nytimes has an article in yesterday's dining out section about the woman who for the past year has been cooking her way through julia child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. the ingredients and recipes are somewhat outdated by our standards and she estimates she's gone through 60 pounds of butter and cases of vermouth. and, of course, she's been blogging it all.

"I'm miserable so they can be happy," Ms. Powell said of her readers. "I'm like the Jesus of extreme cooking. I got fat and very unhappy for their sins."

Where to Go Next: The Year's 10 Best Openings

new painting by samoa

Rose Water in Broooklyn was DELISH again, it was only meal #4 but I love them, everything is hand selected fresh local, summer is a great time to eat there but fall is also, its a place we must go at least once a season.....

I heard about a Microsoft Worm on NPR yesterday and I think I got it. Ninety seconds online then a system shutdown message with a sixty second timer.

You know those weird time traveller emails? The one where the guy is looking to buy all sorts of non existent futuristic equipment so that he can get back to the future? Well, this guy has had a long email conversation with him, and apparently there was some message indicating a drop time and location for delivery of the goods. And this other guy works 10 minutes away from the location and went by to check it out. And he wasn't alone.

Insert comment here about having a little too much time on your hands.

nyc.blogs.com/eats.

The MDI Air Car. Worlds cleanest car?

kartoo is a new (to me) meta-search engine which presents your results in a map display. i haven't played around with it too much yet, but i find these sort of visualizations interesting.

Ahh, vacation...

Skinny found out our good buddy Carlo has been hard at work....

I know there are several of these lists, but this one seems pretty extensive: The Bush Administration on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities - a compilation of quotes from senior white house officials. Has this been posted before?

Is that badass cat Rex still looking for a new home?

Nice! What test was MB using?

another brit wit on rivington st -- felix salmon

bush cards

vacuum coffee brewer

Demerrara sugar : Named after the Demerara area of Guyana, South America, from which it originally came. It is often described as natural, unrefined cane sugar. Today, Mauritius is a major supplier. It is a light brown sugar with large, slightly sticky crystals. Originally assumed to be a product of a sugar cane mill, but nowadays also produced in England and Canada in refineries. A popular product for tea and coffee in England, Australia and Canada, but not very well known in the U.S. An old Webster's Dictionary (1940s) describes it as a raw sugar having large superficially yellow crystals obtained by treating the sugar with sulfuric acid.

india tree

dark lyrics

Went to see the "Magdalene Sisters" feeling disgruntled and wearied by the fact that all we ever see of Ireland is old and dreadful. This fulfilled all of those expectations but is worth the visit. Beautifully made and excruciatingly well acted, and besides, all those burgeoning girls - in spite of their plight - remind us of life. Have a look for yourself.

Chiapas coffee

american splendor

Day 3 : Wine #1 is 2001 Francois Cotat Rose.
One of the greatest Rose producer’s?? I feel so every time I check in….This one is shining right outta the bottle, at 12 hours open still cruising upward, yumster deluxe.

Wine #2 2000 Truchot Charmes, sensual and tender, temporal wine. Truchot is for lovers.

Day 4: Greek Rose (yet another bottle of my fav Rose for 2003 Summer…..)

There's no point to this link except it makes me think of Steve.

Day 2: 2001 Antoine Arena “Carco Carco” Vin de Pays de L’Ile de Beaute, a Kermit Lynch estate. 100% Vermentino, and very expensive ($35 retail). Kermit controls the fine wine trade in Corsica for America. His other estate’s (Dme. Leccia) red has a large cultish following in Euroland, one restaurant friends and I ate in had over 10 year’s in vertical, but we drank 95 Truchot Charmes (which went great with the fish, but sent the wine guy into a tizzy, “You cant have red with with fish” The Wine Guy “Cant we please have the wine, were paying for??” Some Ugly American. It all started with the refusal of The Wine Guy’s offer of a whistle wetter of some herbs and booze, sorry Wine Guy in America its OK to drink Raveneau as an aperitif).

This wine is rich in texture and fruit, should go great with the monfish I bought right from the fisherman for $4 (the tail) yup four bucks and he skin’d if for me, caught this last night…..yahoo

Skin-E