mongo

well, yes.

glad to hear he is out of that hell (and you too). and glad that you have memories of the time before to sustain you.

yes.

one of the best shows i've ever seen was wilco in los angeles (at the el rey maybe?) right after being there came out. they pretty much tore it down and rebuilt it live as a loud, almost punk rock album. the whole show was an extended out of body experience.

she's already co-written the book on the subject.

if she is the best they could do as interim critic then be very afraid.

anyway, as i've posted hilariously elsewhere, priya krishna reviewing a restaurant by vikas khanna seems only appropriate.

is this disaster really the new times restaurant critic?

it was good. here's where we ate: state bird provisions yank sing copra del popolo city view 606 dinner at copra was outstanding. perhaps the best indian meal i've ever had in the u.s and up there with the best in london. and we preferred city view's dim sum (and experience) to yank sing. more detailed reviews of all the meals will start showing up on the blog next week.

i don't even have five minutes to listen to a podcast.

um, no, i meant inexplicable that he had not been inducted a long time ago.

around the same time that he became "a legend in New York City food circles".

did i say "suvir's extremely cringe-inducing exit" from top chef masters? i was actually referring to his becoming "a break-out star on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters."

even as capricious/inexplicable as the hall of fame's choices over the years have been, that one is hard to fathom.

ah yes. i mostly remember that edition of top chef masters (was there another?) for suvir's extremely cringe-inducing exit from it.

two out of four in that top chef masters photo have passed away untimely. (well, i'm assuming the woman in the red top is still with us; des jardins is quoted in the obit.)

my introduction to bob newhart was via newhart, which came to us in india in reruns when satellite tv arrived in the early 1990s. it was a patchy show (though with very strong moments). it wasn't until i arrived in the u.s a few years later and happened on nick at nite that i understood who bob newhart really was. the dick van dyke show, the bob newhart show, the mary tyler moore show*: nick at nite gave me such an idealized introduction to america. *i always forget that the mary tyler moore show started before the bob newhart show.

poor hemant is trying so hard to be hip, he's going to break his hip.

it's going weirdly: we had a very rainy and grey second half of june/early july. we were also gone most of that time. the plants were suffering from too much water and not enough sun when we got back. they are even now generally all very under-developed relative to past years with more normal rain/sun balance. this week is the first of two with a lot of sun and heat and so i'm hoping things will bounce back. let's see--last year's garden was a dead loss (we were gone most of the summer and i'm not sure the person who was taking care of it had much time to pay attention to it) and it would be a bummer to have a second disappointing season in a row (though none of it would rise to the level of this thread, of course--does the new incarnation of the site have a gardening thread)?

i've been posting, evelyn--i just hadn't been reading this thread.

my first time reading this thread in more than a year. best wishes to all those dealing with difficulties, personal or to near and dear ones.

hold the metal lid to the flame on your stove. do it before joe biden takes your gas stove away from you.

you need to turn up the heat on your boiler. that tepid drizzle isn't going to get the job done.

next you're going to tell me you don't have a sabre on hand to deal with the most recalcitrant lids.

god, you people are weak. also, none of you know to hold the metal lid of a jar under very hot running water in the kitchen sink just long enough for the metal to expand a little?