Natalie Dee (whose equally funny husband draws for the recently posted Toothpaste For Dinner) gives us a look into the state of fine dining with her latest drawing, "dumb fancy restaurants." It's disturbing perhaps, but I wouldn't be surprised if these dishes already existed....
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I think our Serious Eatin' overlord, Ed Levine, may be too embarrassed to post this, so I will. Last Friday, just as we were packing up and about to leave the office for the weekend, a messenger arrived with a delivery for Ed. Prominently bearing the Sullivan Street Bakery logo, it was loaded with bread, a handful of Band-Aid strips, and a note: "Hope your thumb feels better," proving that its sender, Jim Lahey, is not only a whiz with bread but also has a good sense of humor....
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Humorist Brian Unger in his latest "Unger Report" on NPR: "While we're sticking up for the eaten, let us not forget the eaters in this new era of the cruelty-free restaurant.... Restaurants should cease killing lobsters by cutting them in half while they are still alive. But that lobster should be served while the customer is still alive. If food takes longer to arrive than the Iraq war to end, that's inhumane....
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The original idea was to make croissants, but that would've been too time consuming. Croissants require lots of resting. I didn't want to spend 36 hours making pastry, so I made a squirrel cake instead.
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