Well, the world didn’t come screeching to a halt on December 21. Having said goodbye to what frankly was one of my best years ever, we have rounded the corner into 2013 and we’re well on our way to a new year filled with questions, hopes, and wonders. The latter quarter of 2012 brought about […]
WARNING: This is a lengthy post. It is a very detailed description of one of the most incredible meals I’ve ever experienced, and I wanted to record it before the details find their way out of my aging and rapidly deteriorating mind. I never saw “Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle”, but I suspect […]
Willie Wonka must have been a genius. Of course I think he had a tempering machine long before the rest of the industry did, and I still don’t have one. Therein lies the problem. And then there were Oompa Loompas, another story altogether. In fact, let’s take a moment to remember those little guys, and […]
Yankee Doodle rode his pony to town, probably subsisting on hard tack or an occasional meat pie. He would have been quite fortunate to have had a macaron or two–and may have in fact. They were invented in 1533, and Monsieur Doodle didn’t come along until around 1760. I didn’t misspell it–it’s macaron with one […]
The Dean Street Smokin’ Rib Rubbers didn’t make it to the competition this year in Jonesboro as a full team, but Joan and I did get to check out the Kansas City BBQ scene on a recent trip to the mid-west. I had an opportunity to attend a demo on Albert y Ferran Adria’s line […]
I started writing something the other night and it ended up being about something else–something I frankly liked, but it didn’t belong there. I started reflecting on what it’s like to be in the food business. So catching myself on a tangent I cut what I had written and meant to paste it into another […]
We do lots of fun stuff for holidays at Arkansas State, and though Halloween is just barely more of a holiday than Valentine’s Day, we still celebrate. We doll the place up with ghostsand goblins and such, we have a costume contest, and we offer a table covered with everyone’s favorite candy–usually about a 1/4 ton of the stuff! It’s always […]
Are you a fan of the zombie cult movies? Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead? What about the spoofs? Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland? I love those movies. There’s some show on television about zombies that I’ve never seen because I reject cable […]
Or “A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…To A Blind Horse” This may be my last blog entry. I like writing, but let’s face it–I don’t write that often, and I don’t really say much. About six people read this stuff, and frankly there are a lot of better food blogs out there. I […]
The Death of Little Food
I woke up early this morning with two thoughts in the forefront of my mind–1) I think I’m bored with modern cuisine, and 2) I haven’t written in a really, really long time. Over the course of our relationship, by virtue of the fact that we live 950 miles apart, Joan and I have been consummate travelers […]