Jan 20 2005
No this isn’t a publicity still from the upcoming "War of the Worlds" movie, although that sure looks like one of those eye thingies that were sticking out of the Martian war machines from the 1953 version of the film. In fact, this is a zoomed-in section of a photo I took on blvd. de [...]
Jan 19 2005
Apparently, my Santoku knife doesn’t differentiate between endives and index fingers. Stoically, I didn’t scream when the edge of my finger flew off, so Martine was unaware of my little amputation. While I was upstairs stemming the flow of blood and wrapping the wound in gauze, she busied herself at the sink swishing out a [...]
Jan 19 2005
Loyal readers know that I’m not a big fan of Starbucks, the U.S. coffee empire. To be precise, it is Starbucks’ naked ambition to rule the world in terms of coffee that I objected to here and here. For a long time I quietly boycotted the Montreal outlets, preferring to patronize locally-run cafes — whenever [...]
Jan 17 2005
I made three pizzas on Saturday night, making use of the quarry tiles in the oven as I wrote about a few days ago. Again, it worked beautifully. Apparently there were witnesses. (Click the pic for the full view on Flickr…)
Jan 16 2005
My buddy John, who once pulled me out of a crater on rue Ste-Catherine* after a beery night at Foufounes Electrique, has published a paper in the prestigious Clinical Infectious Diseases, a journal of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, out of the University of Chicago (February 1 issue). John quit Montreal a while ago [...]
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Jan 13 2005
As in, ten degrees, Celcius. You would think that a warm day would be a welcome relief from the usual sub-zero chilly days of January, but it really isn’t. Everything melts, resulting in wet and sloppy conditions, which are terrible for skiing and skating. And the next day it all freezes, covering everything in a [...]
Jan 12 2005
A few years ago I had a salsa epiphany and wrote about it on my blog. Way down under, in faraway Australia, one Jackie Turnure and her beau Tim Quarry took note, and Jackie reports that Tim’s variation of it has become one of their favorite snacks. Last year Jackie and some friends put together [...]
