REMEMBERING DAVID SHAW / a hot dog retrospective

By Larry Levine – It couldn’t be said that we were close friends. What tied us together were our love of food and journalism; our friendship existed mostly in emails and phone conversations about those two subjects. We were two guys who dined in many of the... Read More

MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL – Home Base, Florence

(MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL is an occasional feature written by the co-hosts of the restaurant recommendation web site http://www.atLarrys.com) By Larry Dietz – There are people who can recite every course of a great meal they had years ago; I’m not one of them. In... Read More

FOR JIM

(atLarrys.com, the restaurant recommendation web site, lost a unique and refreshing voice February 16 with the passing of Jim Tabilio. We suspended publication of new material at this magazine web site and atLarrys.com for four days in Jim’s honor. We resume... Read More

ESPRESSO FROM THE DUOMO TO HOME

By Larry Dietz, I came to coffee relatively late in life, since my mother drank a perfunctory cup now and then and my father only had a cup after dinner. What they were drinking was already-ground drip coffee, out of a can that was likely to have been sitting open for... Read More

MEMORIES OF FAMILY DINNERS GONE BY

By Larry Levine –  There’ll be no house full of people for a holiday dinner once again this year. Those times and those memories are part of a very warmly recalled past. Tonight is the first night of Rosh Hashanah, and while our family has never been... Read More