[NFL 2023-2024]

2 hours ago, hollywood10 said:

So you see him primarily in a DH role?

Good way to extend his career, no?  Maybe pitch a little relief?

[NFL 2023-2024]

I think, as far as the Dodgers are concerned, the pitching doesn't matter as much as the hitting.

[Dr. John Talbott]

14 hours ago, Orik said:

A founding father of modern homelessness? I never knew.

I think it was a little further back - maybe Tiglath-Pileser III, King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire?

[Ryan O'Neal]

8 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Tatum still alive, yes? 

Yes - unfortunately, she doesn't live across the street any more.  The crack buy drug bust back in '08 didn't help.

[NFL 2023-2024]

On 10/3/2023 at 11:19 AM, hollywood10 said:

It would help if the O-line didn't let him get sacked every other play.  But, yeah, $160,000,000.  No wonder my cable bill is so high.

It's only gonna get higher, Dodger fan.

5 hours ago, hollywood10 said:

How about those Cowboys?

Yeah, they're good at home.

[Dr. John Talbott]

John's obit in the NY Times...unpaywalled click.

[Cocktail Recipes Tonight]

I just bought 4 375ML bottles of vermouth (2 red, 2 white) so I don’t have to try to find the bottles I know are here…somewhere.

[Reasons to be Cheerful]

And believe me, I still think I'm going to get bills for hundreds of thousands of dollars for back surgery I had!

Where the doctor and his team told me that they take whatever they get from insurance, and that's it. And when I asked if they could put that in writing, they kinda laughed...and said no.

[Reasons to be Cheerful]

52 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

got this stack of envelopes from an imaging service

East River Medical Imaging?

[Reasons to be Cheerful]

47 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

 

But no:  it was only a major data breach they were telling me about.

I got a breach letter the other day too!!

[Supper]

Hanukkah Rigatoni Amatriciana (Roscioli style).

[Supper]

A sorta Greek style fish "soup."  With leeks, onions, shallots, garlic, celery, carrots, red pepper, potatoes, Greek oregano, and probably one or two things I'm forgetting.  Wild striped bass and wild halibut are the two fishes.

[singlethread farm]

1 hour ago, backyardchef said:

I thought that was always how it was......

There are definitely parts of Sonoma County that would make you think otherwise.

[Sailor, Fort Greene]

12 minutes ago, sourbroughten said:

Where was the Wells review published? I can't find it online.

The review is sent to subscribers who sign up to receive it.

Here it is  unpaywalled...https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/dining/restaurant-review-april-bloomfield-sailor-brooklyn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk0.30DM.39IAOUPrdhQW&smid=url-share

[Sailor, Fort Greene]

I don't know, Pete; I'm wondering if there is really an equivalency there.

[Is Grub Street's "Reporting" Sinking to the Level of Eater's?]

2 hours ago, backyardchef said:

Sounds like a Sietsema Award candidate. 

No - TT is way more astute than RS.

[Next to Honor Bobby Flay]

5 hours ago, AaronS said:

I was wondering if anyone here could opine about mesa grill. eta: apparently it closed in 2013, I assume whatever excellence they’re celebrating was long gone by then

We felt Mesa Grill was very good in the early-mid 90s, and I remember it when Flay was actually in the kitchen. (I thought my wife would pass out when he came over to the table to say hi, not because of us, but because of who we were dining with).

They also had a pretty damn good bar program (especially tequilla), which for most restaurants at that time, was progressive.

[zz’s club]

1 hour ago, Mitchell101 said:

I was invited to a dinner here this Tuesday evening but I am in Florida for a week visiting family and attending a wedding. 👎🏼

As heinous as Florida is, I might choose it over that "club."

[scandal]

1 minute ago, Orik said:

If you can't trust the wine storage people and you can't trust the crypto exchanges, who can you trust??? 

George Santos?

[Supper]

Spanish rice with mushrooms, getting closer to the al dente style I'm looking for.

Most of a round-bone shoulder lamb chop, pan cooked, with pan jus.  The other half of the chop, sliced, went to my other half.

Roasted Brussels sprouts.

[Greenmarket]

4 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

I bought the most symetrically knobbed Jerusalem Artichoke I've ever seen this morning.

It's freakish.

 

4 hours ago, small h said:

Bioengineering?

 

3 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

I have to wonder.

Maybe they just force it to behave?

 

[Is Grub Street's "Reporting" Sinking to the Level of Eater's?]

3 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

Me too.

She said one titanically stupid thing a few weeks ago -- that Italian restaurants in America are better than Italian restaurants in Italy -- but even Homer nods.

that was it!!

[The Rest of Us (cont.)]

I miss Roosevelt Field.  And the racetrack, which back then had good knishes and franks!

[San Sebastian - Donostia 2023]

24 minutes ago, Mitchell101 said:

That is where I believe we stayed too. Gin and tonic bar in the lobby? I understand that may not narrow it down. 

Indeed! (We failed on the cheesecake - but not the cheese!)

 

[Is Grub Street's "Reporting" Sinking to the Level of Eater's?]

7 minutes ago, Orik said:

It is something of an Industry hangout for sure. 

This is really interesting to me. Is the wine list great or anything? Or just cause it's such a tiny, "exclusive" place?

51 minutes ago, GerryOlds2TheReturnofGerry said:

Why do we think Tammie jumped the shark?

I'll pull back on the jumped the shark comment. Until I can remember what the hell I'm talking about.