Category Archives: Food

Guts of Iron

November 11, 2010 – 9:15 pm

After my mother’s passing, a vegetable never passed my father’s lips. He ate at restaurants and prided himself on his easy BMs or bowel movements. I never heard him burp. Not even when we ate at Tony’s on Wollaston Beach. He would chase down fried clams with a chocolate shake without any indigestion. I mentioned […]

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Fingerlicking Good

October 14, 2010 – 10:06 pm

back in 1995 I was in Tibet with two Frenchmen laying fiber-optic lines across the steppes. Spies probably We spoke about food. A lot, because Tibetan cuisine lacked ‘je ne sais quoi’; rancid butter tea, hairy yak meat, and crunchy grilled buckwheat or tsampa. Day after day. Bleech. We lived on cheap Chinese beer and […]

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No More Screams for Ice Cream

September 26, 2010 – 6:24 pm

One of President Obama’s first act was to sign documents to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp within the year. Almost two years later GITMO holds 147 detainees in what the US military claim are humane conditions. The treatment of prisoners has certainly improved over the previous administration’s blind eye to torture of inmates. When […]

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The Strands of Pastrami / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

September 22, 2010 – 8:36 pm

The Hassidim were hurrying home from the Diamond District. The High Holidays had come early this year with Sukkor coinciding with the ancient pagan festival of Mabon, which commemorates the autumnal equinox. Sukkor is not only a bridge across the Indus, but the festival honoring the 40 years during which the Hebrews were lost in […]

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9/11 Plus 9

September 11, 2010 – 9:18 pm

Written 9/11/2007 Bring me the head of Osama Bin Laden! The Pentagon’s reward for OBL is $50,000,000 tax-free Dead or Alive. No takers from 2001 to 2010 The al-Quada mastermind has responded to this offer via video inviting the West to embrace Islam or else. Faced with those two options I regretfully have to inform […]

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