Best Restaurant In Taipei

March 23, 2008 – 12:19 am

I ate here. It’s every bit as good as the review suggests. Seb’s description and photos tell more, I’ll post my own photos soon. Update: posted.
Short story: there’s a restaurant in Australia with a three month waiting list, but a Sydney Morning Herald reporter says the restaurant I ate at is its equal or better, [...]

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Great Name, But Is It Any Good?

March 11, 2008 – 11:32 am

?Spork? is a great name for a restaurant, but is it any good? Yelp says it is, but most of the reviews mention the burger, putting me in the position of having to review the reviewers and wonder if a hamburger person can recommend a restaurant to a vegetarian. Not that I am a vegetarian [...]

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Restaurant Review: Cotton

September 30, 2007 – 12:11 pm

First Impressions
How much is too much for an entree at a place that plays the kind of anonymous Muzak that Kenny G calls jazz and is decorated like Applebee’s? Trust me, I like renovated mill buildings, but why confuse it with faux grecian columns and too many pictures of dead celebrities? I mean, the interior [...]

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Playing With Food

September 9, 2007 – 11:25 am

Like all well bred women, my mother always told me not to play with my food. However, as we get older we realize that sometimes ignoring the rules is just as important as, generally, following them. Food is fun. It has wonderful tastes, smells, colors, and textures. Something with so many wonderful attributes is just [...]

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Peanut Butter Burger

July 20, 2007 – 11:03 am

Now matter how depressed I got in New Orleans, I still had to eat. A tip from the ladies at Molly’s on Toulouse led me to Yo Moma’s with instructions to try their peanut butter burger.
Yes. Peanut butter. On a burger. I was also told that if I don’t like mayo, I should tell them [...]

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down for fifteen years straight, up like a rocket now

June 11, 2007 – 7:08 pm

After being down for fifteen years straight, milk consumption is up. Up big, and prices are rising to meet it.
milk, food, consumption, market economies

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Foods I Want To Try…

February 10, 2007 – 10:06 am

Despite the mystery, porklets are quite yummy, at least according to Sandee’s recipe.
What I want to try next is bacon cheesecake or chili powder on french toast or maraschino cherries mixed with jalapeños. All of those sound delightful to me.
Extra: sausage man, don’t eat that, don’t try this at home.
bacon, cheesecake, chili powder, food, jalapeños, [...]

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Eat-Rite Diner, St. Louis MO

October 7, 2006 – 12:29 am

Some time ago in St Louis, I stumbled upon Eat-Rite Diner. Aparently I wasn’t the first to be taken in by its charms. Yelp notes:
This is a MUST in St. Louis. However don’t go here for the friendly staff, good food, or fun atmosphere. This place is a joke! They will need to buzz you [...]

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The Twig’s Grand Opening

June 23, 2006 – 12:18 am

Wendy sent out this invite last week:
Last month the Monningers quite suddenly became restauranteurs. Six weeks later, Wendy, Joe and Pie are excited to announce the Grand Opening of ?the Twig?– an ever-so-cute restaurant in their hometown of Warren, NH.
On Saturday, June 24th from 11-2 come to the Twig for free pizza and cake. Win [...]

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Sweet Portland

May 28, 2006 – 3:28 pm

I have to thank Caleb and Caroline for showing around town, and offer my apologies to Heidi and Alice, who had offered me tips and suggestions that I (again) didn’t have time to follow up on. Someday I’ll enjoy a Stanich burger; someday I’ll find Rimsky-Korsakoffee; heck, someday I’ll even get to Powells.

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Whisky Essential To Writing

March 12, 2006 – 11:03 am

God bless William Faulkner for pointing it out:
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
food, paper, quote, supplies, tobacco, tools of the trade, whisky, William Faulkner, writer, writing

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Indian Frankie

January 29, 2006 – 11:41 am

The plan was to meet Jessamyn and Greg at the India Queen last night, so discovering this note yesterday on Slashfood about ?frankies? had the added excitement of both discovering a new food I wanted to eat, and being in a position to get it that day — the sort of instant satisfaction one doesn’t [...]

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The Eating, Drinking, and Dancing in Vegas

December 30, 2005 – 4:11 pm

Vegas knows liquor. Vegas knows drinks. They go well with cards and dice and slot machines and such. And even though the cards and dice and slot machines and such aren’t my reasons for going to town, I do enjoy a drink. Above, center you see the West Wing Bar’s Sidecar with cognac, [...]

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Thanksgiving

November 24, 2005 – 12:36 pm

There is, supposedly, some historical meaning to our Thanksgiving holiday, but all I can figure out is that I wasn’t there and it probably didn’t go as I’ve been told. Thing is, Thanksgiving isn’t so much about what we were, but who we are. Thanksgiving celebrates the two most important things in life: food and [...]

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Harmon’s Lunch

November 20, 2005 – 10:08 am

I learned of Harmon’s Lunch from a mention on The Splendid Table a few weeks ago. I wrote down the following quote from the show from memory, so it may not be entirely accurate:
They have two things on the menu, and nobody ever orders the other one. They serve hamburgers, and the only option is [...]

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