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I've heard through the grapevine that MF member Maureen O'Reilly passed away yesterday. I can't remember what her screen name was, as there are many folks here whose real name (or full name) I've never learned.

A mixture of traditions: a bialy followed by a hot cross bun.

More fun under Pete's Tavern. The only bar in the city "legally permitted" to remain open during Prohibition. From the bar's own website: Never mind. We can agree that O. Henry is said to have written "The Gift of the Magi" here. But then... WTF. I have read that story perhaps thirty times. There is no bar, there is no drinking, there is no bar-like atmosphere. It's like saying a bar's atmosphere might have inspired the setting of Bambi or The Wizard of Oz.

Oddly, I can't see a date on this book, but it just showed up in the library so I guess it's new. The work of photographers James and Karla Murray, text by Dan Q. Dao. Not the first such book I've looked at, but it can be a pleasure to see which bars got chosen and what is said about them. The photographs here are absolutely gorgeous. The text is an ocean of stupidity. First up, reasonably enough, McSorley's. Dan? You cannot pull up a seat to the bar. There is no bar seating in McSorley's. Never has been. I guess you could pull up one of the chairs from the tables around the room which would put the bar around your eye level. And "small" mugs, small, why would you need a friend? Reads like he has never been there. His bio says he's been in the city twelve years and has even bar-tended. But this is just junk. But wait, surely he can pull history from a reference book. Only very gingerly: Emphasis added. I'd love to see some of the less frequent alternative narratives.

Around 40 people, and once everyone who could fit was sat, they switched to a virtual wait list (with a scan code), so no one had to stand around outside.

How bad was the line/wait by the time they opened?

Sadly leaving Monday but thank you.

Okay, I remember being obsessed with Rachel Ward.

We were obsessed with Thornbirds. "No more nasty hookythorns!"

I already have some ground lamb for passover. I'm not sure if I'll be making koftes or a mina, which is sephardic meat and matzo pie.

If you are still in Austin on Tuesday you can see Carolyn Wonderland at the Continental Club.

One week today I will have seen the best live band in the world five times (and also have eaten elk at Lonesome Dove). On Sunday night I will be wandering around in a warm glow looking for bars with good music.

As a kid I go back to Dr Kildare. Made him a huge TV star. Anyone else?

we bought some lamb shanks from guerra’s quality meats. they’ll be roasted for a few hours and served with potatoes and horta. the latter, this time, will be beet greens and spinach. hubby is visiting my father-in-law next week (who you may recall is in assisted living in new jersey). i said “we’ll see you in a few months” … so i have been following your adventures in the “places to be curious about” thread with great interest 😉 because we’ll follow that visit with a trip to nyc.

technically this was brunch yesterday pernil with black beans, rice, salad, fried plantains at boogaloos (3296 22nd (valencia)) hubby had an omelette and a friend had eggs benny.

pasta with scallops and asparagus

The handsomest of all the thornbirds.

Almost 91.

Ah, you do the full chametz clean then. Otherwise, lamb matzo pizza could be interesting.

I'm probably alone in my curiosity about the New York Food Court on Roosevelt Ave. in Flushing, since I assume most people on this board have already been there. But not me! Until today! It was, as they say on the Empire Szechuan menu about the Buddhist Delight, a spendiferous array. My favorites were the snail noodle soup, with excellent and impossibly long noodles, and not much evidence of snail. And these razor clams with mushrooms and a mess of other stuff, in a light broth. I also loved these tiger skin eggs, but I think I was in the minority.

Some highlights from my visit (with four others) to the 3rd weekend pop-up of Banh Anh-Em , sister to the rabidly popular Banh on the UWS. I got there an hour before opening and was first in line (though only for about thirty seconds). Totally worth it. Noodle soup with crab & snail (so crabby! so snaily!). Turmeric catfish, fatty and excellent, with dill and (unnecessary, according to me) rice noodles. Sticky rice with egg and a variety of meats, very kindly placed on the side to accommodate my meat-averse self. I will be stalking this place for their weekend specials. It's so much more convenient for me than the Morningside Heights one.

I probably got my recipe from https://www.seriouseats.com/white-negroni-cocktail-recipe. The first time I had Cocchi Americano was at a brunch somewhere in Brooklyn a few years ago, with (among others) Koharu from Bar Goto. So I would've started making white Negronis after that.

The Pegu Club recipe (Phil Ward's) is/was: 2 oz. Plymouth 1 oz. Lillet Blonde (Blanc) .75 Oz. suze Lemon twist Dante's is quite different...https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/dantes-negroni-bianco/

I make white Negronis with Cocchi Americano, gin and dry vermouth.

With Passover starting in two weeks, I'm trying to empty out my freezer. Since I discovered some homemade pizza dough and some ground lamb, I made a very large lachmagine.