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This week in RG history

  • 2011
    • The First Queens Writers Fellow: Heather Hughes
  • 2010
    • Thailand, Digested: Top 5 Delights, Part 1
    • Thailand, Digested: Top 5 Delights, Part 2
    • Thailand, Digested: Top 5 Delights, Part 3
  • 2009
    • (Must've been a slow week...)
  • 2008
    • Alas, Too Late for Christmas...
    • Like I've Been Saying...
    • Panera Comes to Astoria
  • 2007
    • Pork Winter
    • Pork Inventory
  • 2006
    • Fun in Hospital, Part III: Luxe Life at UCSF!
  • 2005
    • Purslane redux Now that eGullet has reorganized, the links to the things I had published there are dead. So, a small attempt to salvage. And it's relevant to the sumac mention a couple of posts back--Lebanese fattoush isn't fattoush without sumac...and purslane.
    • Kabab Cafe, for old time's sake Same treatment with the ol' KC, reprinted from eGullet, plus more pics on the way. By the way, Ali is kicking ass these days. Sweetbreads, sardines, fantastic duck...
    • KC interior Wait, other people eat at this place too? That's Karine in the foreground.
  • 2004
    • Prune, Glorious Prune! Eating at Prune is kind of big deal, not just because it's sorta pricey, but also because it's like the boyfriend who dumped me before he even got to know me.
    • The World Needs to Know You can get a restaurant-quality flame on your home burner by using a very small drill bit to enlarge the hole the gas comes out of.
    • "Unscrew the nipple." So the heading is a shameless gambit to get you to read more from Peter on supercharging your stove (originally posted on Chowhound).

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