Posted in Chorizo, Puerto Rican, Uncategorized, bacon, capers, cheap meal, chops, cilantro, culture, olives, peas, pork, rice on May 21st, 2010
When our readers actually read our posts, it feels really good. Because we often write a lot in our post, it is understandable why some may choose not to actually read our words. We understand how many blogs exist, and many only have time to do the “blog drive-by” (you know what I’m talking [...]
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Posted in America, Chorizo, Colombian, Restaurant Review, arepas, caldo, chicharron, diversity, eating, empanadas, indulgent meal, podcast, red beans, restaurant, rice on Feb 5th, 2009

Cositas Ricas, A Colombian Food Primer:
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This podcast is an interview with our friend and native Colombian Juan Camilo Osorio covering not just the Colombian restaurant – Cositas Ricas – we visited together, but also some background on Colombian food and how it is eaten.
Some readers may remember back in the early fall when we posted about Bandeja Paisa, the gut-busting [...]
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Posted in Clams, Madrid, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, Squid, calamari, easy, fish, healthy, lemon, meal, peppers, restaurant, rice, soup, spices, tomato, vegetarian on May 5th, 2008
On our final day in Madrid, it was pissing down with rain. We spent about 4 hours walking around the Reina Sofia drooling over Picasso’s Guernica (the size of a giant museum wall) and the large amount of Dali and Miro works. We’re not really artsy-fartsy folks, but that museum made me wet myself with [...]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Korean, Potato, alcohol, alcoholic drink, beer, beverage, culture, drink, history, language, rice, tradition on Apr 2nd, 2008
To us, and we’re sure to many who enjoy eating, the pairing of a meal with a complementary beverage is a beautiful thing, but one which often seems intimidating. After all, haute cuisine restaurants can either prosper or fail on the recommendations of their sommeliers. Just imagine you ordered a $500 bottle of vintage Burgundy [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Caribbean, Garlic, Jamaican, Recipe, Recipes, allspice, beans, cheap meal, chicken, chile, cilantro, culture, easy, fried, grilled, history, orange juice, paprika, pinto beans, plantains, pork, red beans, rice, spices, spicy, tostones, weather on Feb 27th, 2008
Ahhh, jerk chicken. One of my favorite dishes. It’s spicy, kind of sweet and when made well should almost melt in your mouth. On a cold winters night, there’s nothing that can snap you out of a cold-weather-depression than cooking up something from the Islands.
Jerk was used as a way to preserve [...]
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Posted in Greek, Recipe, Recipes, cheap meal, chicken, easy, healthy, lemon, onions, oregano, orzo, pita, quick meal, rice, soup on Feb 7th, 2008
There’s a Greek restaurant up the street from where we live that makes really delicious Avgolemono Soup and we’ve been recreating it at home since we first tried it. The best way to describe this soup is like a lemony, creamy chicken soup – Avgolemono actually means ‘egg-lemon’, natch. The most interesting part about it [...]
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Posted in Chorizo, Garlic, Recipe, Recipes, beans, black beans, cheap meal, chile, chili, cilantro, easy, entertainment, lime, pinto beans, quick meal, red beans, rice, sausage, side dish, spicy, tradition on Dec 13th, 2007
It is widely-known that one of the meanest, yet most effective, ways of taking revenge on someone for an injustice is by poisoning them. Throughout history countless numbers of important and unimportant people have been killed with poison. So great was the fear of being poisoned that the kings and queens of Great Britain employed [...]
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Posted in Asian, Brooklyn, Meat, Recipe, Recipes, Restaurant Review, Ribs, Thai, beef, cilantro, lime, pressure-cooker, rant, rice on Dec 10th, 2007
Did you ever have a restaurant that you once loved and somehow, over the years, it lost its way? Did you give that restaurant just ONE last chance, hoping that it would eventually return back to it’s former self, but it never really did? One last question, did you ever give the same restaurant a “second [...]
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