27 Nov 2015
by scolgin
in Humor, Observations
Tags: Fanny Bay oysters, food, humor, Mexico, oysters, San Francisco, Thanksgiving
I was sitting in the dentist chair a few mornings ago, trying to find my Zen place as the hygienist plunged Medieval devices of torture into my mouth. I was feeling thankful that I only had to do this twice a year. Although these days, all things in the world considered, there are a lot of worse places I could be.
Saltimbocca-style turkey
“Maybe if you re-branded teeth cleaning as a kind of ‘spa day’ for your mouth,” I said to the dentist, “people would be less apprehensive about it. You could call it a ‘denticure’.”
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17 Jul 2015
by scolgin
in Humor, Observations, Starlets, Video
Tags: Adirondacks, Ben & Jerry's, Bethel, food, Great Lodges, humor, Middlebury, New England, Sagamore, Vermont
I’m always intrigued when I travel by the different names people in the different regions use for the same things. In Ireland, for example, they call gravel along the road “loose chippings”.
In the Northeast, we discovered that the bumpy line in the middle of the road is called a “rumblestrip”, what appears for all practical purposes to the Californian eye to be a lake is actually called a “pond,” and a small structure for camping is called a “lean to.”
Sagamore
All the large lakeside houses in the Adirondacks are called “camps”. We arrived at Big Wolf and followed the big directional sign pointing the way to the thirty or so camps on the lake. Pulling into the Buck Summerhill Camp, we were still puzzled. It looked to us a like a house.
“Why is it called a ‘camp’?” we asked. More
11 Jun 2015
by scolgin
in Observations, Pork, Recipes
Tags: antojitos, Au Pied De Cochon, birria, Ferran Adria, foie gras, Mercado de la Merced, Mexico City, Montreal, Nobu Matsuhisa, tacos
I was up in the street the other day chatting with Max Waterman, son of our neighbors Chris and Glennis. Max is a food-loving chap — he spent time working on a graduate degree in London, where he hosted dinners and sussed out the best street foods, watering holes and gastronomic destinations.
Watermen and their margaritas
He was now on summer break from Berkeley and his further educational pursuits, Chris and Glennis would be temporarily relocating to New Orleans soon, and it would be one of our last opportunities to get together. I suggested margaritas at our house. For food, I would serve a handful of antojitos — the Mexican equivalent of tapas: small bites and street foods. More
15 May 2015
by scolgin
in Observations, Starlets
Tags: food, humor, Larry Ellison, Malibu, Matsuhisa, Nikita, Nobu, Robert De Niro
We live next to Malibu, and between my son’s involvement in Malibu Little League, going to the beach and visiting various friends, we spend a fair amount of time there.
Flynn scores!
It used to be you couldn’t get anything decent to eat in the town, which was strange given its demographics. And then, 15 or 20 years ago, Nobu Matsuhisa moved in with his second restaurant after his flagship “Matsuhisa” on La Cienega. More
23 Jan 2015
by scolgin
in Observations, On the Road
Tags: beer, food, humor, Japanese cooking, matsutake, mycology, Sonoma, tempura, wild mushrooms
Fungi is a fickle kingdom. Predicting where and when a particular mushroom will grow is like betting on the stock market.
Willa with amanita coccora — the only edible mushroom in a family of deadly beauties
Some mushrooms appear only in years with late soaking rain, others only when there is an early rain followed by a dry spell followed by another rain. Some mushrooms only grow where there is something dead under the dirt, while others cannibalize nearby poisonous mushrooms, transforming them into prized edibles. More
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