one of our favorite local places is organic grill on 2nd avenue. are we alone in this? right past dok suni. killer veg, i think vegan, food. roasted garlic tempeh triangles with kale, ooo yeah.
ate at Alain Ducasse last week...here's the thing: _scallops topped with beluga in a chive nage_. yes yes yes. like dessert for dinner. the rest? very very very good...NOT the single best meal in town...but very very very good. Never go there if you're paying, is the only thing...which luckily I ended up not doing. I will say this, though: after seating us at literally the worst table I've SEEN let alone sat at in about 5 years..and then watching our horrified expression as the only other table in the broomcloset started SINGING (badly)...the maitre d' Did The Right Thing and brought us back through the kitchen, to "Mr. Ducasse's table", which is in Mr. Ducasse's cookbook library, which adjoins Mr. Ducasse's kitchen, and has a big glass door, so you can watch, which is a beautiful view (the rest of the room ain't bad either)...and wow, that's a hell of an army Mr. Ducasse has there. OUI CHEF!!
The Persimmon came up in conversation yesterday. There is indeed a native a native version, but the ones you see in the markets are larger, and come from Asia.
The bizarre story of the Collyer brothers has passed into NYC legend. The pathological hoarders are now the subject of a play. I guess it takes some poetic liberties with the actual story, but if the Voice and the Post both like it, it can't be all bad.
shatner blogs, sort of. gotta love "shatnerdise." i bet he could get more by autographing his priceline stock certificates and selling them online than he could in trading them in the market.
I've enjoyed the recent Spiritualized record, Let It Come Down. Masterminded by Jason Pierce, formerly of the 80's British psychedelic-minimalist band Spacemen Three, Spiritualized has a wider range, but is still founded in hypnotic layers of sound. I can't even really point to specific great songs, and a lot of their stuff tends to blend in my head, but the cumulative effect can be overwhelming. More trance than dance, their model is the wave rather than the beat. Their "spirituality" is that of the sinner who knows better, but isn't necessarily planning on reforming. They constantly work a metaphor of addictive longing, which makes little distinction between god, love, and drugs. I've seen them play several times, with mixed results. The live band took a while to jell, and one show was ruined by muddy sound, but the last time around they were stellar. Their upcoming show at the Beacon might be worth catching.
i always thought it was "aint got no bird surfer ticket on me now."
one great dish at Bond St. (the risotto) but over all underwelming, The Basil people opened #3 called The Basil we went to taste last night and it looks good, and taste's great for a soft opening night, fab wine list!!!...
"So says a report on the three cable news outlets by news analyst Andrew Tyndall for Terrence Smith's media unit at PBS' NewsHour With Jim Lehrer."
The Jersey City public library gives free internet access in 30 min. alotments. (17 min's remaining.) This looks like it's going to work for me.
She Never Read the Books and Dozed Through the Movie
"Now Mr. Cheney is Lord of the Rings, ruling over his very own Moria, an underground kingdom of bureaucratic hobbits and orcs." --Maureen Dowd, March 3 NYT editorial
frontline: the monster that ate hollywood
simple is usually better, lunch today at Marichu another place i never heard of was clean, flavorful, comfortable and well priced,
wine list ok....looking forward to going back....
wine list ok....looking forward to going back....
we watched Lidia of Felidia cooking on TV sunday so when monday rolled around we went right in for lunch. great wine list with lots of super estates but its an expensive place to drink, we settled in on a bargin 1994 Knoll Gruner Smaragd for $66 bucks, awesome!!
I just finished reading Kitchen Confidential. It was a fun read, but I'm wondering how it was received in the biz.
That’s all, folks.
Animator Chuck Jones is dead.
Animator Chuck Jones is dead.
I'm amazed and pleased to learn that Laura Miller, a muckracking journalist of many years (not the Salon book critic), has just been elected Mayor of Dallas in a runoff vote. Dallas is the heart of Bush Country, a city run behind the scenes by righteous conservative businessmen. Miller's in for the fight of her life, but that this can happen in Dallas, now, gives me hope that there may be enough populist anger about Enron, etc., to evict Bush and the other thieves come 2004. The odds against her winning were simply unbelievable!
