May 2004

When making ice cream it’s always good to keep in mind that the “batter” (if that’s what they call it) has to chill. So, for example, if you start your ice cream at 8:30 pm and the ice cream involves hot sticky caramel that needs to refrigerate to “cool,” don’t expect to be eating until…

Tonight we grieve for the end of one of our most sacred cultural institutions. Let this song provide comfort in our time of need:Click me to mourn with music.

This month’s Martha Stewart Living (May 2004) features, as usual, a Letter From Martha. Unlike Martha’s many other letters, this one actually keeps it real. No BS about gardening: Martha has made the brave (and committee-prodded, I’m sure) choice of addressing her legal woes. Let’s look closer, shall we?How can I thank you all–readers, advertisers,…

Here is my law school:Here is me handing in my last law school final EVER:[A woman standing nearby said: “Excuse me, I have to ask, what did you just take a picture of?” I responded: “I just handed in my last law school final ever. I had to have a picture.” “Of course,” she said…

Apparently we also made some Italian newspaper/website with pictures of girls in lingerie. Go down to the fourth paragraph, and put your mouse over “cucina e dintori”–that’s me. The site is called: L’Espresso. Can anyone translate?

Check us out in the St. Petersburg Times: Click me.

Life requires motivators. To get out of bed in the morning, we need incentive. “Ah yes,” we tell ourselves, “Neil Diamond tribute on Good Morning America. Must rise!”Consequently, great tasks require great motivators. “Climb Mount Everest? How can I?” said Sir Edmond Hillary to himself. And then he realized: “Oh yes! When I reach the…

Site reader and part-time Amateur Gourmet publicisit Vidiot has been hawking me for a while to go to Kool Korners on 14th Street for their Cuban Sandwich. “Go to Kool Korners on 14th street!” he will write. “Eat their cuban sandwich!”Today, my stomach and brain battled for control of the steering wheel as I figured…

This letter is to inform you that your Amateur Gourmet is in the process of completing his final final. This is a take home final in Jewish Law and requires great concentration and tsurris. What’s tsurris? That’s the fourth question on the test and I won’t get caught cheating. Suffice it to say, the test…

My favorite weekly columnist, hands down, is The Village Voice’s Michael Musto who, I sincerely believe, is deserving of a Pulitzer Prize for what he does with words. Just because he’s a gossip columnist doesn’t mean he’s not a genius! It brings to mind John Updike’s quote on Nabokov: “He writes prose the only way…