On Restaurants, Dining, Streetfood, and a truthy voice on food blogging
At some point in my life, instead of going to the school that was a five minute bike ride away from my house, I got bussed into an inner city school in order to learn English more easily. Little did I or my parents know, all I needed wasn’t a special teacher, but just five things to learn English: Leonardo, Donatello, Rafael, Michaelangelo and Lavar Burton. One that thing I saw about the inner city school was that during recess, double dutch was a thing. It was never so in the suburbs where we lived. Made me think that sometimes, some things just are how they are. You can’t fuck with it. That’s one thing I think hipsters in Brooklyn love to do, because that’s our on-demand economy. Disrupt some shit. Do something you don’t normally do, but sometimes it doesn’t always work. Such as Ample Hill’s summer ice cream sandwich. It just wasn’t cohesive, and I don’t give a fuck what any whitey tells you…. [Continue reading]
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October 1, 2015 at 1:22 am
One of the benefits of marrying someone who is very different from me is that there are new food items to grow to love. Kouign Amann is a buttery pastry with crispy bits. It’s sweet and literally means butter cake. Far Breton is a cake with a consistency like a stiff flan, and it has dried prunes scattered within the cake. I never had any idea these two things existed until wifey came into the picture…. [Continue reading]
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September 30, 2015 at 1:54 am
About a week after returning from France, I was eager to try the newest ice cream fad in New York – 10 Below Ice Cream. We walked by but the line was out of the door and I just gave up on that. But my ice cream loving belly was not to be deterred and we went back a week later, and I guess the trick was that we arrived before noon. If you haven’t heard of 10 Below before, basically the ice cream is made in front of you. That sounds kind of crazy but they seem to have these anti-griddles that freeze liquids really fast and they do that a la minute. The lines out the door? It’s because it takes time to make each order…. [Continue reading]
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September 27, 2015 at 11:24 pm
One of those things that Americans rarely think about is what would it look like when some other entity supplants our dominance. If there’s one thing that born-here Americans have that naturalized Americans don’t have, and other humans of the world don’t have, I think that is it. In the States, GM used to dominate car sales and now world wide they’re behind Toyota and Volkswagon. Fast food is something that Murica dominates as well in terms of cultural power, as I’ve seen some gigantic KFC stores in France that look bigger than any store in the U.S. The thing is, there aren’t that many of them. McDonalds obviously dominates, but number two is a brand called Quick…. [Continue reading]
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September 26, 2015 at 3:33 pm
I made some jiaozi dumplings for my in-laws this summer in Brittany. The wrapper was hand made, and the filling came from pork sausage. Surprisingly, in their small French town we were able to get our hands on Chinese cabbage. So it turned out decently well, considering it was my fourth time making jiaozi wrappers from scratch. I shared a picture of it on facebook and someone asked why I used sausage meat squeezed from casings. The reason was that as Americans, we’re used to certain cuts being available at the meat counter in the supermarket, and if you’re lucky to live near a Chinatown, you also see what an Asian store has. In France it’s not the same. You want spare ribs? Good luck. Babyback ribs? Shrink wrapped and marinated in sauce already. Ground pork? Not so widely available. Sausage? Everywhere…. [Continue reading]
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September 15, 2015 at 10:56 am
One of the things that is really new about being a parent is the little things that make you geek out and have a positive reaction. I can imagine this… [more]
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April 30, 2016 at 11:30 am 
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn’t get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it’s nice to take… [more]
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March 30, 2016 at 11:30 am 
I am a dad now! It’s only been about a month, and it’s as surreal to write that now was it was when my son first came into the world. Being… [more]
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February 29, 2016 at 2:27 am 
For the food loving couple that’s hobbled by the exclamation of, “I’m getting too old for this,” there’s some usefulness in food courts…. [more]
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January 10, 2016 at 1:12 am 
When the semester cycles to an end, my brain basically cannot fit everything all in, and that’s why the blog has really suffered. My plan for the… [more]
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December 31, 2015 at 8:39 pm