http://www.blork.org/blorkblog A Blog about Food, Montreal, and Me Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:44:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My American (Express) journey (nightmare) continues. Remember the famous one-cent credit that existed on my AMEX Gold card after I canceled the account? How AMEX kept sending me statements every month, listing the credit, until I finally phoned them and said they could keep the goddam cent? That was quite the ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/03/05/my-american-express-journey-nightmare/ This morning, Martine found the following sentence in a recent Vanity Fair magazine article: "The couple still fly separately." There are two problems with that sentence; first, "the couple" is a singular object, so the verb should be "flies" not "fly" (Bob flies, Bob and Fred fly). So the immediate reaction ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/02/28/fly-vs-flies/ A quick update to my "New Classic" pizza post from last week: I've added the video showing me flipping the dough. Go there now! http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/02/16/new-classic-pizza-redux/ A week ago Tuesday, I popped over to CTVmontreal.ca and happened upon a story about the Montreal Metro. Blah blah blah, whatever, and then I noticed the thumbnail image at the top of the story. Not a huge picture, just a stock image that they use for Metro stories when ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/02/11/ripped-off/ Yes, I hate the term "new classic" too, but what the heck. This pizza is destined to become a classic, chez nous. It is composed of (in order, from bottom to top): Standard Blork San Marzano pizza sauce A dusting of dried oregano A respectable portion of conventional grated full-fat mozzarella cheese Baby spinach sautéed ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/02/07/a-new-pizza-classic-chez-blork/ Quick quiz: what is a "Samaritan?" If you answered "a person who selflessly does a good deed," you are wrong. A Samaritan is simply a person from Samaria, a mountainous region of the Holy Land between Judea and Galilee -- more or less what we now call the West Bank ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/02/04/samaritans/ As is my annual tradition since 2004, I present to you the list of books I read in the previous year (in this case, 2009). They are listed by author, in decending alphabetical order. The ones that really stuck with me are highlighted. House of Meetings, by Martin Amis The Wasted Vigil, ... http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2010/01/09/reading-list-books-i-read-in-2009/