Oddball Observations

One of the blogs I follow is that of David Lebovitz, the former pastry chef at Chez Panisse restaurant in California and for a number of yea...

Back in the day when I was skinny, had dark hair, a reddish beard. Sometime in the late 1980's in Guadalajara, Mexico. Gadf...

We went on a shopping trip today. Costco and Trader Joe's. Dinner tonight: Lobster Bisque, Croissants, Kalamata Olives, way too much...

I finished the leftover Osso Buco from our New Year's Day meal for dinner last night. Incidentally Google Translate tells me that Osso...

And now, as someone wrote this morning, it's the Roaring 20's once again. And the cartoonist ap...

Oh I know, it's not a very artfully composed shot but I just wanted you to see how lucky I was at table last evening. The cente...

This beginning of a new year was much better than one I remember from many years ago. On that one, heading home from a couple of parti...