Archive for November, 2006
Egg nog a capella
Weird capitalist Christmas: I don’t know why the local Key Food supermarket has 6 different brands of egg nog. They only carry 3 different brands of milk, so that doesn’t make sense. Three of them are pictured in the flickr bar above. I bought the Lactaid version, and it wasn’t bad at all, and no [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Post-Thanksgiving
Let the holiday madness begin.
Saw Casino Royale on Thanksgiving Day - quite a movie. Plot was… well, it’s a Bond movie; plot doesn’t get in the way of making a visual movie. But, there is more of a plot than there has been in a while - bad banker takes money of terrorists [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Various things of thanks
Monday P- took me to Lupa, Mario Batali’s Roman themed restaurant, for my birthday. We ordered the antipasti, which were Batali’s homemade sliced meats, as well as an array of seafood salads. They were wonderful - it’s one thing to have things like sardines from a can, and a whole other thing when they are [...]
Posted: November 24th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Thanksgiving Day Eve
Brooklyn law profs talking about Domino’s Brooklyn-style pizza - may or may not be something that ought to be regulated (kind of like how in France, Champagne is only the stuff made in the Champagne region; anything else is sparkling wine). At the least I would agree with the profs: the ads for the [...]
Posted: November 22nd, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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On old menus
Digging menus out of some of the old boxes… 2 cool spots -
The Crab Pot, Pier 57, Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA - SeaFeasts — Yum!
Hon’s Wu-Tun House, 108-268 Keefer St. Vancouver, BC - good wontons and dumplings.
More feasting tomorrow…..
Posted: November 22nd, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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