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  2. We've lived in our current home for 47 years. Turn of the century neighborhood of big unattached houses, back yards. Little turnover but massive renovations when houses are sold. On our block we have two Chinese and one Indian family, two venture capitalists and the city's best orthodontist. Husband jokes that we live in a better neighborhood than our neighbors because we don't have any poor white trash nextdoor.
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  4. I do like traveling but the great part is when you really love home and you head back. Trouble-free flying and JetBlue bought me a number of free drinks because the crew can’t be bothered with the whole charging thing. I really will write up Partage which was excellent. The filet at Herbs & Rye was meh, but it was a $30 steak rather than a $60 steak, see above. I thought I had already posted this but they couldn’t offer any cocktails with Chartreuse. The supply is so restricted that most of it goes to the casino-resorts and they have a small allowance every month. If I posted that in some other thread forgive me, having deja vu.
  5. As reported on the Las Vegas thread, the classic cocktail bar I visited was out of Chartreuse. I discovered that because I ordered a Bijou (c.1900 but revived by Dale DeGroff). Home this evening I made one myself and it’s very good. But I made it with the last of my Chartreuse. Chartreuse hunt is on. Oh, equal parts gin, Chartreuse and sweet vermouth, but some of us nudge the gin up a little.
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  7. I live in a neighborhood of well-maintained homes and gardens. I also live in a neighborhood of small apartment houses, not well-maintained homes, and front yards with cars on blocks. Fireworks are a regular nighttime occurrence from May through October, as is the occasional gunshot in empty lots from folks taking target practice. My cul-de-sac of 13 houses has residents of White, Black, Mexican, Filipino, and Vietnamese ancestry. My city has one of the largest per-capita Pacific Islander populations in the mainland US. My city is on no one's idea of hip places to live, but it has its own vibe.
  8. Nice Mekelburg's send-off https://www.grubstreet.com/article/mekelburgs-closes-in-clinton-hill.html
  9. ooh i might need one of those. i forget to order a new thermometer during the sale every year
  10. Thanks @MitchW. I just ordered one.
  11. Finally you are learning how to do Las Vegas! 👍
  12. Where I live, neighbors ask me in which apartment I work and try to poach me as a cleaner or companion. Where I live, neighbors tell me that I need to check in with the doorman before I bring a delivery upstairs.
  13. A friend wrote this book about her father's quest to bring quality healthcare to Black and poor citizens of Kansas City, Missouri. The health center he built just had its 50th anniversary. Segregation and continuing disinvestment are definitely still very much a thing.
  14. I am currently reading East of Troost which is largely about segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, fictionalized but quite the way I recall it back in the 50s-70s when I was growing up here. I find it interesting that much of that segregation still exists all these decades later. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Not everything is up to date in Kansas City. That said, living around 30 years in Orange County, CA, if I saw a black person in the area, it was startling. It was changing by the time we moved and I don't get back there much now, so am not sure whether or not the Orange curtain is still closed.
  15. I used to be glued to timers, but now I use Echo devices for timing everything. Alexa micromanages my life. 😁
  16. Almost 4 feet, I think. Probe cable (47" long) survives 700°F
  17. People have an opinion about where you live. I am not innocent. I work with a company where everyone is remote and I constantly ask myself, why would you live *there*? But we’re all different. I have lived in Harlem for four years. I have lived in a bunch of places in the city that no one has opinions about. Boy do people have opinions about Harlem. All smiley-face positive. The most frequent response when I tell people where I’m from is “Oh, I hear it’s a good place now.” These are white people of course. I also get, “Oh, interesting.” Yesterday I did get a recommendation for Harlem Biscuit Co from an Atlanta native who had visited recently and was a plausible judge of biscuits. In an Uber tonight, a centro-European guy who had been to NYC once said, “So it’s no ghetto any more? When did it stop being ghetto?” At least that’s direct. Tomorrow morning, home to Harlem.
  18. Wilfrid

    Richard Serra

    Years of walking around his torques and trying to grasp how they actually powerfully charge and change the space around them. And then there’s the infinitely beautiful and long-term changing surfaces. But also the dramatic black paint stick works on (I think) paper that one of my artist friends understatedly described as “very strong.”
  19. I had an opportunity to meet him a number of times when I worked at YU.
  20. Wilfrid

    Joe Lieberman

    Was he involved in No Labels? Don’t answer that, it’s political and I have Google. I just mistyped “that” and spellcheck suggested “Tuareg.” ETA: Wow, they are out of Chartreuse. This shortage is a real thing. The casinos get the lion’s share and an independent bar like this gets a limited monthly allocation. A big corporation needs to seize this from the monks.
  21. I congratulate myself for getting off-strip again tonight, this time to Herbs & Rye, recommended by the Partage bartenders (it’s nearby). A long list of classic cocktails organized by period of origin, plus an Italian-American menu where they are currently discounting steaks 50%. Okay, that is definitely not Strip-like.
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  23. How long is the wire that connects the probe to the base? I think I need to replace my current meat thermometer.
  24. MitchW

    Joe Lieberman

    Four-time senator. VP Candidate. At 82. R.I.P.
  25. I will offer more detail on Partage when I get some downtime, but it’s really very good. And one of my appetizers last night will be in the running for dish of the year. Imagine a small crunchy sphere balanced on top of a torchon rabbit loin. Bite into the sphere and it’s stuffed with assertively flavored eel. Combine that flavor with the milder, perfectly cooked (not at all dry) rabbit and the results are incredible. Another dish that made me think of Wylie’s foie and anchovies although I very much doubt that Partage’s young French chef, who has been to NYC rarely, was influenced by it.
  26. voyager

    Richard Serra

    Good grief! I went to school with his brother but never connected the two.
  27. MitchW

    NFL 2024-2025

    I think it'll add some excitement back into kickoff returns, which had fallen to an all-time low. And hopefully, reduce injuries during those plays.
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