Restaurant: La Terraza Location: Madrid Spain Date: June 29, 2010 Cuisine: Molecular Spanish Gastronomy Rating: Fantastic! We spent the month of June in Spain and this included a legion of fantastic meals. Recently I covered a traditional Spanish place (REVIEW HERE), but…
If I had a penny for every time I’ve been asked this question… Game developers have only a few broad types of employees. Excluding administrative ones like office management, HR, and IT, broadly the team has Programmers, Artists, Sound Engineers,…
Restaurant: La Serenata Location: 1416 Fourth Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. 310-656-7017 Date: Jan 8, 2011 Cuisine: Mexican When I first started going 15-16 years ago, La Serenata was fairly eye opening — coming as I did from the world…
Title: The Windup Girl Author: Paolo Baciqalupi Genre: Sci-Fi Read: Jan 5-9, 2011 Summary: Interesting Science, mediocre Fiction. This novel won the 2009 Nebula and tied for the 2010 Hugo. It’s set in an approximately 100-200 years-from-now dystopian future Bangkok ravaged by…
Restaurant: Divino Location: 11714 Barrington CourtBrentwood, CA 310.472.0886 Date: Jan 07, 2011 Cuisine: Italian Summary: Solid value. Divino is another of Brentwood’s seemingly endless supply of Italian eateries. I find this one in the upper middle of the pack. It’s pretty good,…
In my pursuit to optimize the blog I’ve created yet more pages: Food Index Fiction Index On Writing Complete Archives Blog navigation is funny because the default themes make it difficult to to lure people into old posts. Given that…
Great read. Reminds me of books I read 30 years ago. It starts off with a bang — given that the first chapter features a naked seventeen year-old girl!
Since I have so many Ultimate Pizza posts I wanted to gather their links together into a single page. But I solemnly promise this is the last pizza post for a good while — at least until I prepare another batch of them! In summary, every…
This is a very likable teen romance about an Idaho girl’s first real relationship and of course… how she lost her virginity. It’s sort of like Judy Blume’s Forever, but updated and minus the good sex.
The seventh Ultimate Pizza post. Earlier in the series were Dough, Pesto,Sauce, Toppings, New Years Pizza, and Day 2. Woah! We had family over on Sunday to polish off the seven remaining pizza balls and work our way through some more of the toppings….
I stumbled upon this independent and self published author who is selling very well (mostly on Amazon) with no prior print history. This is a fun book. But it’s an Indy book. It’s professional, but it’s also the novel equivalent of a B movie. Written quickly, revised quickly, and sold cheaply. The author has enough talent to shoot higher.
As if you can’t tell, I like cheese. A lot. Many many different kinds of cheese. About 15 years ago I was at Valentino Restaurant in Santa Monica and I discovered Burrata. This is a fresh Italian cheese, originally from Apulia (the boot…
Interesting how a good TV writing team can really spruce something up. The book is good — particularly the voice — but the show is amazing.
Here we are at the sixth Ultimate Pizza post. My neck is all knotted up from this much obsession. Earlier in the series were Dough, Pesto, Sauce, Toppings, and New Years Pizza. Since we had a lot of dough balls,…
Finally, five posts later, we come to the main event, the Ultimate Pizza. This post is pretty epic, but just to recap. We set the stage with articles on the Dough, the Pesto, the Sauce, and the Topping Preparation. Now…
When making Ultimate Pizza fresh ingredients are one of the most crucial elements. I already went over the preparation of the Dough, the Pesto, and the Sauce. Now I’ll cover the bulk of the shopping and for toppings. I get…
This is part 3 of my comprehensive coverage of our New Years pizza making, following the article on Dough and the one on the Pesto. Upcoming will be toppings and the pizzas themselves. Here are the ingredients. Two types of marzano tomatos from Italy….
This is part 2 of my series on Ultimate Homemade Pizza. For Part 1 (on Dough) CLICK HERE. We prepare a lot of different toppings, including homemade pesto, which makes an excellent substitute or compliment to tomato sauce. Most toppings will have to…