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L'Ami Louis - the worst restaurant in the world. Hilarious Vanity Fair restaurant review. You been Skinny? (via kottke)
The Rolls-Royce of the sea is her shark’s fin, the pricey pièce de résistance of traditional Chinese banquets. “No shark’s fin soup, you’re cheap,” said Mrs. Li, summing up the prevailing ethos toward the steamy glutinous broth, for centuries a symbol of virility, wealth and power.
essex market unrest
top bar bee hive
wiki entry w/ links
clinton st getting a chinatown dumpling outpost. i eat at vanessa's but ive read prosperity are their equal.
"Best restaurant" lists are tricky. How can any sensible eater compare an iconic pizza parlor or the joint that serves that simply transcendent cheeseburger with the lapidary perfection of a French Laundry or the genre-bending inventiveness of a WD-50? On what terms is it possible to stack the culinary monuments of Manhattan, Chicago, or Los Angeles up against the really-very-good but necessarily more modest establishments of, say, Buellton or Murphysboro? Talk about apples and oranges.
bowery dinering
Molecular Cuisine Starter Kit
paleo diet podcst
"Papa Pinot"
David Lett arrived in the Willamette Valley in 1965 at the age of 25 with 3,000 vine cuttings from Davis in the bed of his uncle's horse trailer. He originally planted them south of Salem in Corvallis, while he searched for vineyard land closer to Portland in the Northern half of the Valley. In 1966 Lett purchased 20 acres at $450 each in the Dundee Hills. Four years later, he bottled his first Pinot Noir under the Eyrie label and sold it for $2.65 a bottle. The same year he harvested the New World's first Pinot Gris, a variety that would eventually become the Willamette Valley's signature white wine grape.
For the first couple years Lett could barely convince an alcoholic to drink his wines, but things changed fast. In 1979, Lett's '75 Eyrie South Block Reserve Pinot Noir would take second place behind famed Burgundy producer Joseph Drouhin's 1959 Chambolle-Musigny in a blind tasting of American Pinot Noir versus French Burgundy. Oregon was officially on the international radar and pioneers looking for a piece of the action were pounding stakes into every naked piece of Willamette loam.
clockwork spitjack
via eating art #1 on the menu
new pdx restaurant helmed by ex new yorkers, menu looks great inc the $$'s
I have gotten to know Michael a bit (below if from eater pdx) and love his wine taste
BELMONT: An Eater operative reports that former Tabla sommelier Michael Garofola, who was the victim of a post-Ten-01 shutter shuffle, has landed alongside David Anderson and Daniel Mondok at Genoa. No word yet on his specific role/title
and menu changes too with a veggie menu added see comments
food for thought conference portland
5 months no caffeine minus a nibble or two of chocolate....
for sure feel better and w/ more energy overall, with the jolt in the mornings was almost always tired in the afternoon and needed a re-up....
overall I think I am sleeping better too
chef'n citrus squeezer
"Dual gear-mechanism increases pressing power"
ah the good old days of no kids, no health concerns to stay alive for the kids, and when Lupa was on fire!!
TOP TEN MEALS OF 2002
#1 Da Guido (Piedmonte, Italy)
#2 Taubenkobel (Burgenland, Austria)
#3 Kai (NYC, NY)
#4 Zur Rose (Sud Tyrol, Italy)
#5 L'Astrance (Paris)
#6 Temple Club (Saigon)
#7 Jewel Bako (NYC, NY)
#8 Altwienerhof (Vienna)
#9 Locanda Dell Arco (Piedmonte, Italy)
#10 Lupa (NYC, NY)