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 15 [...]

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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, here’s a [...]

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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
Cooking chicken soup with rice…
“Chicken Soup with Rice”
from Really Rosie
by [...]

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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 Hubby. [...]

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