The Blork Blog

The Web abounds with recipes for Bistecca a la Fiorentina. Most of them are pretty accurate, which should come as no surprise given how easy this is to make. However, there are a few points of method that should be made, namely: Do not oil the steak before you cook it; the oil will burn, [...]

Mark Bittman at the New York Times has published the perfect summer companion: his list of 101 fast and easy (“under ten minutes”) summer meals. I love this list for the obvious “who wants to cook in summer?” reasons but also because I love simple, easy food. We often get caught up in the trappings [...]

For some, eating alone is a rare and exquisite pleasure. For others, a sad necessity. For most of us, it falls somewhere in between, depending on circumstances both within and without our control. Regardless, eating alone is something we’ve all had to contend with at some point or other in our lives, and how we [...]

The folks behind the marketing of the upcoming The Simpsons Movie have angered pagans worldwide by creating a 180-foot tall image of an underwear-clad Homer Simpson on the same hill as the famous Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England. The image of Homer is made of biodegradable paint which will eventually dissolve and wash away. [...]

Hey, remember that post I made a few weeks ago about how Cinema Guzzo was checking people for cameras? Well out of the blue a fight has picked up in the comments between a Guzzo employee and Dave of The End of Dave. Woo hoo! Blork blog as a spectator sport! Maybe I should sell [...]

Looking at the grade six class photo that I posted last week is making me remember all sorts of stories from back then. For example, one day in grade seven, a kid named Paul and I were sitting together in the school library flipping through National Geographic magazines. Lesser memoirists would take pains to describe [...]

I haven’t seen or spoken to anyone from my elementary school in over 25 years. Even high school seems more like a genetic memory than something from real life. Time and distance, when mixed, make a potent elixir that soothes raw wounds and rounds off sharp edges. It can also dilute and drain off the [...]