by Brian | Aug 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
From your advanced calculus course, you may remember the definition of a fixed point for a mathematical function f: An attractive fixed point of a function f is a fixed point x0 of f such that for any value of x in the domain that is close enough to x0, the...
by Brian | Aug 5, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This weekend was hot. Even 30 feet in the air. Suzen and I were walking the High Line, the remarkable park in the sky on the West Side of Lower Manhattan. An old, rusting elevated train line near the Hudson was scheduled to be torn down. Instead, it has become a park,...
by Brian | Aug 4, 2014 | Recipes
Green beans are wonderful. You can depend on them, for they always taste the same. Same flavor, same drying mouth feel, same trailing after taste that screams: you just ate green beans. Since it is one of the few vegetables Suzen can readily get me to...
by Brian | Aug 4, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Einat Admony is one of those New York stories that make New Stories. She’s a master of Israeli fusion cuisine, the owner of three NYC restaurants, and the author of Balaboosta. Balaboosta is a nice Yiddish word meaning “perfect housewife.” And...
by Brian | Aug 3, 2014 | News, Personal
This post is triggered by Monday’s recipe for chipotle cream. Chipotle has this reputation for being ungodly hot. But as the photo shows, just minutes out of the fridge, they are only in the 50s, so … I may have the concept of heat confused here....
