how to peel a head of garlic in less than ten seconds
my coworker's son julian (13 years old), just launched this charitable website - his goal to raise 2 million in 2 dollar increments for children's charities. please help spread the word!
http://www.archimedesalliance.org/spreadtheword.php
A parents life...
The bittman $5 slow food challenge here

Via mark bitumen fb page and the nyt
Not that I care a whole lot, but there is a thing on that Kassey guy in The New Yorker this week....Just thought id say....
sdb
the low line
went out to collect my bike from the street and walked right into a bomb scare. so i decided it was a nice night to take a bike ride. all clear now.

more importantly the shop smart reopens on ludlow on thursday. i hope its still the shop cheap because that was its main appeal.

Msm siding with the advertisers again. Pretty transparent dishonesty in the framing of this reportage.

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My friend has a great piece at the Dumbo Arts Festival under the Manhattan Bridge. Check it out if you can. Its this weekend.
1107 manhattan ave "art loft building" revisited here
Went to see the trip in the theater. Light, funny, foodie. Recommended.

super great meal at beast last night. don't need meat for another month. foie gras bon bon!
dream of life
not sure how i missed this, but it's now #1 in my netflix queue.
bionic eye
Fox 14 (here)
Obama’s Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What’s Really in Ron Suskind’s Revealing New Book About the White House
heres the pilot for homeland starring claire danes. only new show ive seen thus far worth watching.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For tens of millions of sports fans, Sunday afternoons in the fall and winter are all about one thing: watching football. Starting this weekend, Fox is hoping some of those viewers can be lured to watch that other sport known as football, as it pairs soccer matches with its National Football League games.

On Sunday, Fox’s network channel will show the English Premier League’s Chelsea play at Manchester United. Depending on whether the local Fox station shows an early or late NFL game, the soccer will be broadcast at 2 p.m. Eastern or 4:30 p.m.
Yeah,so went with the Vongole for the big M Segre b-day dinner-(big? well, three of us, ok?) Must say razor clam in there (w/ cockles & lit nects)...for-get about it....! Butter w/no butter...
Kind of hooked on boiling shells for xtra flav---Overkill?
sdb
This is a couple years old. Ted Allen (and Wylie) on Wylie's Eggs Benedict. Replays tomorrow on Food.
Byggybeef!
No. 78
RIP George Kuchar

downton abbey returns for its second season next week in the uk but americans will have to wait (wink) until january for the bastardized version that pbs will likely offer. last year they chopped off at least an hour so they could create 4 11/2hour episodes instead of the 7 hour long episodes shown in the uk. still baffles me as to why. maybe they had to get to the doowop reruns offered during pledge week.

its sort of a hackneyed upstairs/downstairs period drama but its well done if you like that sort of thing.

and season three has already been greenlit so you can set your dvrs ahead of time for january 2013.

let the mea culpaing begin.