I can only imagine how the chef or line cook reacted when this order came through.  And let’s be frank, the worst scallops they could find went into this meal.  It’s much like you’re going to get the shittiest cut of beef if you order it well done. 

The best frozen pizza I’ve ever had was as a kid back in New Jersey. If Tree Tavern Pizza was available nationally, I’d be in heaven because it beats the hell out of most of the pizza I’ve had at restaurants here in CA.

Kitchens are setup to accommodate the menu and the daily specials. Every kitchen I’ve worked in was setup like a Model T. factory for deficiency to get orders out as quickly as possible. When a patron asks for a substitution, it requires breaking a certain rhythm, albeit usually minor. Also subbing out one protein for…

Is your last name “Kennedy”?

I’m a confirmed introvert unless, according to my husband, I get stuck in front of a beer aisle with confused individuals. Then somehow I become completely chatty and opinionated about beer.   And I concur with the points above.  And will add that the TJ’s version of Oktoberfest is not where you want to go in the…

Especially the grey/ black ones.  Let’s combine the worse taste of licorice with the wafer made of ancient dust.  

I remember one night in college when one of my indie loving friends was just ripping on Abba, and then suddenly one of our cohorts declared “But the songs are just the most amazing pop masterpieces”. We all fell silent and nodded silently while we drank the rest of our beers.

Yeah, Pepperidge Farm remembers!  Yeah, they remember a time when I was lithe and thin before I scarfed all those chocolate chip cookies and mint milanos...

Gott in Himmel, you folks needed a German Oma to teach you this stuff from the time you were 3.  Seriously, this was one of the first “life skills” imparted to me by my grandmother and mother.   Emily Post had nothing on these two women when it came to proper dining, even if it was a weekday meal. 

After I raved about the book, my son grabbed my copy from the living room bookshelf.  I haven’t seen it since, lol.

I will gladly down a bottle of Frenet Branca--(I actually like it in coffee) before even drinking a single shot of Malort.  I’m one of those people who actually likes digestivs.  But Malort is just vile tasting to me. 

My daughter once took a sip of a Negroni I was drinking at a restaurant and decclared “OMG, mom this tastes like death”.  I politely dispute that conclusion, because while Campari may be bitter, if you want something that tastes truly like death you drink Malort. 

I have mixed feelings about Veemo. Its great on business trips when you are eating out with a group and you want to split meal expenses using it and the TAB app, but its a great way for your cheap ass anal retentive friends to make sure that they don’t pay a single penny more than they actually owe.

California State Parks are famous for “interpretive areas”.  One of the bands I was in we always joked about putting out a CD titled “Interpretive dance in the Interpretive area”

I haven’t read Something Wicked in a while, but I did go back and read Illustrated Man recently. And “The Veldt” given our continued reliance on “smart” objects and houses, was considerably more creepy than when I read it as a child.

I learned to read at an early age and was a voracious reader as a kid.  Ray was one of those authors I kept on going back to year after year.   I have to say that when I read / heard Neil Gaiman’s short story “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury”  I was pretty much teared up by the end.  Gaiman summed it up so beautifully…

Oh Thank you for mentioning Ray Bradbury—my greatest fear is that his literature will get lost in the mists of time. While Fahrenheit 451 gets a nod in English lit classes, so much of his other short stories and novels were so wonderful and worth discovery. Something Wicked This Way Comes, along with the Martian…

Not to be a Debbie downer, but god I long for the day when Hollywood gets off the remake/rehash/update treadmill.

As I get older, foods that are allegedly bad for you are having a nostaglic pull 

As I get older, foods that are allegedly bad for you are having a nostaglic pull