While My Sautoir Gently Sweats :

Oops, I've Seem to Have Forgotten to Blog

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Life threw up a plethora of challenges to keeping this here old blog alive and kicking this summer.  The biggest road block was that I was writing a lot at work.  After spending hours each day trying to find different ways of saying[...]

Is the Sandwich Ready for its Close Up?

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OK, turn a little to the right.  Could you reflect that light a little more to the left?  Hold it, hold it... Yes!, I got the shot.  What, is John going to bore us with some more fashion shots?  This is a food blog.  Oh,[...]

Hoboken Food Tour

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A class in studio lighting morphed into a class on fashion photography, so I channelled my inner Austin Powers and shot photos like this: I took advantage of my free time this weekend to examine my town more closely.   It is easy to[...]

It's Not a Party Till Someone Brings the Liquid Nitrogen

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Whew, it has been busy here the last week or so.  When it wasn't busy I was enjoying the wonderful weather outside on my terrace, grilling like a madman.  So I'm taking this respite before the day's ribathon commences to wrap up Aspen[...]

Aspen Food and Wine Festival: The Day Chef Nobu Blew Our Minds

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Day two promised to be a clone of day one.  Some demos, some slam dancing in the grand tasting tent,  a good dinner with good beverages.  No signs, omens or portends indicated the course the day would take.  A rapturous[...]

Aspen Food and Wine Festival: So it Begins

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I started the event out in an inauspicious way, waiting in the wrong line.  After correcting that minor error in judgement, due to a really bad night's sleep(or so I can keep telling myself), the event began in earnest.  the first demo[...]

Aspen Food and Wine Festival: The Prelude

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June in Aspen brings sun, wild flowers and most of the culinary world.  For the past 28 years people with a passion for cooking, wine making, food growing, or just eating and drinking have gathered in the rarified air of Aspen, CO.[...]

BBQ, Burgoo and Bliss

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One weekend a year, a change comes over Madison Square Park.  The question "What is that smell?" gets an answer you are delighted, not horrified, to hear.  The ubiquitous pale blue haze hanging invites a deep inhale,  not a call[...]

It's Been How Many Years Since I Graduated? Better Hand Me a Beer.

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Saturday I had to grapple with a difficult concept, it's been 25 years since I graduated college.  Stevens Institute of Technology having untold empathy for its alumni, scheduled both a wine tasting and a beer seminar for Alumni Weekend to[...]

Memorial Day

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Just a quick post to wish everyone a great Memorial Day.  Amidst the beer, burgers and barbecuing, just take a moment to reflect on the reason for the day. That being said, here's the first rib porn of the season: