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Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | yesterday
Although I regretted missing out regular Thanksgiving meal with the superb hosting of regular readers MJD and JRD, we for the first time hosted Thanksgiving for my girlfriend's family. My feelings on turkey having long been on the record we weren't going to put a lot of weight on traditional Thanksgiving cusine, so instead: Beef Wellington with red wine reduction [or: vegetarian Wellington] Mushroom...
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Serious Eats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Note: The Burger Lab writer J. Kenji Lopez-Alt weighs in this week with his 5 favorite burgers in Boston. "Anyone who doesn't think that their home town has the best hamburger place in the world is a sissy."—Calvin Trillin [Photographs:...
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Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Since Thanksgiving Eve can be fraught with stress, here are ten links to keep you in good spirits. From Coolio to Tofurky soda to Calvin Trillin's fight for spaghetti carbonara to replace turkey, we bring you some Thanksgiving giggles. Photo of the Day: Turkey Cakes: Like real turkeys, turkey cakes also give you the option of white and dark "meat." Video: Coolio Makes Deep-Fried Turkey: What...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In spite of the last election reassuring me that this up over personality was out of our serious new lives forever, I have been unable to avoid Sarah Palin over the past few days.
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Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In a New Yorker podcast, Calvin Trillin says: I live in Nova Scotia in the summer. And I hear a lot of talk about how Newfoundlanders eat mainly pork scrap. Hey, that’s what I eat: pork scrap. (And fermented food.) Pork scrap (large pieces of pork belly, actually) is absurdly cheap: $1/pound or less.
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Quebec’s slow but steady cultural takeover of Manhattan nears completion. The New Yorker this week devotes four pages to poutine, but for evidence of the full colonization, listen to Calvin Trillin’s podcast in which he and an editor eat poutine and talk about Canada at a restaurant in the LES. It’s almost like we’re a [...]
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World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The new issue has a definite global bent, with stories on China’s burgeoning wine culture, spending Thanksgiving abroad and more. Most of the stories aren’t accessible online for non-subscribers, but John Colapinto’s ride-along with a Michelin restaurant inspector is available in full. There’s also a podcast to accompany Calvin Trillin’s “kamikaze” poutine...
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The Epi-Log (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Eater noticed that Epicurious was among the sites featured in a new compilation of best food writing. We are pleased to confirm that Raphael Kadushin's post about "The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie I've Ever Had" appears in the Best Food Writing 2009 (Da Capo Books). Other notable contributor to the book include: Calvin Trillin in The New Yorker Julia Moskin, Kim Severson, Pete Wells, and Frank...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The New Yorker's annual food issue hits shelves today (we'll feel lucky if we get ours in the mail before Thursday). Articles include Calvin Trillin on Candians' beloved poutine , a peek inside flavor labs, Adam Gopnik on cookbooks , and John Colapinto’s " exclusive" look at the rating process of the New York Michelin guide . Apparently this is "the first time in its history"...
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Eater SF (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Today marks the release of the annual food issue of The New Yorker. As usual, the table of contents includes myriad food-related pieces, highlighted by Calvin Trillin's take on Canada's national dish, poutine (audio here), Adam Gopnik's musing on cookbooks...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Newsweek senior editor Jerry Adler on Thursday posted a bizarre poem on the publication’s website, mocking Lou Dobbs for leaving CNN and insinuating that the cable anchor might be crazy: "So wily Lou has picked the locks That kept him in his padded box And tiptoed off, in just his socks." [Punctuation original to the poem.] Adler, whose poem reads like a cross between Dr. Seuss and...
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kitchen table math, the sequel (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Calvin Trillin: “The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.” He took a sip of his martini, and stared straight at the row of bottles behind the bar, as if the conversation was now over. “But weren’t there smart guys on Wall Street in the first place?” I asked. He looked at me the way a mathematics...
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Montclair Socioblog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
November 3, 2009 Posted by Jay Livingston “The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.” Calvin Trillin in an op-ed in the Times a couple of weeks ago , supposedly quoting some guy he meets in a bar. But Trillin was writing as a humorist, not a reporter (he does both very well), and I strongly suspect that his informant...
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