In honor of the Caesar Hotel, where the Caesar salad was invented, which died today…
With its ornate facade (what is this style called?), and a sort of museum to trajes de luces,—which translates “suits of lights,” the shimmering, adorned outfits that bullfighters wear—in the lobby, the Hotel Caesars somehow managed to be, to the end, [...]
I have a running joke with myself about my Japanese friends, that you need an instruction booklet to be friends with them—and the same thinking applies to Japanese cuisine. I suppose one can enjoy Japanese food even without such a manual. For years I lived a life of sushi where I considered eel rolls and [...]
I am on deadline + doing my taxes so no time to go into it right now, but… did Sherry Virbila really describe the shade of an olive as being the color of a felt puppet frog in her review of Pizzeria Ortica in today’s L.A. Times? I’ve long thought she and her old school-style [...]
“The problem with humor is that there is always some truth it it,” my friend Rett told me last night. We were at a party hosted by DailyCandy, the web-zine phenom that helped define the potential of online media, a party Rett described as being of an era that no longer exists—an era of Big [...]
My friend Andrea emailed me today. Andrea knows a lot about food, so I am always flattered when she assumes I might know more than her and asks me about something. Today she asked me where she could get a good ham.
At first i was stumped, and as I wrote to her: Don’t you hate [...]
