Food

They’re up on Flickr: Amsterdam July 08. Once I sifted out all the photos of restaurant menus and museum opening times, alas, there was not a lot left. But enough to show some of the city’s finer points…even if I had to be locked in to get the shot.

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I feel incredible smugness at the moment for getting my blog all transferred and working again…as long as I blot out the parts where I totally fucked it up and made the job a thousand times harder than it had to be. I guess we cause problems just to solve them…
The most aggravating part [...]

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Good news: After more than six months of quiet, comments are restored! Hooray! Let the interacting begin again!
Bad news: I am so. filled. with. rage. at Yahoo, after I pestered their support repeatedly about the comments problem, after which someone finally admitted it was their fault, and the support staff was “trying its [...]

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Even two weeks after my guidebook marathon, my brain feels like a little sponge that has been wrung out completely dry. I can barely form sentences.
While I continue to recover from my writing trauma, please take these entertaining diversions under consideration:
Frappe Nation: Summer is the season for frappe, the best iced-coffee treatment ever. Unfortunately, [...]

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The Onion strikes again, with the news that there’s a terrible mayonnaise-borne viral outbreak!
How is its food coverage so trenchant? I particularly like the quote, “I don’t want a dry sandwich. That’s no way to eat.”

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We just had a four-alarm moment down in the kitchen: no butter! Fortunately, I’d already buttered our toast, but Peter was wanting more…
I think this is the best evidence of how I’ve really had to shove everything aside to get this guidebook finished. I can’t think of another time in…my whole life?…that I’ve run [...]

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Even though this web page is one of the most frightening on the whole Internet, I’m still putting FEBO in the guidebook.
That web page may depict FEBO’s shocking catalog of deep-fried morsels, which make me both recoil in horror and gawp in fascination (what is frikadel?!). But FEBO is a Dutch cultural institution! And [...]

Finally ate at Sripraphai again, so I could make, whoo-ee, the third post ever on my biting-off-more-than-I-can-chew Sripraphai Database project.
I think maybe the Sripraphai Database should be a wiki. It needs more mouths than I can provide.

Oh, Onion, stop! I can’t breathe, I’m laughing so hard!
Chef Cooks Dream Omelet seems innocuous enough…until you get more of the details of the dream. The reference to teeth falling out is especially resonant.
Later today I’m doing a little cooking demo for our CSA. I’m very, very tempted to take it in this direction.

Oh, you clever Onion, confirming everything I know to be true: Domino’s Scientists Test Limits of Human Consumption.
I don’t know why the image of a pizza covered with miniature hamburgers makes me laugh out loud, but there it is.

My friend Jim is in Argentina. I imagine I will get to Argentina around the time it ceases completely to be cool. Same goes for Berlin.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying Jim’s blog he’s writing with his boyfriend, Apio y Albahaca, and one post in particular is killing me: Food = Love. “Food = Love” [...]

Maybe a little premature, since I don’t leave till Friday a.m., but barring disaster (cue ominous music), here’s a handy summary:
Number of days in Amsterdam: 30
Number of days riding bicycle: 30
Number of times I encountered a car blocking the bike path: 3 (in NYC, it’s at least 3X/day)
Number of times I clumsily got on or [...]

It was a good day browsing. I found:
Vegetarian Duck, by Mark Morse, who lives in Amsterdam and happens to be writing about not only the kind of food I like to eat when I go out (and would like to add more of to the guide I’m working on), but also what I’d like to [...]