MitchW

I did notice the beverage section when just leafing through it - looks good!

I just got this one...an eBay buy: Looking forward to checking it out.

Yeah, I thought it was a pretty big story when it happened.

While I'm sure you're correct, I did once ask a once well-known restaurant critic (no longer with us) who wrote the headlines/titles for her pieces. The answer was simply: "I do." But let's move on to the article about Alison Roman's country "store," In which Callie Hitchcock writes: Actually, no - Zoe is a brand, imported from Spain.

"A Museum Cafe That Is as Much a Destination as the Art" Let's not get carried away with the headline here, Robert.

As Significant Eater notes, "he's so cute, and has great hair!" I'll note he's got an earnestness along with a bit of a punk ethos - he does Bowie well. As if it needs to be mentioned, the Bowie catalog is very, very impressive. David Bowie (1967) David Bowie[f] (1969) The Man Who Sold the World (1970) Hunky Dory (1971) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) Aladdin Sane (1973) Pin Ups (1973) Diamond Dogs (1974) Young Americans (1975) Station to Station (1976) Low (1977) "Heroes" (1977) Lodger (1979) Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) Let's Dance (1983) Tonight (1984) Never Let Me Down (1987) Black Tie White Noise (1993) The Buddha of Suburbia (1993) Outside (1995) Earthling (1997) Hours (1999) Heathen (2002) Reality (2003) The Next Day (2013) Blackstar (2016)

Saw a fun show this past weekend - the Bowie Birthday celebration - at City Winery. The Bowie Birthday Bash Hosted By Rhett Miller And Robert Burke Warren With Michael Cerveris Michael played Hedwig in the stage production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. And many other roles throughout his illustrious career. Something about singing a Bowie song really brings out the greatness in these people.

And with the totality of the original group.

If aches and pains were truly life-threatening, I'd probably be dead like 30 years.

What are you drinking?

Favorite winter salad of bitter greens, with a few additions. Mustard heavy vinaigrette. Roasted chicken parts from a cut up whole Snowdance Farm bird ( a new favorite). Breast removed 15 - 20 minutes prior.

I'm pretty certain that there are fires every year.

I think they had lobsters (you see the crab?).

Was there ever a rich man's speedball?

Reheated oven confit. Roasted potatoes, carrots, cabbage leaves. Vegetable samosas. Last night, Hokkaido scallops (barely cooked) over pasta. Sauce was a fair amount of butter, olive oil, white wine, garlic, shrimp/scallop stock.

Yes, for sure. Re: the pig - gottal be like 1/4 of the price of the crab, and feeds way more people!

21 people at Wu's = dinner at the Grill? (unless, of course, you're ordering that crazy Norwegian crab!)

Yes. A long time ago I believe I first tasted his cooking at a place called Hemlock - and we're all still alive!

As did I, though served with Charleston Gold rice; let's call this Hoppin' John.

The same reason I don’t make cookies all the time…I’d just eat them!

Who cooks in a djellaba? I prefer a busboy shirt.

Yesterday's baking projects meant might as well keep the oven going all day (there was a nice cross breeze cooling the kitchen). Overnight cure on the Hudson Valley duck legs, and then a couple of hours on low heat before crisping up the skin. Duck fat roasted potatoes. Bitter greens salad. A bonus was the almost full cup of lovely duck fat spooned out of the baking dish during the first hour or so of low-heat roasting.

As long as I was baking yesterday, and had the oven going, I wanted to try something different (for me) and new. Tried making granola for the first time. A mashup of Eleven Madison Park's and Marion Cunningham's granola recipes. Actually not bad. Rolled oats, raw pepitas, raw almonds, butter, grapeseed oil, B grade maple syrup, brown sugar, salt, dried cranberries, dried sour cherries, and raisins.

You look just like none of the people in that picture!