December 2009
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"Sources"
“Sources
My answer about sources — about what ingredients are and where to get them — is pretty simple: Google it. What’s a dried scallop? Google it. Where can I buy Kewpie mayonnaise? Google it. We google for information all the time at the restaurants. And while you can’t trust everything you read on the internet, you can find a lot of helpful information...
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Holiday digest
My little brother and I woke up at Bennett’s house after a long day and night of eating and drinking. We quickly downed some coffee and cranberry bread and then drove to Virginia to eat dim sum. We were late though so all that was left were some red-cooked pork ribs, Chinese broccoli in sauce, shrimp and pork shumai, roast pork fried rice, shrimp crepes and radish-pork pancakes. No roast...
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IM IN UR BOOKSTORE, WRAPPIN ALL UR PREZINTS
I volunteered to giftwrap at my local independent bookstore today out of general kindness and goodness and generosity of spirit and, okay, also in order to get 20% off all my book-presents. Also, to spy on book-buying trends!
Let it be recorded that two days before Xmas, the citizenry of Fort Greene were buying lots of Quality Literature — I wrapped two of the newish Orhan Pamuk — ...
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WatchNew Cooking the Books, starring Anna Jane Grossman, a LOT of popcorn, and Val Temple deserving some sort of Internet Oscar for editing. I hope you guys appreciate our attempts to make the lighting and sound less terrible. We couldn’t do anything about me having a bad cold that makes me sound like I am going through puberty, however. Even in this glorious future we still do not have that...
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Whoa.
Seriously you have to listen to that song; it contains an epic monologue about Vegas, muscle relaxants, David Cassidy, and stealing spare change from a busker playing “You Were Meant For Me.” Steve Poltz is an unsung (well except by himself) genius possibly.
Consoled a cup of coffee ...
marjoree:
thingsiatethatilove:
I just realized that I could make a whole playlist of songs that mention the melancholy feeling of making coffee for just one person when you’re used to making it for two.
Then I realized it would be a very short playlist and that one of the songs would be by Jewel, so I decided not to.
Then I realized that ‘You Were Meant For Me’ is actually about the sadness...
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I made too much of it
I just realized that I could make a whole playlist of songs that mention the melancholy feeling of making coffee for just one person when you’re used to making it for two.
Then I realized it would be a very short playlist and that one of the songs would be by Jewel, so I decided not to.
Then I realized that ‘You Were Meant For Me’ is actually about the sadness of making eggs...
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Doree's latke guide
is so accurate and funny. I love her takedown of Russ and Daughters’ expensive premade latkes:
“So your 20 latkes will cost $3.76 if you don’t have oil or flour or baking powder or salt. That’s the MAXIMUM they will cost. That’s 19 cents a latke.
And you’re still going to order them from Russ & Daughters? You must not be Jewish.
(Ba-dum-dum!)”
In...
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Belly full
We made popcorn cookies on Cooking the Books on Saturday; this involved inadvertently and ill-advisedly ingesting a whole lot of popcorn. Gross. I dunno, popcorn has never really been my thing, but we had an unprecedented number of technical difficulties and also there was a lot of standing around and trying to be non-awkward with Anna Jane Grossman, who was understanding about the technical...
By "celebrate Hanukkah"
I primarily meant “make sufganiyot.” And, okay, other fried things. Happy eight days of having sort of a quasi-religious or historical/cultural duty to fry things in oil!
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Menorah update
I bought the menorah.
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He ate my heart
I am just going to title things after Lady Gaga song lyrics all week, heh. Ok but so I wrote about cooking … on my blog? I know this is getting a bit ridiculous but for some reason this post seemed more like the jurisdiction of my blog.
