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  • Plastic Pork Shoulder

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    Plastic Pork Shoulder

    Dear Suzanne Goin, I love you and your book Sunday Suppers at Lucques. It’s the book I go to when I want to dazzle, when I want to blow my guests out of the water. On Friday, my guest would be none other than Lauren, a great friend and former roommate who was there at…

  • Lolita’s Bed

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    Before we begin this week’s posts, Lolita would like to express her enthusiasm for her new bed. Lolita wishes all of you a happy work week.

  • Fried Chicken & Collard Greens

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    The plan was for my usual roast chicken (which, by the way, you should only salt until it has a light coating: those who said it was too salty took my recipe too literally!) but then, as I was standing there in the grocery store, I spotted collard greens. “My, my,” I said to myself…

  • What’s your favorite cold weather food?

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    Tonight I made my standard tomato sauce (see book, Chapter One) except with some tweaks: I skipped the carrot, skipped the thyme. And since it’s getting cold out, I started out with bacon and made a kind of

  • Bagelworks, Boca Raton

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    Bagelworks, Boca Raton

    Comfort of comforts–the white fluorescent lights, the angry senior citizens shoving in line–is there a taste more sweet than the taste of a Bagelworks bagel, shmeared with lox spread and whitefish salad, topped with sliced tomato and onion and washed down with a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice? Welcome to Bagelworks in Boca Raton,…

  • Single Occupancy Restaurant Bathroom Pet Peeves #1 & #2

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    #1: You are in a single-occupancy bathroom and you lock the door. You begin to do your business and someone comes along and jiggles the handle. This someone–we’ll use the name Hank–doesn’t stop there. Even though Hank can tell that the door is locked, he must persist. He jiggles harder, he shakes the door, he…

  • Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

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    Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

    Are you sick of Thanksgiving yet? You should be! For the past few weeks, every website, every magazine, every food guru has been espousing the merits of dressing vs. stuffing, cajoling you to make your own cranberry sauce and badgering you to brine your turkey. Now that the big day is over, Thanksgiving Talk is…

  • Live Thanksgiving Broadcast #2

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    [Note: After posting this, I figure you may want some explanation as to who everyone is: are you ready? First you’ll see my mom and dad, then you’ll see the Johnson family–that’s my brother’s girlfriend Tali’s family–her father, Craig, her sister Mia and poking around there my grandmother (my mom’s mom); in the next room…

  • Live Thanksgiving Broadcast #1

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    Thanksgiving; 12:29 PM. (Recorded at 11:33) https://youtu.be/FEeHgREiTzQ

  • Thanksgiving Status Report

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    Thanksgiving Status Report

    I’m not sure what I’m more stressed about: cooking this dinner for sixteen people or writing this post! There’s a lot to talk about so I’m just going to shoot this out like an email and hope for the best… are you ready? Here we go…