Oh I wish that I was blogging about eating at El Bulli rather than just watching documentaries about it but since Chef Ferran has now closed its doors for good it’s all we got. For our first dose of El Bulli Alex and I watched the documentary ‘El Bulli – Cooking in Progress’ which followed [...]
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A double serving of El Bulli
Posted: 08/04/2011 in food, television, UncategorizedTags: anthony bourdain, chef ferran, cooking in progress, el bulli, gastro-porn, molecular gastronomy, No Reservations, spin rite
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Disappointing TV
Posted: 06/24/2011 in UncategorizedTags: AMC, battlestar galactica, Curtis Stone, jonathan waxman, netflix, The Killing, Top Chef Masters, Treme
The Killing I haven’t seen the original Danish series that AMC’s The Killing is based on but given the amount of buzz it got when it aired in the UK earlier this year I am guessing it’s better than the lackluster adaptation that just finished airing over here. I’m holding out ordering it from Amazon.co.uk [...]
Monarch of the Glen
Posted: 03/20/2011 in television, UncategorizedTags: british tv series, hamish macbeth, Monarch of the Glen, robert carlyle, Scotland, television
Last week I was searching for something light and fluffy to watch to help me unwind after a hard day of trying to understand silver epic (my current bete noir) and I stumbled upon Monarch of the Glen on Netflix Instant – perfect. Though if I am honest I much prefer Hamish Macbeth to MotG [...]
The Chelsea Bun Project
Posted: 12/07/2010 in baking, UncategorizedTags: baking, chelsea buns, fitzbillies, let her bake cake
When I was in the UK in October I took a trip to Cambridge with my Mum, and we had tea at Fitzbillies. Fitzbillies is famous for its Chelsea buns, and I can confirm that they are amazing. Just as an aside a Chelsea bun is similar to a cinnamon bun but less cinnamony and [...]
Do TV Shows Need Term Limits?
Posted: 11/25/2010 in television, UncategorizedTags: dylan baker, Fringe, house, john noble, The Good Wife, walternate
Last week it was announced that Fringe is moving to Friday night, and the Twitterverse let out a collective groan as it is where good TV shows go to die. Fringe is in it’s third season, we are only now really digging into the whole parallel universe thing and finding out just how truly evil [...]
Overheard in Starbucks
Posted: 08/31/2010 in UncategorizedTags: new york, nyc, overheard, Starbucks, tourists
There are two things I need to clarify before I launch into this anecdote. Firstly, I am not a bad person I probably should have interjected into the conversation but there is something about indignant tourists that rile me. You know the type – the ones that take it as a personal insult that things [...]
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Posted: 06/08/2010 in books, UncategorizedTags: Australian fiction, books, christos tsiolkas, fiction, the slap
This is an amazing book – raw and unnerving. The story centers on the consequences of a non-family member slapping a misbehaving child at a barbecue in suburban Melbourne. How the reverberations can be felt not only by those directly involved but by everyone in their social sphere. Sides are taken. New alliances against old. [...]
My mum is currently on a walking tour in Tuscany. I am sure she is having an amazing time, and will come back with lots of tales of heatstroke and blisters. But, I can’t wait until she reconnects with the internet. I am missing her daily emails and IMs, and being able to duck into [...]
Decisions Decisions
Posted: 05/26/2010 in Navel gazing, UncategorizedTags: american natural history museum, hayden planetarium, summer, world science festival
I am in the midst of trying to figure lots of little things out. For instance, I am sorely tempted to sign up for a Greek tragedy course at The New School’s Summer Continuing Ed program. It should fill in the blanks for my Greek Drama course that I ended up doing an 11th hour [...]
