6/5/00 lots of food at Chez Beavers but best of all was the Mag of 1960 Vega Unico (thanks Peter Wasserman)
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I'm passing this question on for a friend (oh O.K., it's for my Mom.) Any words of wisdom for her?
I'm passing this question on for a friend (oh O.K., it's for my Mom.) Any words of wisdom for her?
"I leave Friday the 16th in the AM for two weeks in Burgundy at a house we have rented in Vezelay (near Auxerre).... Please ask Michael if he has any wine or winery suggestions. We will have two cars and lots of time. We are about 1 hour drive west of Dijon or Beaune. We have cut out many articles and understand the vagaries of the grape in that area. We are just south of Chablis, yet the four of us are generally red wine enthusiasts, but not stupid or intransigent. It may just be that this area is not as lush as the prior rental in Provence just up the lane from Gigondas. Now that was a place to drink wine!"
what happened to my d-day comment? can anyone see it?
if you have some time to kill, barbelith has a fun little riddle to solve.
For breakfast Pillsbury cinnamon rolls hot from the oven, coffee (Community brand New Orleans blend with chickory mixed with the last few ground up Columbians), and the sweet solitude of la casa blanca on Dumaine.
Today I am taking off from work to offer myself to the crowd scene that will be the festivities surrounding the opening of the new D-Day museum here in New Orleans, Louisiana. The rain that has been lacking down here for over a year has arrived so it is not ideal parade weather, and on top of that I am not a huge fan of parades, but today I will buy an umbrella and pay my respects to the men and women of the last great fight. I am feeling inexplicably patriotic today, yearning for something that may only be a myth, but what a myth it is.
Dave suggested sustenance as a name for this section. I like it. Any objections? Other suggestions?
6/4/00--La Bouillabaisse on Atlantic ave in Brooklyn--was good but too rich on the sauces for me--i enjoyed the two dishes with the spicy marinara(sp?) sauce most--but lots of fresh seafood (and other stuff) not a fun list but only $4 corkage--we ended the meal w/ poached pear & blue cheese served with 90 Quinterelli Amarone(thanks Jim)
green market report: a new very tiny red potato, the organic dudes are on fire as usual, start of the awesome sugar snap peas and asparagus...
well i checked with a couple people on Meigas, both glowing reviews. they are both in the wine biz and one travels to spain to eat, the other is of cuban blood. it is a fancy place and higher end but also of interest is that the chef was sous-chef at??....El Bulli
my neighbors are having a party on the roof outside my window. the noise wasnt bad but ive had to endure the b52s rock lobster twice. i might have to consider arming myself to liberate my senses. make that three times. good thing i didnt sign any antiballistic missile treaty.
our fear full leader before the mojito's---http://www.eatonweb.com/photos/newyork500/
i want to go eat at Meigas(sp?) on hudson near king?? spanish food--its grilled sardines season i believe...on the mojito trail heres some ideas Isla 39 downing st bedford/varick 212-352-cuba after 10 the table's are moved and a dance floor is made!!!...and Chicama douglas rodriquez's new spot he was at Patria and hes doing Unico soon (wants to have a 4* spanish!!) any way Chicama is in the old ABC/ Colina space--they make fresh to order ceviche and grilled octopus in a black olive sauce plus good music and lots of tasty drinks inc mojito's....
el bulli is the most talked about restaurant these days--most i talk to dislike or feel indifferent but some say fun and even if not great think its genius and will stop by at some point again--one looser dish recently reported was beet broth with olive oil sorbet sprinkled with powdered yogurt, another interesting to me was a ravioli made from squid that had coconut and ginger inside with something that when you bite it it bites back (something exploded) i think that has lots of possibilitys....
my tickets for Fiji arrived today from Qantas's tour arm called Jet About so if anyone has any restaurant suggestions for Nadi or Suva--please advise!!
went to Cuba recently and had some mojito's and it was the finest drink i have ever had,(rum is my favorite alcohol). i had them at La Bodeguita del Medio a Hemingway hangout, they were so light airy refreshing and strong--yummy. food was poor for me but pig eaters would prob find some yummies or seach out the private restaurants, 12 seats or less in someones home. they are called paladares. i mostly lived on rum.
5/28/00 how can you tell what is a great restaurant?? well i heard of one
supossed here in merida, only open for lunch when they feel like it. so as
this is my final day in merida i was happy to see the doors open. it was a
small clean but sparce place with photos on the wall of the owner with the
pope, bull fighters and the local music stars so i knew it was going to be
fun and as its name is "el cangrejito" (the crab) i was sure that seafood
was the speciality. and as a recent veghead turned fish eater i was
excited. all the foods were served by the owner himself from behind this
small glass stand and all of the tapas like foods were served as tacos with
superb admixtures. i orderded one of each as there were only 5 (shrimp,
lobster, fish, crab, conch) sucked them down quickly with a beer and the
"fish nazi" watch my every move to see if i liked. and then he came over to
see what i thought to the dislike of other patrons whom had to wait while
i commented as no one else could get back behind the maestro's glass
arena. out of respect i said another round and el capitain smiled like a
cheshire cat and made me up another round. i stuffed them down with
another beer and was about to burst and i was about to get the check
when another beer arrived from the waitress whom said was from the
chef whom had misteriously disapeared to the kitchen. when he returned
he told me to wait and at this point some guests had walked out do to no
service and the whole time i was there the phone was ringing and
maestro picked it up "yes were open" and hang up the phone without
another word. boom another plate of tacos is placed in front of me and as
i feared it was no fish but what appeared to be an animal from the inside
out, which reminded me of when i was in north thailand one chinese new
year hanging with the chief of an opium hamlet and i had to sit by his side
as guest and get the prime parts of a rarely eaten bird again from the
inside out. the grandson started with the brains and i was next and i
started with the womb and its egg--scary shit!! at this point i had the
whole restaurant watching me as i was now eating more tacos than two
huge mexicans and must be important to get all these "specials". i ate
them as fast and as respecfully as i could and was hoping to bolt back to
the hotel to hang with my good friend Anna Rexia when another beer
appeared and the place was put on hold again as el freako ran off
laughing to the kitchen to come back with one final taco. not recognizing it
at all i sluged it with beer down with the chef towering over me awaiting
my responce. "excellente senor, que es??" at which point he takes his hat
off and said "brains me amigo brains" something i thought i didnt have for
steping in here.....
Made a change to the format on the (nested) comment pages. Does it look any better in Windows?
my friend bowman just got back from a trip to spain and he was raving about this restaurant which was recommended to him by our (me and jim) old friend christopher(the actor turned chef).
jim is it me or is it it--when i open page etc it takes a while to pop up?? aapl??
NCC3 has been cancelled (as some might have thought:>(
we can have dinner and hang sunday a bit maybe on 6/10-6/11 this is beging confirmed--dougs great aunt has her 100th birthday party on 6/24 (which beets a NCC anyday)--we may have to try to plan a fall gathering eleswhere--maybe we should all buy a house somewhere together--4 bedrooms!!!
O.K. I think we are ready to test out the new format. I've tried to simplify a lot of things. The new post information is now greatly reduced (but hopefully just as useful.) The main page is now here. If you get an error (maybe something about a problem accessing the preferences) you need a new cookie - get it here (if the first link works, then don't worry about it.) And, just to be clear, this is not a big deal like the last switch, so there shouldn't be any bumps, but as usual, let me know if anything doesn't seem right.
In reference to mr. dratfink's Nike comments..."specious at best...," yeah you right. Nike has few equals in representing the worst of what this country is becoming in the sense of irrelevant consumerism, mismanaged energy, and hypocrisy. I haven't seen the ad but the mere description was enough to curdle the juices in my stomach.
And if I may combine two arguments here, let's not just throw away all our guns, let's throw them at our tv screens. Elvis lives.
I remember Dave linked to a story a long time ago about "number stations." These are shortwave broadcasts that have been on the air for decades. They feature only a single voice reading lists of seemingly random numbers. These number stations are widely believed to be a method for spy agencies to communicate with their agents in the field. NPR did a story on them recently. Slashdot had a story today about The Conent Project which is releasing a 4 CD set of these recordings, and sponsering a cryptograpic challenge to crack the code behind these numbers. Assuming they are not using a one time pad, which would be unbreakable, I can't wait to see what these numbers mean.
