by Joe P | Sep 23, 2012 | Chicken, life, Maine, Politics, professional chefs
There ain’t nobody here but us chickens There ain’t nobody here at all You’re stompin’ around And shakin’ the ground, You’re kickin’ up an awful dust–Alex Kramer & Joan Whitney I live in Waterville, Maine, a...
by Joe P | Aug 19, 2012 | cooking, Cooks, cursing, Greek, life
The good don’t always win And might makes right The Sword of Damocles is hanging above your head –Lou Reed Ever since my restaurant went out of business back in April, I follow the same fruitless routine every morning. While drinking multiple cups of coffee, I...
by Plumstead | Jul 22, 2012 | Fish & Shellfish, How To, life, recipes
I was a Cub Scout for a brief period in my childhood. I was a complete failure at it. My lack of success in this noble organization stemmed from both an early burgeoning of rebelliousness and a sense that I had been gypped. I felt gypped because I thought I was...
by Plumstead | Jul 17, 2012 | Cooks, cursing, life, Tipping
Acronyms are taking over our language. We can thank computers for that, as well as the texting feature on cell phones. I envision grave evolutionary consequences from this: Entire books will be only three pages long, written in a string of vowels and...
by Plumstead | Jul 6, 2012 | baking, life, pie, recipes
The picture of the pie on this and my previous blog entry is not the “exploding pie”. Rather, it is how the exploding pie would have looked if I hadn’t screwed it up. It was an aesthetic failure and, simply, a god-awful mess because I was careless....
by Plumstead | Jun 26, 2012 | baking, life, pie, recipes
I’m broke. My restaurant went belly-up two months ago. My arthritis is giving me fits. I have a chest cold. My older dog, Moses, has been dead for three days. I’m an unemployed, achy, snot-clogged, one-dog chef in his late fifties. It is a...
