b a r t e r
Pronunciation:\ˈbär-tər\
Function:verb
Definition: to trade by exchanging one commodity for another
Reality: Free food.
Sally does the books in exchange for a weekly dinner at the restaurant for two. Nikano brings staff meal from his restaurant when he walks in for a quick snack at the bar. The web designer [...]
The menu this week. What can I say? It’s great. I’d order every dish we have. Twice, for real.
So here’s this week’s installment. Read it and salivate.
Parsnip soup with pear relish
Farro with roasted beets & spinach
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Fennel flan with shaved fennel, pomegranate, and persimmon
Fried duck egg atop olive oil croutons and [...]
I marked my one month “anniversary” in the Emerald City and I celebrated with rain and clouds…and the beginning of a new one month countdown.
In 27 days (or app. 648 hours (or app. 38,880 minutes)) I will be back on the east coast for 8 days (or app. 192 hours (or app. 11,520 minutes)). What [...]
Freshman year bored me. Four classes, lots of free time. I begged my advisor to raise my course load. He refused. I began auditing an art history class. It was at 9am. I lasted two weeks. And so I decided to get a job.
You’d think it’d be easy, [...]
sex on the first date
drank her fill of vodka martinis
in the quiet chapel of the convent
and then, only then, did she fully understand the repercussions of her actions.
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Thanksgiving at home can be tense. Unwanted aunts, nagging grandmothers, little cousins running around. The fridge overflows with food, the oven has no space for anything [...]
With the taste of turkey, pie, and stuffing already percolating in our brains and on our taste buds, the menu this week is *slightly* pared down. A 4-course prix fixe. Eat less on Tuesday so you can eat more on Thursday. Why not? Or eat more on Tuesday AND eat more on Thursday. But don’t [...]
“I.D., please.” Buying wine is one of the things I’ve grown to love about this rainy, cloudy state. She takes a look at my New York driver’s license and squints as she searches for the birthday on the unfamiliar card. “So, you moving here?”
I guess I am.
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Tonight I used my N.Y. license [...]
Here’s a little secret about me, the purported foodie and culinary enthusiast: I could eat the same thing for dinner every night for the rest of my life and be blissfully happy.
There, I said it. Send the Food Police to my door; I won’t back down. Send them with trays of canapes, wheels [...]
S & J come to the restaurant every week. They sit at the chef’s table, cocktails in hand, and wait for the chef to decide what they’ll eat for dinner.
It’s hard to describe familiarity of the restaurant. S & J sat at the bar. The guy on Table #1 has been a regular for years. [...]
celeriac soup with sweet pear relish
spinach salad with pumpkin seeds and cranberry
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mustachioed pistachio’ed pineapple and roasted beet salad
crab and wonton salad with watercress
brussel sprout hash with serrano
artichoke dip
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pesole
kale and ricotta stuffed sole with lemon risotto
seared scallops with vanilla-poached quince
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braised lamb with carrots and an olive pesto
duck breast with mascarpone and leek ravioli in a chanterelle [...]
