Category Archives: Food

Mussels Oh Yeah

July 4, 2021 – 3:34 pm

Last week I rode down to Little Neck Restaurant off the Gowanus Canal to sampled their Fried Clams. $22. I was thoroughly disappointed by their offering. Even the extinct HoJo clam strips were better than these measly clams, which had no bellies and were mostly Batter and fries. Yesterday I purchased little neck clams from […]

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INSECTS YUM YUM by Peter Nolan Smith

May 7, 2021 – 10:48 am

Most tourists to Thailand are fascinated by the food cart selling with fried insects i.e. crickets, grubs, cockroaches, scorpions, and several unidentified members of the insect species. Photos cost 10 baht. Thais revel in daring farangs to cross that culinary line in hopes of witnessing the European upchuck the crawly creature,s as if they were […]

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I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter

April 27, 2021 – 11:41 pm

Corporations tried to replaced butter with margarine in the 1960s. Ads extolled its taste and the supermarkets priced the corn-based spread cheaper than butter. I refused to eat the shit. My mother and father had six kids and switched to margarine to save money, but I refused to consume the crap and bought butter from […]

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Gas, Fast Food, Cars

April 25, 2021 – 2:53 pm

Today the Boston Celtics kicked off the NBA Sunday games against the Charlotte Hornets. They played like a team who had survived a BBQ dinner followed by a clandestine soiree at a crack den whorehouse and a dawn limo ride to their hotel. This team has no soul and have no chance of going anywhere […]

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A Baguette and Butter

March 16, 2021 – 4:05 pm

In the Sixties on the South Shore my Irish grandmother Nana served her grandchildren sugary tea and buttered Wonder Bread toast upon our return from parochial school. We dipped the crisp slices into the sweet milky tea and each bite revived our bodies and souls from the New England cold and eight hours under the […]

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