Salt, the new olive oil?
The New York Times puffs specialty salts as the major new secret ingredient of chefs in the know. What a bunch of hooey. Everyone knows salt is where it’s at. Even a simple home cook like me has four different kinds of salt in the kitchen—regular Morton’s table salt and kosher salt for dishes I [...]
Improvisation: Spring farfalle with ham, peas, and asparagus
Tonight (the second night after our dogs’ spaying and neutering) neither of us wanted to cook much. On the other hand, there were the remains of an eight-pound ham shank in the fridge, calling out to have something done with it. Something had to be done.
Lisa went to the store and came back with farfalle [...]
Myst-style UVA walkaround
Forgot to point to this one. The first Google result for “west lawn” site:virginia.edu leads into a fascinating set of photos by Joel Winstead around University of Virginia and William and Mary landmarks. The cool bit is the Myst-style navigation (e.g. click on the left side of the photo to turn left, click on the [...]
Quick music notes
I didn’t point to this year’s Pazz’n’Jop awards when they were published, but thought I should at least give a shout out to fellow ’Hoo Joe Gross, whose ballot is not disharmonious with my Best Of 2003 list.
Wanna get a Cease and Desist letter from EMI? Publishing a link to the Grey Album is probably [...]
