Archive for August, 2009
Whenever there’s a new cookbook or magazine—food related or not—essentially if there’s a glossy product with pretty pictures, the first read-through I do is not a read-through. It a flip-through in which I ‘oo!’ and ‘aw!’ at the pictures. Yes, I treat the first read through as if I’m reading a picture book, and oh, [...]
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Rudesheim Coffee.
One of the faults of European tours, for the under- thirty set I believe, is the numerous and seemingly endless yet all alike churches, cathedrals and castles. So many, too many. Frescoes and stained glass and columns and gothic architecture, spires and statues, friezes etc. It’s a little much. But the Germans seem to have [...]
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Amsterdam.
Supposing, hoping, longing, dreaming….thinking there may be at least, you know, four people out there checking this here little blog semi-recently– out of boredom, lack of other things to do, or just a mis-click of the mouse perhaps, whatever– I apologize for the unexplained abscense. While the timeliness of my posting has not been all [...]
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F.I. Macaroni and Cheese.
Yes, I’m sorry. Another savory. I hope you’ve gathered from past posts that Fire Island is a fantastic place to be. The best place to be, I think, for the months of June through September when it’s too hot to really do anything else beside swim, read, go beach, and tan. Highly productive and tiresome [...]
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F.I. French Lentil Salad
I know, I know. What’s with all the savory? What happened to the eight to one, sweet to savory ratio? I’m sorry, but the beach does funny things to you. In ninety-degree heat at four in the afternoon after a couple hours lying around in the sand or on the deck, swimming in the ocean [...]
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F.I. Blueberry Coffee Cake
For creative purposes, nothing beats the beach. For cooking and baking sakes, the beach is nothing if not a catalyst for fast and creative cooking, and new recipes. This partly may be due to the fact that on the beach, there are no cookbooks. And certainly rare is the desire to actually follow a detail [...]
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Fire Island, parte 1. Guacamole.
Yes, you want to be here. Why, might you ask, are you showing us a beach? Why is there nothing baked, nothing wrapped in pastry? Where are the sugared things, the cookies and brownies and cakes? Mostly importantly, where have you put the chocolate? Well, I would have to answer; I have gone to the [...]
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