Jason Perlow

Yup. I also like to immerse cut of slices of it into the leftover matzo ball soup broth in my bowl, and quickly yank them out with a spoon before they disintegrate. Sort of like soup sponges.

I'm pretty much a challah purist. I don't like raisins or any other foreign objects in it. Challah for me can be either round, or not round. That's pretty much all I'll accept.

I think it would look visually nice, but the cups aren't insulated, so it might not be as good as styrofoam for keeping the shake cold.

You're going to turn a classic Airstream into a mobile burger joint? I am not sure whether to be blown away or to recoil in horror!

I'm thinking we need to do something with pork, and get that out of our system, just prior to Rosh Hashanah, where we can do the Kasha Varnishkes and any number of other yiddishe treats. I think satay would satisfy that, especially if a number of us made pork satay. But Carnitas... now thats a thought.

Thats actually a classic example how differently an American sitcom and a British sitcom approach the same joke -- the American version is dumbed down, meant for instantaneous shock value, and the British one is funnier by virtue of putting some actual thought into the joke and a lot more set-up. I think the joke went throughout the entire episode in Chef whereas on KC it only was one scene. This is not to say the British don't have cheap jokes in their Sitcoms -- they have tons of them (Such as Mrs. Slocombe's classic "My Pussy Was..." missives on Are You Being Served) but they make them cheap for the sake of being cheap. American Sitcoms use cheap jokes because they can't find better ones.

Yes, they lost it in the soup, right? On the night a major food critic was visiting?

The blood gushing out of the fingers bit was funny, even though it was a cheap joke and a direct rip off of the classic Julia Child skit on SNL. I'm also certain the "lost body part" gag was on an episode of CHEF! but I can't be certain. And wasn't the scene where Jack sits down with the group of inebriated women a overt nod to Rocco Dispirito and "The Restaurant"?

That too, but then again, it is just television. I can put up with that specific suspension of reality more than the other one.

As I said previously on the thread, this would never, ever, ever happen in real life. The food reviewer for the New York Times gets sent to review her ex's restaurant? The conflict of interest would be disastrous for the reviewer if that information came to light, which this day in age it definitely would have. Can you imagine? No, it's total bullshit. Think about the stink that happened when Jean Georges wrote a liner note for Amanda Hesser's book and then she went on to review Spice Market -- this is even more of a breach of ethics.

I can't say I am a fan of the modern American sitcom genre in general, and knowing the person and the book that the show is loosely based on makes it that much more difficult to watch, because I had very high expectations. I thought that a lot of the humor was very forced, and as Holly points out, there were too many stereotypes. But yeah, I'll watch it.

Here's a fig appetizer preparation that we had at the "rehearsal dinner" for Varmint's Second Occassional Pig Pickin at Crook's Corner Restaurant in Chapel Hill, NC: Figs wrapped with thin country ham, and then drizzled with a sauce of sour cream, EVOO, mint, vinegar and mustard.

Honey Fig Jam (RecipeGullet)

You could do it that way and you'd get good results as well.

Jason-- You're obviously hearing/reading about these festivals (i.e. the Brazilian one in the Ironbound); any reason you can't either post them on the calendar in advance or start a thread before you go to the events? Seems like many of us only hear about them after the fact, when you post the pics and torture us! Curlz ← The answer is that I'm typically seeing them on road signs or being told about them the day or so before, and I usually don't have time to get them into the Calendar. But I'll ty to be more proactive about it. If anyone knows about these things far enough in advance I can get them into the calendar.

The Dhosa guy referrred to it as soup though, and it came with a spoon, and I ate it as soup, however. The coconut stuff was more of a dip.

JHlurie and I went to check out the Indian Food Fair at the Sadhu Vaswani Indian Cultural Center in Closter today. Terrific food all around. Sadhu Vaswani Center 494 Durie Avenue Closter, New Jersey 201-768-7857 Some Indo-Chinese food to start off Chowpatty Chaat The Dhosa Man Dhosa Filling Dhosa Vedai Vedai with soup and coconut chutney Samosas The Hindu God Ganesh bringing good luck Pickles for sale Kulfi Dessert -- Indian ice cream with rosewater and glass noodles and crushed ice Falafel, Indian Style

As I understand, Tony Luke's in NYC is a legitimate outpost of an actual cheesteak place in Philly. But its probably the only example. They even bring in their meat and bread from Philly. http://www.tonylukes.com/

I've never heard of Six-In-One before. I'll have to look for it.

Actually I am looking forward to trying the strawberry one, there aren't that many decent strawberry sodas on the market.

It was a pretty decent sushi place, to be sure. Its also where I learned about Sake Bombers.

I'd like to report that it is now possible to have a Yankee Stadium Sandwich IN Yankee Stadium. Mike's Deli has now opened an outpost -in- the House that Ruth Built. I asked Dave Grecco what it cost to put one in there, and he looked at me quite seriously and said: "You don't wanna know". I promised Dave I would tell everyone about the newly redesigned Mike's Deli web site: http://www.arthuravenue.com

That is barbaric man, absolutely barbaric. Surely another person in your party could have finished the thing off. Poor little double cheeseburger, half eaten. A destiny unfulfilled. So you didn't answer my question, char broiled or griddled? The fries look like pretty pedestrian, frozen crinkle cuts. Like the crappy fries they make at White Castle.

So you just LEFT a half a double cheeseburger there? Nobody else claimed it?

Ronnie, you couldn't finish that? I'm very disappointed. That is one mighty nice looking double cheeseburger, I must say. Are those char broiled or griddled?