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Dishwasher Salmon

The gauntlet has been thrown down by the WOW Report:  check out the begining of a (very funny) video about alternative cooking methods (among other things).

 

Here's a link to the real dishwasher salmon recipe pioneered by Bob Blumer, the Surreal Gourmet.

Eating and Drinking--Less [PHOTO UPDATE]

Restaurants in this town seem to be ubiquitous (and it's RESTAURANT WEEK, god help me) and they keep getting in the way of life with less food. If I could just stick with the Katzen/Willett diet I mentioned in a previous post, it just might work a little better for me.  The food's good, although like any vegetarian-based menu, it's almost deal-breakingly labor intensive. 

I'm more willing than the average cook (or mass murderer) to wield a really sharp knife just for kicks, but some nights the prospect of  chopping broccoli, onions, garlic, carrots, zucchini, scallions, parsley, cilantro and nuts for the main course and then turning around and toasting pine nuts, squeezing lemon juice, and mincing dill and chives for a whole grain side dish--but wait!  That doesn't include the recommended salad and gussied-up vegetable, now does it?  How about some broccoli soup or vegetable broth with corn, too?  It's a whole lot of great, filling food but occasionally (well, with more and more alarming frequency), it sends me fleeing, with my family handing me my car keys, to Su Casa, where we can order, eat, pay the check and leave, on a good night, in about twenty minutes (truly--I timed it once).  And Su Casa has margaritas--neither recommended by Katzen and Willett nor available at my house.

Da Lat

photograph of Da Lat, Vietnam by Tuey (Flickr)

I almost forgot, my review of Da Lat appears today in Style Weekly.  I also forgot to mention the best thing of all about this new Vietnemese restaurant--they deliver.

I started off my new diet with a lovely  . . . weekend in New York!

Not so much dieting as eating as much Asian and Spanish food as I could find when limited to a mere three meals a day.

I went up for The New Yorker Festival and this is where I wish I had another blog so that I had a place to dissect the  experience. But since here the focus is on food, let me merely say:  Oliver Sacks moved me to tears even as he inspired, British comedian Steve Coogan moved me to tears when I realized I was trapped in the middle of the row as he inarticulately and pompously rambled the audience into a fog of excruciating boredom, and New Yorker critics Anthony Lane (film) and Hilton Als (theater)--well, I didn't cry but I laughed throughout and realized that even with a graduate degree in English, I really need to do some more reading.

La Petite Fraude

Congratulations to my fearless fellow critic Don Baker for uncovering some highly dubious practices at the once venerable La Petite France.  Check out his electrifying review in this week's Style.