Roast Beef Recipe Circa 1955

Here’s a roast beef recipe that is sure to raise an eyebrow. It’s from comedic genius Gracie Allen. I’ve included a YouTube video of the The George Burns and Allen Show that contains a reference to the recipe @ circa 25 minutes into the show.
FW: Gracies kitchen magic
Gracie Allen’s Classic Recipe for Roast [...]

Pretzel Logic

As much as I consider myself a New Yorker (I lived there more than 50 years) the reality is that I live now live in a suburb of Philadelphia which, like the city that it exurbed itself from, is out of its mind with excitement over the coming contest between the Phillies and the [...]

Pretzel Logic

As much as I consider myself a New Yorker (I lived there more than 50 years) the reality is that I live now live in a suburb of Philadelphia which, like the city that it exurbed itself from, is out of its mind with excitement over the coming contest between the Phillies and the [...]

Now This

This is just sad.
Apparently so few humans have been able to eat her cooking, that Rachael Ray has had to turn to feeding dogs to satisfy her creative ambitions. This seems “EVOO” on it’s face, yet I suppose we should be happy that the dogs are finding her food “Yum-o.” At least [...]

Now This

This is just sad.
Apparently so few humans have been able to eat her cooking, that Rachael Ray has had to turn to feeding dogs to satisfy her creative ambitions. This seems “EVOO” on it’s face, yet I suppose we should be happy that the dogs are finding her food “Yum-o.” At least [...]

Next Top Chef?

Paul Redman, one of my students from the Culinary Institute of America who himself teaches future chefs in Seattle, informed me today that a classmate, Dale Talde, is going to be competing to be the Bravo networks’ next Top Chef. It seems strange to me that I remember [...]

Next Top Chef?

Paul Redman, one of my students from the Culinary Institute of America who himself teaches future chefs in Seattle, informed me today that a classmate, Dale Talde, is going to be competing to be the Bravo networks’ next Top Chef. It seems strange to me that I remember [...]

TV Chefs, Far From Reality … Duh!

I’d love to have Frank Bruni’s job so that I could get paid to write lines like these
But the celebrity chefs who do cameos on the “Top Chef” judging panel, greeted by awe-struck stares from those contestants, recall the actors and actresses in the tic-tac-toe boxes of “The Hollywood Squares.” They’re transmitting their fungible star [...]

TV Chefs, Far From Reality … Duh!

I’d love to have Frank Bruni’s job so that I could get paid to write lines like these
But the celebrity chefs who do cameos on the “Top Chef” judging panel, greeted by awe-struck stares from those contestants, recall the actors and actresses in the tic-tac-toe boxes of “The Hollywood Squares.” They’re transmitting their fungible star [...]

Fun Stuff 4 A Friday Afternoon a la Andy Singer

We are sure that most women will agree that most- if not all- men have not done a very good job of refining their sense of humor beyond what it was immediately following the first time they laughed at the sound of flatulence or the sight of Moe Howard administering a haircut to Curly with [...]