On wednesday morning i saw President Bush’s motorcade driving down Park Avenue (I couldn’t cross Park and was late to work. I even twittered about it. Thanks Mr President!). So i watched the long line of cars driving full speed in direction of the U.N thinking: ‘Damn! I want 20 cops on motorcycle to open [...]

Can you tell i cleaned the refrigerator today?

I like to start fresh every week but i had two duck legs confit, various vegetables, mushrooms, some ginger, garlic, shallots and scallions leftover from last week, so i made a nice little stir-fry. When the vegetables started to get happy in the wok i deglazed with a [...]

Remember when the food critic, Anton Ego, reviews the restaurant the young Linguini has just taken over in the movie Ratatouille? Anton, who looks like a geeky Count Dracula, is served ratatouille. His first reaction is to dismiss it as peasant dish, but after the first bite he’s overcome with childhood memories. Ego has a [...]

I was bombarded with freshly picked, juicy, sweet and tart apples from Big Bossman’s garden today. My first reflex was to dodge the attack and jump under the kitchen table to resist the change of season, but that didn’t make the apples go away. Eventually my rumbling stomach forced me out of hiding and i [...]

A few days ago I went to see a massage therapist in Chinatown after hurting my back at work. People around me kept warning me of this kind of therapy saying things like: “You can’t take the pain, you wuss!” or “This ain’t for gwai lo’s!” (white boys) or even “You’ll cry like a baby!”. [...]