June 2010
7 posts
Jun 28th
Get 'em started early
Via Maestra 42 Forgive me for the kid-friendly posting.  Not to worry, I’ll resume the dick and fart jokes next time.  But I can’t stress enough how important it is to start a child early on experimenting with different foods and flavors**. It sets the table (pun completely intended, bug off if you don’t like it) for the child’s eating habits and dietary patterns in...
Jun 20th
Thick cream
The key to a simple carbonara: 1) black pepper; 2) freshly shaved parmesan; 3) pancetta (not bacon); and 4) thick cream.  It’s lack of the latter that did me in (2% milk is a poor substitute) and turned my meal into a breakfast pasta.  Thick cream is also the key component to coffee at the Applepan.
Jun 20th
Jun 9th
Parking on Abbot Kinney sucks
Joe’s Restaurant (www.joesrestaurant.com) The originator of the super-affordable, beach-proximate, pre-fixe brunch concept with killer bloody mary’s and champagne cranberry breakfast cocktails.  Nuff said. 1023 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291, (310) 399-5811
Jun 9th
If I ever get married I might move to Park City
High West Distillery and Saloon (www.highwest.com/saloon/ski-in-gastro-distillery I spent Memorial Day weekend visiting my friends and former co-contributors at S.P.’s family pool house to celebrate their collective birthdays.  In case you haven’t been to Sara’s parents’ pool house, which unless you’re a family friend or a weird stalker you probably haven’t,...
Jun 7th
Screw BP. And ourselves.
Despite feeling daily anxiety about the worst oil spill in American history, I couldn’t help but shake the feeling of being a little complicit in the corporate criminality dominating the headlines. It’s the classic chicken-and-the-egg problem.  Does corporate behavior drive our consumer patterns, or do our consumer patterns drive corporate behavior?  Case in point: today I purchased...
Jun 6th