Edibles: 'Speaking' Italian
Almost as interesting as "Italian For Beginners" --- mangia!
Almost as interesting as "Italian For Beginners" --- mangia!
These are all great! I always liked the scene in "The Godfather" where Clemenza teaches them how to cook. Oh, I would love to have that recipe!
Menudo is the breakfast of champions. With a Dos Equis chaser.
Thank you, Eaterreader, I was just about to say something about that issue myself. Couldn't have said it better.
What a beautiful tribute! Thank you for letting all of us know how much Johnny Apple meant to you personally.
Tequila shots for everyone! Vamanos! Muy buena suerte!
Congratulations! Sounds like fun is in store for all. Buena suerte a todos!
From La Vida Dulce
Happy Thanksgiving to you Ed! Have a great weekend and I look forward to hearing all about your dinner!
Ciao, Christine
La Vida Dulce
I have found Balthazar's baguette to be maddeningly inconsistent: good some days, bad on others. I'm beginning to think there is a limit to how good a mass-produced baguette can be.
i agree with Linda. I just tried Balthazar's baguette and it was NOT good.
Highly disappointing, in fact.
A dinner scene that is memorable for being cringe-worthy and hilarious (rather than delicious) is the one in "The Birdcage," when the hosts are desperately trying to cover up the homoerotic images on their china and the fact that "Mother Coleman" is actually a man (while she charms the pants off the conservative senator).
La Vie Boheme from the movie Rent. No food is really eaten but they order it and its amazing.
Monty Python The Meaning of Life when the fat guy explodes after his after-dinner mint!
I was ready for the usual "mock Italians, it's fun" way, but what can I say: everything it's absolutely true... We use all those expressions...
:-DDD
By that measure, in my experience -- and I've followed his taste recommendations in both New York and San Francisco, in high-end restaurants as well as holes-in-the-wall -- the best food writer I know of is Ed Levine.
Glad to hear someone ackowledge that reviewing food is something that should be accible to the other 95% of restaurant goers, not just those who like to feel superior. A review of a meal that only 5% of your viewers would ever consider eating is just forgetting your audience or perhaps just appeasing yourself over them. Reviewing food in your mind is for the chef, reviewing it in your words is for readers.
How about that dinner in Soylent Green where they find some real wine and meat? No. 1 for me is Babette's Feast though.
Although it really dates me, I have to go with "Tom Jones".
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