January 2012
4 posts
Not friendly for the paleo-diet
Think you’d like to know how much gruyere cheese and butter are in a croque monsieur sandwich?
No, actually you don’t. Shut up and just eat the sandwich. It’s easy enough that even an incompetent bachelor can draw one up in his apartment without too much effort. If you have some whole milk, a little flour, gruyere and parmesan cheese, nutmeg, butter and pepper, you can...
Hipsters and Koreans
I have found the nexus of Silverlake and Koreatown. It is the new gastropub “Beer Belly” on Western Avenue. Every single patron was wearing a plaid shirt or was Korean…or both. Also, every single dish either had a pork product in or had some sort of maple accent or glaze. Amazing for those of us with pig deficiencies in our diet.
Beer Belly, 532 S. Western Avenue, Los...
Start with breakfast
I can’t cook for shit, but like any man, I can make breakfast. A heart attack-inducing breakfast, that is. Try a poached egg, scallions and pepper on pulled pork on freshly baked corn bread. Don’t forget the cholesterol meds.
We live in a fickle eating culture →
Angeli Caffe on Melrose Avenue will be closing after many, many years of providing reasonably priced, high quality casual Italian fare. Fuck, I will miss those gnochetti balls.
This closure on the heels of the imminent closure of Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago later this year (which I have not yet experienced) is starting 2012 on an ignominious streak.