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Entries Tagged as 'Food'

Ping Pong Pizza

July 8th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Ever since hearing that there was a new pizza place in town with a ping pong theme, I’ve been trying to hit it up and get served a slice. Unfortunately every time I visited Comet Ping Pong, the kitchen was closed (but they still allow you to play table tennis on the free table out [...]

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Juicy 4th

July 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Happy Independence Day!
Looking for a recipe for your cookout? I really couldn’t resist posting up this ridiculicious recipe from my favorite video podcast (RSS: subscribe here). Mark Bittman, “The Minimalist”, and New York Times chef extraordinaire, offered up some Tuna Steak with fresh herbs and olives and it looks perfect for July 4th cookout festivities. [...]

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Eat That Chicken

May 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Appetite for instruction? Live and let diet.
Inspired by Mark Bittman, and Blaise (who has an awesome cooking website but he never updates it).
Blaise challenged me to cook a good dinner and record it. I tried my best. It was pretty tasty.
I still love you Rachel Ray.
Recipe: Chicken, Broccoli, Orange Juice, Soy Sauce / Teriyaki, Honey, [...]

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Tags: Food · Movies

Or the Egg

April 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I briefly worked at a bakery in DC prior to attending law school. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you remember it vividly. If you’re new to this blog, browse the archives. I was once interesting. Now I’m a law school student.
Well, Easter makes me remember the story of trying to sell [...]

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What do Jews do on Xmas?

December 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

What do Jews do on Christmas day? Great question.
I attempted an answer in this quick video vignette. It appears that we order Chinese food and watch football games we don’t necessarily care that much about.
Though this ethnography is not the definitive documentary on the subject, there is a high-degree of accuracy in random sampling. In [...]

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Tags: Food · Travel

The Best Part of Waking Up

November 3rd, 2006 · 5 Comments

From the makers of plastic frisbees comes a giant leap forward in coffee brewing technology — the aerobie aeropress coffee maker.
I had read about this bad boy on the Internet earlier this year over on Boing Boing, and now it’s cool enough for the folks at Cool Hunting, so I guess it’s about time it [...]

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Tags: Anachronistic Technology · Food

Lack-tose

March 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Close to 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant, with the highest percentage being amongst minorities and the lowest amongst people of Northern European ancestry. So, don’t even get me started on how racist it is that there’s so many Pizza Huts in this country. I’m the intolerant one?
I talk about this stuff way too much, [...]

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