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Fried goat and discomfort 5 Jun 2013 | 11:32 pm
I am just back from Addis Ababa. It is big and sprawling and amazing and smoggy and fascinating and filled with traffic and rubble and green and yellow painted corrugated tin construction fences. Food...
Snails as escargots 23 Apr 2013 | 10:54 pm
“Not bad,” I said twenty-five years ago after choking down the chewy, gray nugget with a smile on my face. “They are super, aren’t they?” my Dijonnais host father asked, full of enthusiasm, as he alwa...
Un petit gateau 14 Mar 2013 | 09:15 pm
If you’re a food writer and you go to Paris, people are going to ask you about what you ate. Or, to be more specific, a remarkable number of people will ask “What was the best thing you ate?” It will ...
Krabbe & kransekake 27 Dec 2012 | 11:19 pm
If K’s are funny, Norwegian is hilarious. In all seriousness, it’s been a month of crab and kransekake. Crab because I wrote a story about going crabbing for Edible San Francisco, so I had to go crabb...
New world 6 Nov 2012 | 10:11 pm
When I opened my eyes on Sunday morning there were snow flakes floating past the window. I lay in bed, trying to savor the extra hour at my disposal as much as I had savored the craft beers and fine c...
Ultimate Oyster 24 Oct 2012 | 11:51 pm
I’ve eaten dozens and scores of oysters on the half shell over the decades, once carrying a cooler full of them back to Minneapolis for Christmas when one could still carry a cooler full of oysters on...
Well stocked 8 Sep 2012 | 10:06 pm
We are well stocked. At least when it comes to tomatoes. At least for the moment. Over 100 pounds of ripe San Marzanos and dry-farmed Early Girls have passed into my kitchen and been forwarded into ja...
Shenanigans 28 Jun 2012 | 01:16 am
Spring never slowed down. At all. If anything, it ramped up and yelled in my face for weeks on end. Most of what I was doing was not, honestly, all that interesting. But there were a few exceptions. I...
Dancing baby abalone 7 Apr 2012 | 04:08 am
Warning: this video of a young abalone (1-2 years old) dancing in my hand may tempt you to acquire an abalone as a pet. I cannot recommend this path. Sure, they’re cute now, but after years of chang...
The Well 30 Mar 2012 | 11:27 am
This is where William Randolph Hearst stored many of his treasures while his castle on the hill was being built. It looks onto the Pacific Ocean, waves lapping on the beach just feet from its doors, a...
