Posted in Argentina, Meat, Potato, Recipe, Steak, Uruguay, bacon, beef, cheese, goat, ham, jamon, olives, pepper, tomato, tourism, travel, unhealthy on Jan 7th, 2010
Made during the horrid, self-reflective, and, frequently, gassy hours aboard a trans-Atlantic flight this past weekend, our New Year’s resolutions swore us to no less than three weeks of Spartan, monkish grazing on whole grains, green vegetables and lean protein in order to trim ourselves of burgeoning, lumpy mid-sections brought on by the combined Holiday [...]
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Posted in African American, America, Recipe, Recipes, chicken, crispy, fried, history, oil, savory, sour cream, sweet, unhealthy, waffles on Oct 19th, 2009
Chicken and Waffles. Two foods that many obsess over individually but wouldn’t even think to pair together. Why, I wonder? Have you ever dipped your crunchy piece of bacon into your pancake syrup, even if it’s accidental? How about some fabulous thai sauces that have that sweet sticky flavor paired with some fried calamari? What [...]
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Posted in America, Italian, Italian-American, Meat, New Jersey, Pasta, Philadelphia, Recipe, Recipes, chops, gravy, offal, pigs, sauce, sausage, slow cooking, trotter, unhealthy on Jan 19th, 2009
They (we) call it a Sunday Gravy because it really suits a Sunday best. The long simmering, the wine drinking, the letting-it-sit-on-the-stove-till-the-family-arrives kind of gravy. Thanks to the Sopranos, people all over the world have heard of Sunday Gravy. Some scratch their heads in wonder as to why some call it sauce and others call [...]
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Posted in Emilia Romagna, Italian, Italy, Modena, Pizza, Recipe, Tuscan, acorns, balsamico, delicacy, indulgent meal, lard, lardo, pigs, rosemary, salami, tourism, travel, unhealthy, vinegar on Nov 7th, 2008
Have you ever eaten something so fabulous, so lucious, so decadent that you almost felt the need to run to confession (to confess your indulgent food “sins”), say three Hail Mary’s (that’s for you Catholics out there) and pray really hard that you can zip your jeans up again? Ok, a bit exaggerated, but looking [...]
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Posted in Canada, Food Commentary, French, Montreal, Restaurant Review, butter, cornichons, cream, death, dining, eating, embarrassment, fried, fritters, indulgent meal, mushrooms, offal, spinach, tongue, tourism, travel, trotter, unhealthy, vinaigrette on Oct 21st, 2008
Gentle readers, please sympathize with me, for I, like a man who’s been dining exclusively on centipedes, have the bitter taste of defeat in my mouth. That this humiliation and defeat arrived, to twist a metaphor, at the hands of nothing more sinister than a pig’s foot, has only served to exacerbate these feelings of embarrassment and self-loathing.
Those of you [...]
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Posted in America, Cajun, Canada, Food Commentary, French, Louisiana, Recipe, Recipes, alligator, blood, boudin, braised, corn, eating, grilled, hominy, lentils, offal, pigs, sausage, shrimp, tradition, unhealthy on Aug 28th, 2008
A few months ago I was contacted by a representative of a site called cajungrocer.com. He offered to send us some Cajun treats if we would do a bit of a write-up on their products. Well, what else could I say but “Hell YEAH!”. We had our choice to sample crayfish, turducken or boudin. It [...]
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Posted in Bastille Day, Carcassonne, Europe, Food Commentary, France, French, French-ness, culture, eating, festival, french fries, fried, grilled, grilling, history, holiday, patriotism, podcast, sandwiches, sausage, street food, summer, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on May 6th, 2008
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A few summers ago we were very fortunate to spend a long vacation traveling through northern Spain and southwestern France. It was our first real vacation alone since Amy and I had met, and was especially well-deserved because we had spent the previous 12 months going through the traumatic [...]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Jeffrey Steingarten, embarrassment, healthy, hearty, important details, medical, obesity, safety, unhealthy, weight on Mar 31st, 2008
As regular readers will already know, we are gourmands, and not necessarily gourmets. [For those of you who aren't sure of the technical differences between these two terms, a gourmet is a connoisseur of fine food and drink, a gourmand is a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.] And, [...]
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