mongo

intriguing. the price is not that much higher. but evelyn, in your experience has it always arrived looking like it does in the product pic? because in the reviews there are descriptions and pictures of very mushy uni.

it's not maine uni per se i have questions about--i've had it before as well. i'm just not sure about the likely quality at places showing me ads on facebook. for example.

i'm being shown a lot of ads for mail order maine uni. very tempted to get some. should i resist?

what more evidence does anyone need that success and ability have no necessary correlation under late capitalism? the mind boggles at the thought that enough people (whether viewers/readers or ny times food dept. higher ups) evidently find her charming enough to compensate.

i guess our eating there in october was the last straw. i did wonder given how easy it was to get seats and how very not full the restaurant was that sunday evening. still, it was a good meal and i'm glad we had a chance to eat there.

didn't she once "sample" homeless shelter food?

there's something very sweet about the dude who is fine with continuing to feed her for free if she comes back. who knows, maybe it's not sweetness but a hope of getting some insta recognition (she must have a large following--i have not checked).

the green isaac's special looks related for sure. apparently originates in one of hemingway's books.

running dangerously ahead. considering adding a warm salad of roasted cauliflower, marinated artichoke hearts and orange to the pile.

a smaller gathering of our friends this year as several are out of town. still, with kids at various stages of grown, we are a party of 11. the group prefers if in most years i don't deviate from the standard offering: upper midwestern cheese, cured meats and freshly-baked bread will be laid out to accompany cocktails* for the main event: roasted squash soup with ginger, coconut milk and lime leaf roast turkey (spatchcocked and dry-brined with salt, pepper and cracked coriander seed; mashed garlic will be massaged under the skin before it goes in the oven) herbed oyster stuffing--an old favourite from the old epicurious the almighty indiana soofle x 2 (to be safe) mashed potatoes giblet gravy cranberry chutney to this our friends will add some vegetable and grain-based sides, pies and home-made ice cream *i am going to be serving a choice of two "manhattans" made with an oaky/sweet/spicy american malt whiskey and tapped maple syrup infused with bittercube's cherry bark vanilla bitters something i'm calling "the outcast of the islands": gin, grenadine, lime, coconut water, angostura bitters (cocktail mavens: please let me know if this is already a thing) in my annual burst of lunatic optimism, i have suggested wines for our friends to bring to go with the main meal. in their annual disregard of my desires, they will bring whatever plonk they have lying around their homes.

i think you'll really enjoy my chicken tiki marsala recipe. it's very authentic.

i think she's probably not mentioned in that piece because she's not on the nyc beat--even korai kitchen was reviewed by mishan.

it was only as we were walking away from bar goto that i realized i had completely forgotten to tell you all about the book or give you steve's regards. i blame mamdani.

so it's come to this...

ah, priya krishna and her family!

the solution is simple: move to jersey city.

oh, you delicate new yorkers! we visitors from the provinces happily took the path back to our hotel in newark after dinners in manhattan and brooklyn a couple of weeks ago.

a dangerous frontier, i agree.

presumably, a larger retrospective than we took in at the whitney in 2023 that was focused on her drawings ("through line"). yes, really wonderful stuff.

not that much more exclusive than tiny chef's counters that seat fewer people and open a few more nights a week (and make you eat fermented moss while sitting on stools).

there's clearly a correction in progress in the post-wells era re the times' coverage of restaurants serving non-european/japanese-derived food. arguably, an over-correction from time to time (see the bungalow embarrassment) but what's the issue with the korai kitchen review?

and we had similar feelings about the monet. a pain to navigate, the majority of it decidedly not monet in venice, but also some stunning paintings from venice. on the whole, though, felt somewhat cobbled together, especially in light of the last similar exhibition we'd seen in the city (matisse and derain in a fishing village one summer, at the met in 2023).

as previously reported. many (i think*) of the large prints were made very close to or after his death in 2002. the striking self-portrait at the entrance of the exhibition (the one that's also blown up and projected on the wall) was only printed in 2018. *i bought the book of the exhibition--will check when i get home.

the other red meat.

had drinks on sunday with a couple who should know. my understanding is it's going to return as a chicken tenders shop: fox in the henhouse is the working title.