by Brian | Oct 14, 2013 | Recipes
Power. Our lives revolve around power. Not the Con Ed power. The power of people, organizations and nations. Our lives are shaped by power and we endlessly debate and classify power: economic, military, cultural, …. You can read or hear the debates about...
by Brian | Oct 10, 2013 | Recipes
If you ask me what season of the year I prefer, I’ll answer winter, spring, summer and autumn. I love them all and, with a house in the Catskills, I do experience them all. Snowshoes, daffodils, a summer thunderstorm, and the scents of falling leaves. Equality...
by Brian | Oct 8, 2013 | News
Don Draper in Mad Men is the prototype businessman with an expense account. Whether just off Madison Avenue or traveling to LA, Don dines well. Drinks well. And rarely sleeps alone. He is James Bond without a license to kill. Although, being in advertising, he might...
by Brian | Oct 5, 2013 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
“What town?” I was asking a friend for his address. He had moved to California and I was about to visit. “Camarillo,” he said, but very oddly. Holding a map of Ventura Country, I saw that the city was spelled with two letter “l”s so I repeated the city...
by Brian | Oct 2, 2013 | Recipes
It’s early October. Very early. October 1. In the supermarkets and at farm stands and farmers markets, there is corn aplenty. Oh, the government is shut down today, but eating goes on. Corn is a basic food that can be employed in a myriad of ways. Sometimes,...