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THE SECRET TO SUCCESS AT THE THANKSGIVING TABLE / buy a great bird and get out of the way
Larry Levine – Don’t brine it or butter it. Don’t smoke it or grill it or deep fry it. Just buy the best turkey you can find and step aside.
On the Inside
THE PATH TO PUBLICATION / the journey of an author and a memoir
November 14, 2018 – Been putting in serious time. Now up to 143 corrections and changes input. Just one more chapter plus acknowledgements and index of recipes to
A BIG STEP FOR A SUSHI CHEF AND HIS WIFE / the challenge of restaurant ownership
By Larry Levine – First, a question for our male readers: you are 36 years old; you are married and have two children – a boy, Shaun, 11, and a
HOT OFF THE STOVE / notes, comments, observations and links about any and all things food related
By Larry Levine – October 20, 2018 – The L.A. Times food pages revealed today something I had known for some time but was sworn to not reveal. Josiah
THE GREAT HATCH CHILI EXPLOSION / 10 years ago I never heard of them, now they are everywhere (with a
By Larry Levine – Ten years ago I had never heard of a Hatch Chili. Then, somewhere along the way, my friend Carl D’Agostino mentioned them in a telephone conversation.
SUBS, HOAGIES, GRINDERS, TORPEDOES, FOOT-LONGS / a sandwich by any other name is still a dream come true
By Larry Levine – I’ve been eating submarine sandwiches for close to three-quarters of a century, since I tasted my first one with my dad in Brooklyn, NY in the
IS IT LOX, SMOKED SALMON, OR GRAVLAX? / let’s sort out the confusion
By Larry Levine – “Larry, please go to Abie’s and get a half pound of belly lox, sliced thin.” I heard those words often when we lived in Brooklyn, NY
BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT / a 10th anniversary celebration
Chapter One – Facing the Hangman “Nothing will focus a man’s mind so quickly as the prospect of being hanged at dawn.” – Samuel Johnson My “hanged at dawn” moment came
THIS TIME I WILL EAT HAGGIS / a tale of table and tee in the land where golf was born
By Larry Levine – This time I will eat haggis. I didn’t eat it last time I was in Scotland because of its off-putting reputation. I had long heard haggis
I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOUR BUTT CRACK / and other sartorial transgressions in an America that lost its couth
By Larry Levine – She was wearing a nice dress, dark with a muted floral print. Tasteful ear rings, hair well dressed. Totally appropriate for a Saturday night dinner at
COOKING FOR A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN / the galleys are in
It was going the be the love affair to last a lifetime. Then it ended and I was changed in ways I could never have anticipated. It’s Chapter 9 – Marna’s Time – of the soon-to-be-published food memoir COOKING FOR A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN / the tastes and tales of a wonderful life. I received the galleys from the publisher and chapters will be distributed to 43 people who have volunteered to proof read one chapter each. Watch this space for details of the book release and other information.
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