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Made my dad a Pastrami for Passover....

and sitting outside for the first time this year listening to them

Last week, a friend received a gift of a fully cooked and smoked Wagyu beef brisket, from Southern Market in TX, via Snake River Farms. It was damn good (I made the cole slaw in the background; there was also mac & cheese and a cucumber salad). Shoulder lamb chops (round bone), salted and rested in fridge for 24 hours. Barba (Moroccan beet salad) along with a simple salad with home made ranch dressing. Those lamb chops, pan sautéed with mushrooms, and a pan sauce of drippings, white wine, chicken stock, mustard, horseradish, butter. Spanish-inspired braised new potatoes, with pimentón and saffron.

He was a chef that I really admired growing up. He was one of the people that defined the NY dining scene that created a path for people like me. He was also tirelessly generous with his time and supporting charitable initiatives supported by the industry.

Soup season is winding down, so let's have one more for the road.

At Luigi's on Thursday, Gio was serving some zeppole to a couple of his friends. Highly recommended for pastries by both Gio and a few Italian friends: Villabate Alba

Happy b'day to your better half!

@small h, I am so very sorry for your loss. Hold fast to the memories and that warm, sweet place he held in your heart.

I am so very sorry 😓. He was a very handsome fellow. I always looked forward to his cameos in your posts.

On a positive note, I was just reflecting on what a gateway it was to other writers and very memorable experiences. I bought the beaten up book below when I was 20. It contained an excerpt from Junkie and "Howl," probably my first experiences with Burroughs and Ginsberg. Of course, one of the characters in "Howl" ("who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened...") was Tuli Kupferberg, later of The Fugs. About 20 years after I bought the book, I was reporting on Tuli's posthumous 87th birthday party at The Living Theater, where Ed Sanders shared memories with me. Long before that, in my first year of college, I saw Slim Gaillard play and was able to meet him after his set. I think he's the only character in On the Road who appears under his real name.

I saw plenty of news coverage, and it made me not want to acknowledge this death. I can appreciate that opinions may differ.

the original diddy. very problematic fellow

A simple, gentle meal for an edgy night. Hake with stir-fried pea shoots and spinach, somewhere between sauteed and steamed.

Easter dinner: Roasted boneless leg of lamb with a matzah meal-date-pecan stuffing. The stuffing also had green garlic tops, and N roasted the bulbs separately Duck fat potatoes RG Yellow Eye beans Sauteed broccolini Meyer lemon posset with garden blueberries for dessert

Ramones libel. Limp Bizkit would be a more apt comparison.

Obligatory.

Looks awesome!

So sad - RIP. Absolutely great guy, who was a mentor to one of my instructors at the old Peter Kump's NY Cooking School, on E. 92nd St. Gael Greene most always loved his food too...http://insatiable-critic.com/Article.aspx?Id=1212

Also the vinegar, and of course the money.

And again. Give us an F give us a U...

May not look like much, but it is a piece of my dear sister's eggplant Parm that I froze for a night just like this. Best of all, I have another for tomorrow. Heated in the toaster oven which isn't always the best way for things, but it worked and my stomach is a happy stomach.

The lyric is JASMINE? TIL.

Blowing through the Jasmine in my mind.....

Trader Joe’s! If you can believe it. They’re pretty good!

Love those cannoli

Paler knows "dap"? No, I think the typical reader is older, college-educated, probably quite diverse. Maybe the reader knows "edgelord" and that's good, but I am surprised they need to have the Chitlin' Circuit explained.

All of them.

At an osteria in Rome on Thursday, Festa di San Giuseppe there, I had zeppole for dessert, traditional for that day, which I learned is also celebrated as Father’s Day.

Yesterday, St. Joseph's Day. And also Sig Eater's birthday. Requested for lunch: Some nice slices. In Greenwood Heights. I guess.

Milan trip was short notice so couldn't get a table at what appeared to be the best reviewed and most interesting looking places per various corners of the interwebs (Nebbia. Trippa looked the best and I would try to get in there on my next visit. There were other ideas i had but those two it was hard to find a bad word about) Ended up at a Trippa related place Osteria all Concorrenza. Excellent. Like what an oughts Italian wine bar in Nyc dreamt of being. Very limited menu - really snacks, cheese and charcuterie to pair with a nice natural wine list. Bill was less than 40 euro a person with wine.

at 67

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/arts/music/chip-taylor-dead.html Wrote a coupla good songs, I think.

87. Early yacht rocker.