Filed under: Food
Not sure why it had to be done but it has. The NYT has combined all their Dining and Drinking blogs into one blog. I only really read Bitten but now I will have to sift through the others to get to him. I suppose I will check out the other posts but enjoyed the unfiltered variety of blog.
Our current favorite band excels at face-melting bluegrass music. But it turns out mandolin player Jeff Austin is also quite accomplished in the kitchen. We should have known when we saw them last summer they talked about the great restaurant down the street from the venue. A restaurant a friend had recomended to me and we passed up. Just think! We could have dined with the band!
Great interview on Epicurean Musician.
The recent cold weather in Florida has caused a major shortage of tomatoes in the rest of the country. This has caused some fast food restaurants to stop using tomatoes in their food unless specifically asked to. Not that this is a bad thing based on how bad those tomatoes usually are.
On the bright side, I’ve ordered my seedlings rather than starting seeds this year. With so many varities available as live plants it seemed like too much trouble to start my own. But the snow had better melt soon as I asked for a “first half of April” delivery.
What was I thinking?
We were saddened last November when our favorite Vietnamese restaurant Little Saigon closed. Great food, great Pho and really close by in Montclair.
To our delight we received word last weekend that, as rumoured, they’ve reopened in nearby Nutley. Same menu same smiling faces welcoming us. For those of you who are nearby they’re at 358 Passic Ave in Nutley (sorry, no website).
And somehow in the process of figuring out where they were I stumbled upon this wonderful site: Pho Fever. Primo’s already got his eye on a “Pho Shizzle” t-shirt.
