Recent Posts Tagged With 'story'

• THE SICILIAN CONDITION (AND THE WORLD SERIES)

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 10:05 in funny, vegan, vegetarian, story, sicilian, butternut squash, apple cobbler, manicotti, melissa love, eyetalian girls club

  I was honored to accept a dinner invitation to Melissa and Paul's place to be followed by watching the Phillies get their asses kicked by the Yankees in the World Series. (Sorry Melissa, just stating facts.) Melissa, along with Meredith and m...

• The Other Brooklyn

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 02:00 in brooklyn, queens, sicily, story, sicilian, nonna, family story

       I am from Queens, (let this be clear) but when my grandparents came here from Sicily, they first settled in Brooklyn, in Bushwick to be exact. And Rocco went to Bushwick High School when it wasn't cool to live in Bushwick. Very not cool. I re...

• THE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF FRYING EGGPLANTS

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 02:00 in family, science, funny, Local, philosophy, country, story, pasta, eggplant, sicilian, rocco, fried

     I recently was stranded in the country and the parental units had to come and pick me up. Well if thats not an excuse to fry some eggplant then I don't know what is. Sergio, the CSA farmer, gave us some gigantic eggplants this week. And if I hav...

• A Concussion and Dislocated Shoulder, a Typical Day in Coney Island

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 02:00 in review, funny, new york, brooklyn, stories, Pizza, restaurants, story, cyclone, coney island, best pizza, l and b

       Coney Island is by far my favorite place in the entire world. A lot of people think weirdos and degenerates when they think of Coney Island, but take a minute to talk to some of these characters and you might change your mind. Amazing lightin...

• An East End Culinary Tour, "I'm not hungry but I'll eat!"

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 02:00 in review, funny, stories, restaurants, story, valentino, hamptons, montauk, culinary tour, lobster roll, amagansett, cittanuova

     This week marked the first Hamptons trip for Erik and I since Yui (my former work spouse as Mike called her) moved to Japan. Before embarking Erik, a vegetarian, complained that on his previous Hamptons trips he had not enjoyed one good meal! I ...

• Interview with a Baconologist

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 14:00 in funny, story, feed tim

  Enticing quote from Tim's Blog: "I myself now sweat bacon fat instead of perspiration ... did you actually test your diet before publishing it? ... Yes the diet was tested, tested with my superior mind."Read the rest of the Bacon Chat....

• SLIM JIM FACTORY EXPLOSION

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 19:00 in story, slim jim

     A Slim Jim factory in NC had a huge explosion that injured nearly 40 people, severely burning many and leaving a toxic cloud over the factory. My thoughts are with all the injured and their families. Lesson learned: any "food product" in which d...

• A DAY OF FUN AND YUM WITH CHARLES AND MARTIN

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 02:00 in story, Avocado, banana, grilled chicken, asparagus salad, avocado banana pesto ice cream, brussels sprouts with bacon, fresh berry tart

       We kicked off our Memorial Day Weekend with a canoe trip down the Deleware then back to our great friends Charles' and Martin's house, where we got to meet Ms. Pickles, their new wiener dog for the first time! There are no river adventure pho...

• Don't make the mala figura!

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 14:00 in funny, story, family story, italian expressions

  Mala Figura (mah-luh-fig-ooh-da) is an Italian phrase that I asked Rocco to define:"Carissima,First of all the term is mala figura. This is really a very central theme in Italian culture. A culture that has many "external" features i.e appearances o...