Let’s All Scream Now: Rosemary and Lime Zest Sour Cream Ice Cream
Now that we no longer live three blocks from Pozzetto, we’ve been forced to improvise for our quotidian ice cream needs. Upon returning to the States I hit commercial gelato brands like Ciao Bella and...
View ArticleWhenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
I was saddened to hear about the death of Nora Ephron. I’ve never particularly liked her movies, which strike even this die-hard Woody Allen lover as too hopelessly bourgeois for comfort. But I do...
View ArticleClarence Eats Crustaceans, or, Lobsterfest 2012
I went to Boston this past spring because I had been listening to a lot of Joan Baez and going to Boston in the springtime seemed like the thing to do. No, actually I went to Boston to visit M and her...
View ArticleJuanita’s Banana Bread + A Small Tribute
Some dark clouds have gathered Chez Bear-Garden, as my amazing 95-year-old grandmother is in the process of passing away from this world to whatever lies on the other side. There aren’t really any...
View ArticleClarence Jumps for Joy: More Boston Feasts
When we weren’t eating the insects of the sea, we ate some other pretty terrific stuff during my brief sojourn in Boston. After a day of sightseeing and shopping on Newbury Street, M and I headed to...
View ArticleSymptoms that a Soviet Loves You
You arrive at her house for a visit, and a “casual lunch on the patio” consists of red caviar and blinchiki (Russian crêpes), festooned with sour cream and fresh dill. Oh, and a perfect salad of fresh...
View ArticleHayseed Enough for Small Town Living: Clarence Loves Michiana
Confronted with the possibility of another sweltering week without air conditioning in Bloomington, we gleefully packed up and headed north for a week to that hazy zone on the Indiana/Michigan border...
View ArticleObject Relations No. 5: Giardiniera
MC, a good friend from my time California, has relocated to Chicago for the past two years. Despite my best intentions, I hadn’t managed to spend any time with him despite our relative geographic...
View ArticleLet’s Give Monsieur Bigoudis Some Love, Plus Wim Wenders and Wax Food Replicas!
Are you guys still following Monsieur Bigoudis’ photos on flickr? Just because I fancy myself a decent photographer nowadays (snort) doesn’t mean that you still shouldn’t be looking at the real deal...
View ArticleBooze or Lose: Where to Drink in Bloomington
So the cat’s out of the bag: most of you know that I’ve spent the last eleven months or so in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University and a relatively high sleeve-to-man ratio compared to the...
View ArticleSapp Coffee House
When I was still living in the Midwest, I asked my friend M if there was anything he missed about living in Los Angeles. He suddenly got a far-away look in his eyes and quietly murmured, “The boat...
View ArticleDat Thanh
I recently met up with my friend K in the city of Westminster, where she had been storing her belongings for several years while she was living in Tokyo. Yes, I totally just said that as if that is a...
View ArticleBLT
I know there have been some crickets chirping around here lately, but I have a most excellent excuse this time: I finished my dissertation, filed it, and am now a doctor everywhere except on flight...
View ArticleNight Squirrel
K: Did you see the Eater article I posted about Jessica Koslow’s new dinnertime venture? Me: Totally. What are they going to call it? Night Squirrel? *** Here’s the Eater post:...
View ArticleCherry Bomb
If the slide into bourgeois bohemian middle age is signaled by weekly farmer’s market visits and excessive zeal for new kitchen gadgets, I am the avalanche. Unable to consume one more raw cherry and...
View ArticleYum Yum Cherriums
About nine months ago, we defected from our CSA subscription. Community supported agriculture is a really awesome way of buying produce if you don’t mind eating kohlrabi all the time. We unfortunately...
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