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Music made for Autumn in New York:               All of these made possible by my beautiful girlfriend....

Michael Ruhlman, a writer and Culinary graduate, wrote a guest post at megnut.com about a proposed NJ ban on the sale (or production, it's not clear) of fois gras. Ruhlman nails it when he calls them out for trying to get publicity by attacking a small segment of animal producers. It's funny, from everything I've read and seen about the production of fois, it's always been seemingly incredibly more humane than how we produce the rest of our food... But if the rumor is true, the foie brouhaha has reached...

The past week or so hasn't been the greatest. I guess it's the fall doldrums that I've run into, but it hasn't been as easy as it had been. Don't get me wrong, class and school in general are going great. My grades are excellent and my skills are really coming along. I've started being able to produce things that are actually pretty outstanding. It's nice to be able to do things that impress yourself, and it's nice to see the progression thus far. Perhaps, I'm finally missing home; but...

An absolutely beautiful, well-written article from the New York Times Magazine about Michael Oher. It's a must-read for everyone. While some is about football, the real beauty is in the story of the people who helped make Big Mike. If there was a less promising academic record, Simpson hadn’t seen it. Simpson guessed, rightly, that the Briarcrest Christian School hadn’t seen anything like Michael Oher either. Simpson and others in the Briarcrest community would eventually learn that Michael’s father had been shot and killed and tossed off a bridge, that...

How people can not love this man are beyond me... he's just so smooth and wonderful to listen to....

A view on the E. coli spinach outbreak from the original owner of Riverside Farms, one of the farms at the center of the controversy. Spinach!? by Andy Griffin Deborah Schot, a reporter from the L.A. Times, called me to ask for an opinion about the e coli outbreak in prepackaged fresh spinach that has killed one person and sickened hundreds more. And yes, I have an opinion. I think the F.D.A. employee that I heard on the radio yesterday urging people to play it safe and not eat fresh...

This past week was a short one, and pretty easy all around. My procrastinating ways led me to wait three months before attempting to write my 23 pages I needed for Wednesday's writing class. I spent all day Tuesday writing; hardly even moving from my desk for the entire day. Our assignment was to write a one-page journal entry every class meeting and turn them in at the end of the term. So, of course, I waited until the day before. After writing my 23 pages, I wrote a...

I never knew 10 days could be so short, but Whitney's seemingly long visit is already over. We did have a great 10 days with lots of good food (surprise!) and several trips down into Manhattan. I've always enjoyed it up here, but having Whitney around made it all the better. I'm sad to say my zeal for NY is a little less after seeing how good it could be....

Obviously, the posting has been a little light. Whitney is here visiting and we've been really busy....