April 19, 2024November 26, 2025CITP Entr’acte Most of one’s life is an entr’acte,’ said Gumbril. – Aldous Huxley October 20, 2022 – April 14, 2024. 542 Earth days or 1.48 years. […]
April 21, 2019November 5, 2025Uncategorized Twenty Years (Five Years Later) Only a man who’s been burned knows what hell is truly like – Sandor Clegane Twenty years ago today, I almost died. I came home […]
February 12, 2019November 5, 2025Uncategorized Elegy From a Cook (revisited) My first (and only) shot at moving from Sous Chef to Chef at a another restaurant came at the urging of Fred Rzemek. I had […]
April 6, 2017November 5, 2025Uncategorized A Tale of Two Dinners It was the best of Dinners, it was the worst of Dinners – apologies to Mr. Dickens. Today’s Buffalo News carried two stories about dining. […]
December 19, 2013November 5, 2025Uncategorized My Dinner With Andrew, Redux. I’m in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I’d let just about everybody in except the English. – […]
April 1, 2013November 5, 2025Uncategorized How To Cook Meat Well Every Time! “Was this well done of your lady, Charmion?” “Extremely well,” she answered, “and as became the descendant of so many kings” – Plutarch My friend […]
March 5, 2013November 5, 2025Uncategorized In A Pickle On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the […]
December 24, 2012November 5, 2025Uncategorized The Latest Mental Floss In which I wax rhapsodic about stores of Christmas Past.
November 2, 2012November 5, 2025Uncategorized That Thing They Du and a Gift of Baijiu Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma – Bryan Miller This is the story of how I found out you can get good Chinese food in […]