Links to the restaurants I talk about below:
Vibrato
West
Michael’s
Dukes
Chez Mimi
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On the rare occasions my wife Deborah and I have a date — with four kids between the ages of nine and thirteen, we’re lucky to get out once every three or four months — we tend to go places that we know will be good. If [...]
I’ve known about the POTMC (Pie of the Month Club) for at least a year or two. But I put off joining figuring I’d get to it someday (like writing that new show). Then the POTMC web site went down for awhile, and it appeared that the club had gone belly up. I felt terrible [...]
A friend sent me a copy of “Northwest (Mo.) Passage,” a travel article from the Sept. 9 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The article includes two references to good pie, one substantiated:
…Ma and Pa’s Kettle at Cameron…had 15 kinds of pie, plus strawberry shortcake. Sandy, the waitress, recommended the caramel applenut. My slice had [...]
From a 1907 Sunkist advertising poem (via California’s Los Citrus Groves):
…If long life you would be having,
Knowing naught of human ills,
Daily eat at least one orange,
Brought from California’s groves.
So what we really needed all along was an orange a day to maintain distance from our physicians.
But it did get me curious about the origins [...]
If you truly mean to dedicate yourself to a life of procrastination, you must develop fetishes. These will consume lots of time while making you feel like you’re doing something constructive.
One of my fetishes is, of course, pie. I just started re-reading Pascale Le Draoulec’s transcendant American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America’s [...]
“we commenced wrighting &c.” — so wrote Captain Clark on September 26, 1806, marking the end of one leg of his journey and the beginning of another. I hope to officially begin wrighting on the 201st anniversary of Clark’s start.
In the mean time, as I studiously avoid putting pen to paper to work on [...]
