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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Rhymes with Fortune

I stuck my thumb in a rotten orange today. I was in line at the register, waiting to buy a rare healthy snack, unconsciously using the fruit as Nature’s stressball, when my thumb found a perfectly thumb-sized patch of rot and submerged. I was offended: I had purposefully selected that orange as the

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Happy Labour Day, eh!

Shh, I think I hear something. It… it sounds like distant fizzing and the faint jostling of aluminum. Why, it’s the sound of a billion cans of beer carbonating in anticipation of the three day weekend! Woooo!!! Barbecues! Beer! Wooo! Why? I don’t care! Beer! I didn’t realize we were due for a holid

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

The Final Countdown

I am about to head out for a mid-day trip to Broadway Panhandler N.Y. Cake for the last of the wedding cake supplies. I will have the following nearly nonsensical shopping list on my person: I drew this up last night with a glass of prosecco in one hand. From this point forward you can expect 4 [...

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Umami? Ay mami

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter… I’m sure you’re wondering what the roadmap of my typical workday mood decline has to do with food. Incidentally, these are also the names of the flavors most familiar to Western palates. But as is the case in so many instances, Eastern civilizations have had knowledge of

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

On being broke and eating well

Brokeness (n.): A state in which one must scrape money together for the barest of necessities and anything decadent seems a cruel joke. – My definition, anyway It happens to most of us at some time or another – we’re fortunate if it’s fleeting - and there is no shame in honest poverty. So why should

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Review: Locanda Vini e Olii

Locanda Vini e Olii opened in 2001 and has been widely reviewed and visited by all manner of intrepid eaters. I am not exactly clearing away underbrush with my gastronomical machete here, but last night I visited the Clinton Hill Tuscan restaurant for the first time and I’ll be damned if I’m not goi

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

A Nose for Drama

Poised on steady legs First your poet begs Several eggs. Froth them to a mousse, And then introduce Lemon juice. Shimmering like silk, Aromatic milk Of almonds will come next, and next prepare Pastry light as air To coat with care Each pretty pastry mould. Which sweetly will enfold The liquid gold.

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Barack Obama, our nation’s 44th president, turns 48 today. Happy Birthday, Barack! Mr. President, I haven’t known you for that long, but I am SO glad we ‘met’. You’ve quickly became one of my favorite people ever and I look forward to the year ahead and all of our wonderful adventu-… What? I’m sorry

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Coming Soon: Reviews and Ratings

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. – Lucretius Take acorns, for example. Native Americans learned to leach caustic tannins from the nuts so that they could be used harmlessly in cooking, whereas a more impatient/whiter person might have gulped down an oak nut and suffered vomiting (am

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Water, Butter, Wine · 2Y ago

Cut the crêpes

If you haven’t added yet added crêpes to your repertoire, carpe diem already. Crêpes have been around for hundreds of years. Originating in the Brittany region of France, the word crêpe derives from the Latin “crispus” meaning crisp. These days, crêpes are considered a national food in France and th

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