Comments on: Foodies.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:44:33 +0000

What, “drill cozy” isn’t good enough for you?

By: alex

alex — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:30:44 +0000

Aw, who’s supposed to remember what they read in college when they were six sheets to the wind and cramming with Cliff’s Notes?

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:04:29 +0000

That’s because you had your facts wrong. I think it was a piece of liver, not a beef tenderloin. (The Portnoys were too proletarian for tenderloin.) Although a funny catch. As I recall, the line was, “Now you know the worst thing I’ve done. I fucked my family’s dinner.”

By: alex

alex — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:59:04 +0000

I spring a great literary allusion to masturbation and no one bites. Jeezus friggin’ Christ.

By: joodyb

joodyb — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:21:39 +0000

Johh C: I think Charley Trotter was the model for Phil Hartman’s xter. A friend and I went to the restaurant for our birthdays (my most expensive meal ever) – 7 mysterious, miniscule courses, each served on a giant geometric white plate. we sometimes had no idea what we were eating, and we are very friendly with food! we never saw CT, obviously. waiters replaced our napkins every 10 min. we giggled like first-graders. it was late on a weeknight, and after dinner one of the waiters sneaked us down to the tv kitchen to look around. it was giant; amply tricked-out with spacious dining area.
I’d still rather have had dinner with Phil Hartman.

By: John C

John C — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:47:37 +0000

My all-time favorite insane chef is Charlie Trotter. I remember watching him on TV in Chicago demonstrating a recipe for, if memory serves, an olive-oil-based dressing to marinate a piece of tuna for the grill. After 15 minutes of grinding and mincing and smashing, he added a pinch of what he had just laboriously produced and said, I kid you not: “Now set this aside in the fridge for three days.”
This also makes me think of the late great Phil Hartman’s Anal-Retentive Chef, although the Anal-Retentive Handyman was better. (“And this is my drill cozy!”)

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:13:44 +0000

Thanks, Luisa, and I see you did mention fresh cranberries in your original post. Nice cake, though, eh?

By: Luisa

Luisa — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:07:51 +0000

Just wanted to pipe up and say “use fresh cranberries!” Not dried… the dried ones are too sweet, and the fresh ones give this sweet cake a nice, sour kick.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:04:17 +0000

Beb, apparently you’ve never seen “Hell’s Kitchen.”

By: sue

sue — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:57:54 +0000

There are so many things to object to in the City Church video, but the worst… an hour-and-a-half long service? Are they nuts? And regarding the whole “come and score a hot wife” sales pitch: is there a two-drink minimum? (*snark*)