April 2008

On the Menu at Winslow Place

by zora on April 29, 2008

Three recipes under consideration here at Roving Gastronome HQ, aka Winslow Place, aka the Astoria Museum of Obsolete Technology, aka David Bowie Fan Club, Queens Branch: 1) Six-Minute Chocolate Cake Under consideration? Hell, I’m eating it right now! It’s from the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home book, and I’m sure I’ve praised it before. It [...]

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NM photos are up

by zora on April 28, 2008

Not a lot of them, but there is a picture of that weird dead animal I saw in Madrid: New Mexico April 08 photo set at Flickr.

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Lonely Planet Egypt…Almost Here!

by zora on April 23, 2008

The fruits of last year’s labor, in the form of Lonely Planet’s Egypt guide, is due on store shelves in a couple of weeks. And while you’re waiting for my masterpiece to arrive, the savvy folks at Lonely Planet have made the full text of the book available in PDF, through its clever “Pick & [...]

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Robert Reid on Kohnstamm

by zora on April 22, 2008

Just a little more light shed on the whole Kohnstamm business: a good essay on World Hum by the always smart Robert Reid, who I also happen to know in passing through LP and other friends. He has the empathy for Kohnstamm that most don’t (or aren’t willing to have), and he summarizes the small [...]

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