Good Magazine on star anise and swine flu.
Wait a second, Pho prevents swine flu? Probably not says the article, but I’m going to use it as an excuse to eat as much Pho as possible this winter.
“For me terrine is in your mind. For me terrine is something that you can share. It’s something you can cut in 2 pieces or in 20 pieces. Terrine for me is a symbol.” -Stéphane Reynaud
Sometimes, I have nightmares about this happening at work. Grover seems to handle the situation better than I would.
Happy 40th Birthday, Sesame Street.
Designer Matali Crasset developed Les Pastilles, a restaurant concept based on archipelagos, creating spaces that are both open and intimate at the same time.
I love it when the dining paradigm is broken.
Read more here. (link has been translated, so us brutish Americans can read it.)
Holy Buckets! This is supposedly the dinner receipt from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. At the bottom there you’ll see the number $47221.09. For some perspective, that’s about twice as much money as I’ll make this year.
The New Yorker did a pretty good job too.
Free chips on craigslist! Woot!
I recently started a new job in downtown St. Paul. As I’m spending more time in the Silver City, I’m starting to like it more. Sure, downtown is eerily quiet on weekend nights and I still get lost a lot, but I dig it. The streets are clean, there’s a little farmers market outside the door of the restaurant, and sometimes downtown smells like maple syrup. I don’t know how much quainter downtown can get.
However, I’ve noticed random coffee mugs scattered around. This one was spotted on Kellogg St, on a bridge above 35E. But this is not the only one. I’ve seen coffee mugs in places where coffee mugs usually aren’t on five separate occasions, on electrical boxes, near fences, etc.
Why is it that St. Paul attracts so many misplaced coffee mugs? Do they make their way across the river and never leave, or is it some sort of public mug-share that I’m unaware of?
