Gastrolust

As we head into the voting season, coming up will be one of the most important and interesting votes: Best Loin Taste. One month from today, the lamb lies down, not on Broadway, but at the Bell Harbor Conference Center on the waterfront, for a lamb-tasting contest. Actually, not just one lamb, but many, as [...]

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Yes, I’ve been AWOL recently. I’m still eating…just not writing. Gastrolust headquarters moved this week, so it’s been a very hectic month. The new home looks like a hurricane hit it, as there’s a ton of unpacking and other work to do around here. I hope to get back to my routine soon. For now, [...]

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When cooking chicken soup with rice In July I’ll take a peep Into the cool and fishy deep Where chicken soup is selling cheap Selling once, selling twice Selling chicken soup with rice In August it will be so hot I will become a cooking pot Cooking soup of course—why not? Cooking once, cooking twice [...]

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Here are the photos (taken by me) of the rest of the dishes from the “Chicken Soup with Rice” Dish-Off in August’s issue of Sound magazine. You can find the full report, include menus, here. Click to enlarge any of the photos.

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With recent commentary about Viagra ice cream and question about frozen custard, here’s something I can’t taste locally but can truly support: Ben & Jerry’s Hubby Hubby ice cream. In celebration of rights to same-sex marriage in the state of Vermont, hometown heroes Ben and Jerry have renamed the popular Chubby Hubby flavor to Hubby [...]

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