What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends. – James Joyce Dublin is a literary town. Bookstores, libraries, literary museums and tour, pubs where famous authors hung out, Dublin has them in spades. The city has contributed four Nobel laureates in literature … More An unlikely story (or what to read, see, eat and drink in Dublin)
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. – Thomas Keller Taking a page from Reid’s post last week about British Fare and the differences we found regarding variety, availability and names, I thought I’d share a gallery of some of the food we made at home and ate … More Gallery: Food from our time in Liverpool
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. – French President Jacques Chirac The best part about British cuisine are the names. While Italians love their women with pasta alla Norma, pizza Margherita and the indelicately named pasta puttanesca, France offers less appetizing fare that sounds like rat patootie (ratatouille), Coke in a van … More The Great British Marketing Scheme
“You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not pizza.” – Anonymous Pizza on Friday night has been a tradition in Reid’s family since she was a little girl. We’ve carried it on every Friday night since we got married. That’s almost 30 years now… The only break we had was during the eighteen months we were … More Gallery: Friday Night Pizza Night
Tradition, tradition! – Fiddler on the Roof Robie and I don’t have many traditions. We don’t have annual Christmas rituals (though we do have a handful of must-watch Christmas movies that include Die Hard, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Trading Places). We don’t cook a roast lamb recipe passed down through generations at Easter. … More For us Friday night means only one thing
So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food and drink beer and make friends? That’s the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we’ll come out of it all right. – Supreme Court Judge Sandra Day O’Connor Interior décor at Los Magueys in Inverness, FL … More One Bite riff II: A tour of Mexican restaurants across the American South, con’t.
Mexican [food] is perhaps the most misunderstood cuisine on Earth. – Anthony Bourdain Spinach quesadillas at Manny’s Uptown Beef fajita nachos at Mi Cocina [Warning: this post may induce cravings for Mexican food and/or TexMex.] After cheese, Robie and I believe Mexican cuisine and TexMex are the two most important food groups on the pyramid. … More One Bite riff: A tour of Mexican restaurants across the American South
Reid & Robie 