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2013

  • The Rest of the Best of 2013

    The Rest of the Best of 2013

    Ok, I confess, I really enjoy writing these year-end posts. Yesterday, I continued the ritual of writing up all the books that I read in a given year; here are The Books That I Read in 2013. Now it’s time to dig into the rest of the best, posts that shined in specific ways (best…

  • The Top Ten Dishes That I Ate in 2013

    The Top Ten Dishes That I Ate in 2013

    The dish that you see above (Tiger Prawn Salami from Movida in Sydney, Australia) is not one of the Top Ten Dishes That I Ate in 2013. I put it there, though, to illustrate how well I ate this year and how difficult it was to narrow everything down to the ten best dishes. My…

  • The Top 10 Dishes That I Cooked in 2013

    The Top 10 Dishes That I Cooked in 2013

    My word, I cooked up a storm in 2013. Usually when I go through the process of choosing my best dishes of the year, the list pretty much writes itself. This year I struggled to put this in any kind of order; and when you see the dishes on my “Honorable Mentions” list you’re going…

  • My 2013 Holiday Gift Buying Guide

    My 2013 Holiday Gift Buying Guide

    Growing up, I never really made a Hanukkah list. My mom said to me early on, “We can get you one nice gift or eight crappy gifts,” so obviously I’d pick the nice gift and each year beg for something very specific, like a Nintendo or a Super Nintendo or a Nintendo Gameboy or basically…