackson, Friday night, Boston’s Back Bay
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Adieu LOLCats. Hello “F*** You, Penguin.”
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There will be references
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