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Here is the list of courses from our dinner on Tuesday night at Momfuku Ko. We did the best we could trying to reconstruct the menu from memory later that evening:
buttered biscuit with black pepper and miring glaze. chicarone with
togarashi. lobster and turnip cake over black garlic puree with meyer
lemon. deep fried curried lamb [...]

Max and I just returned from a short but sweet few days in and around Traverse City, Michigan, where he did a couple of Freshman in the Kitchen events. On the drive up, I noticed signs for at least three Michigan counties named after Irish ones–Roscommon, Wexford, and Antrim–which made me smile.
On Thursday evening, [...]

LAist.com has just published my friend Eli’s interview with chef and Ford’s Filling Station owner Ben Ford. Read the article here, and then go to the website to leave comments so Eli can make this a regular thing:
Ben Ford, head chef and owner of Culver City’s Ford’s Filling Station speaks of the farmer’s market [...]

For the past few weeks, I have been spending my Friday mornings around the corner at the Selma Café. “Selma” actually stands for the Soule-Eberwhite-Lutz-Madison-Affiliation, an Old West Side Ann Arbor neighborhood association, whose purpose is to “provide a forum for neighbors to come together and exchange information, ideas, goods, and services in order [...]

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At long last! Yesterday was the day for Max and Eli’s long-awaited appearance on The TODAY Show with Hoda and Kathi Lee to promote their new cookbook, Freshman in the Kitchen: From Clueless Cook to Creative Chef. They were fantastic! It [...]

I’ve just settled down for an afternoon of writing, after a day filled with walking in the sunshine and seeing old friends. I ran into John Roos at the farmers’ market and this small bag of deliciousness immediately caught my eye. Pure Kona coffee! I immediately put aside any plans to spend [...]

I was delighted to read the article “Belfast Dines Out on the Good Times” by Colman Andrews in this month’s edition of Gourmet magazine (which I believe may only be available in the print).  Luckily both Max and Eve have subscriptions or I may have missed it.
Unfortunately, my current favorite, Molly’s Yard, did not [...]

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…posting a link to this story on the bbc news website.  Apparently there is a pub in a town in the Greater Manchester area (that’s England, not Michigan!) that hosted the World Black Pudding Throwing Contest.  The purpose is to knock Yorkshire puddings (i.e., popovers) off a 20 foot ledge by throwing black puddings at [...]