Tag: quip

You can’t take it with you

By contrast with DiFara's, a much more sociable meal occurred last week--and by "sociable," I mean there was lots of booze involved. Peter and I finally went to Spice Market.

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Condimental

How can I come back from Mexico, to what is basically an empty fridge, and still have a hard time tossing something on the top shelf?

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If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Overdoing, or It Takes a Village to Roast a Pig (and a Lamb)

Who knew roasting a whole pig--plus a whole lamb, just for the heck of it--could be so easy? Well, aside from the creeping anxiety of spectacular failure beforehand, and the running around collecting weird bits of metal, and the blinding, acrid mesquite smoke the night of...it was pretty easy.

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