In the spirit of clearing out all the useless crap from 2007 to get ready for great new things in 2008, I am finally forcing myself to write a book review of a book I’ve had sitting here in my office for over a month. Against my better judgement, I hung on to it, figuring [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Goodbye 2007, and Take Your Little Plates and Locavores With You
Everywhere you look in the media are round-ups of the best and the worst of 2007. Food writers are no exception and over the past week or so we’ve been inundated with Top 10s, predictions, best recipes for the year and more. Being the crank that I am, here is my list of the Top [...]
Order Up
Service Included by Phoebe Damrosch With all the hype about celebrity chefs these days, we tend to overlook one very important component of any restaurant crew – the server. While cheffing is most definitely hard work, it can pay off in cookbooks, endorsement deals, TV shows or at the very least, chef groupies. No fame [...]
While Visions of Sugar Plums Danced in their Heads
A version of this post originally appeared in my Lilactime LiveJournal back in November of 2004. I’m recycling it because well, I recently made sugarplums, and also because (sshhh!!!) I’m not supposed to be typing unnecessarily. I’ve been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists and I’m supposed to be taking it easy. That [...]
Cookie Day
I have had what might possibly be the best day ever. The only thing that could make it better would be if someone were to show up at my door with a huge tray of oysters. I hauled my butt out of bed this morning and headed to my alma mater, George Brown College, to [...]
