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Poker and fine dining

Poker and fine dining 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

I've recently begun using PubSub to follow a few topics, people mostly. One of my keyword subscriptions is for "thomas keller", the noted chef. A new item comes across the wire every day or so, usually from someone who is trying out a recipe from Keller's Bouchon cookbook.

Then one day I noticed an item about Keller playing in a poker tournament. "Hmmm," I thought, "I didn't know he played poker. Must be participating in one of those celebrity tournaments that are all over the cable television." Over the next few weeks, I discovered that Keller evidently played in a lot of celebrity poker tournaments. "Must be really into poker as a hobby," I thought, not really reading any particular item very closely.

Then it got ridiculous...there was an item every few days about Keller's poker playing exploits. How on earth does this guy have time to run his restaurants when he's playing all this poker? Has this famed perfectionist workaholic chef found a new obsession? Does Thomas Keller have a gambling problem?

And then the obvious truth hit me...wrong Thomas Keller, stupid. Thomas "Thunder" Keller, aged 24, is the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker event. Perhaps I can take consolation in that somewhere out there, there's a young poker fan as confused as I was about his hero "Thunder" shirking his card-playing responsibilities to write a cookbook about French bistro cuisine.

Guide Praises North Korean Fine Dining
(AP)

Guide Praises North Korean Fine Dining
(AP) 01/28/2004 12:29 PM
AP - Many North Koreans barely get enough to eat. But the capital of the totalitarian state is awash in good restaurants for those who can afford it, according to a guide compiled by three foreign aid workers.

Web Zen: Dining Zen

Web Zen: Dining Zen 04/30/2004 12:17 PM
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late night dining guide
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web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).

Wining and dining . . . again

Wining and dining . . . again 12/08/2003 07:10 PM
His customers this year include several pharmaceutical concerns, law firms, investment firms and even some technology companies, including Google, which will ...

Bay Area Dining and Death

Bay Area Dining and Death 04/14/2005 02:33 AM

Dinner on successive nights in the City and the Valley: Monday with Dervala at Fringale, Tuesday with Lauren at La Strada in Palo Alto. The differences are instructive, and the distance can be deadly...

"East Valley Dining Reviews"

"East Valley Dining Reviews" 06/03/2004 05:04 AM

The declining state of diner dining

The declining state of diner dining 07/19/2004 07:57 PM
A rather disheartening article in the week's New York magazine, The Death of the Diner: What’s killing the cheeseburger deluxe? Sad but true: The classic New York coffee shop is fading fast. The recession is part of the problem; according to Pan Gregorian Enterprises, a purchasing co-op for coffee shops and diners that has 475 local members, revenues were down 20 percent last year. But there are other forces at work, from skyrocketing rents to Starbucks hegemony, that are forcing coffee-shop owners...into retirement. Some of my favorite Manhattan places to eat are diners: in Tribeca I frequently had lunch at the Square Diner (at the intersection of Leonard and West Broadway), closer to my hood I like Joe Jr's on Sixth Avenue and the Bonbonniere on Eighth Avenue. And whenever I go to the movies up on 34th Street, I like to have a pre-theatre meal at the Cheyenne, at Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street. One of the things I missed most about the east coast during my tenure in San Francisco were diners, and one of the highlights of my first return to New York City after an absence of many years was our trip to the now-demolished Jones Diner. It might have been the final push I needed to move back east. I've never tasted a better grilled cheese, or a worse cup of coffee, or had a nicer time on a cold winter's afternoon with the light fading into a cruddy January grey. There's a lot I could do without in this world, but I can't say that I want to live a life without my diners.

More Wining and Dining in Redmond This
Week

More Wining and Dining in Redmond This
Week 03/19/2005 03:04 AM
It looks like it was a busy week on the Microsoft campus. In addition to inviting advertising execs to headquarters, Microsoft also hosted some "Competitive Influentials" for some give-and-take on Microsoft's developer strategies. And across the bridge in Seattle, Microsoft conducted some 64-bit briefings for another set of its key constituents.

Hospital Cafeteria a Hot Spot for Dining
(AP)

Hospital Cafeteria a Hot Spot for Dining
(AP) 06/22/2004 10:45 AM
AP - Forget any of the old jokes about hospital food.

Amazing dining at Eleven Madison Park

Amazing dining at Eleven Madison Park 05/21/2004 05:16 PM
I've had my share of tasting menus but last night's six-course tasting menu at Eleven Madison Park was one of the best. With wonderful big windows looking onto the lush Madison Square Park, and an interior filled with flowers of all kinds, Eleven Madison Park's atmosphere got the evening off to a great start. The champagne that followed continued the thrill. Usually the tasting menu is a series of small plates, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the kitchen. At Eleven Madison Park, the breadth is more visible because they don't serve everyone the same dish. So each course was actually one thing for Jason and something different for me. Like a creamy pea flan with morels for one and asparagus with goat cheese for the other. Or skate in brown butter and cod. Arctic char and salmon. Each course we ate half of what was on the plate, then switched. So the six-course menu (which actually eight courses counting the tuna tartare amuse bouche and the chocolate soufflé) ended up providing eleven different things to eat. And wowzers, but where they good! The pea flan was creamy and sweet and the most beautiful shade of green. The four fish courses were each distinct, each wonderful. And the only course that was the same for both of us was a côte du boeuf -- beef -- that was perhaps the best piece of meat I've ever eaten in my life. It was such a great experience to have so many textures, so many flavors -- and with the wine flight we had to accompany it, so many different wine tastes -- that I wonder why I'd ever want just a larger plate of one thing. I am fully subscribed to the Thomas Keller school of thought when it comes to portion size: three or four bites is a wonderful amount, enough that you experience it and yet not so much your tongue tires of the flavors. Each last bite leaves you wanting more. And yet the next course comes and it's another exiting adventure and new flavors. I can still nearly taste the pea flan on my tongue! I definitely recommend Eleven Madison Park and hope to have the pleasure of dining again there someday.

The New York Times > Dining & Wine
> As All-American as Egg Foo Yong

The New York Times > Dining & Wine
> As All-American as Egg Foo Yong 09/23/2004 07:50 PM
The history of Chinese restaurants in America .. now

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"Pets"

"Pets" 04/08/2005 10:10 AM

On pets...

On pets... 11/11/2003 08:02 PM

So Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was apparently - woo - a tremendous success in the States and everyone was so happy about it and stuff because - ha ha - funny gay men patronising the dumbass straight men - how funny is that!? But now - if the reports are to be believed - then there's going to be a "Straight Eye for the Queer Guy" show coming out, designed to turn the tables back again with - ha ha - hilarious consequences. But turning the tables is not considered by some gay people to be acceptable. Their argument is that gay people already know enough about straight life - given that they've had to spend many years trying to fit into straight culture while being taught that their lives will be immoral, diseased and short-lived before erupting free from this stigma in a blaze of brightly-coloured taffeta and nicely-tapered trouser-bottoms. Their point is - I suppose - that one's a tasteless misrepresentation, and the other isn't...

I'm just having trouble figuring out which is which! Because as far as I can see, both of them share one thing in common - a flagrant and blatantly patronising image of gay people as cheery little inoffensive sexless chappies. Well bollocks to that. Bollocks to happy gay people on TV, bollocks to the straight audiences, bollocks to the producers, bollocks to the bloody cameramen, bollocks to any passing trannies. Bollocks, if you will, to absolutely bloody everyone. I'm going to say this once and once only - and I hope it doesn't come as too much of a shock to anyone: It's not just Straight Eye for the Queer guy that will be patronising shit that sells an image of gayness that is damaging and frustratingly bland. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was patronising shit as well.

I can't really believe that was a shock to anyone, but just in case - I'm sorry for those of you who fell over and hit your head...

Back in the late eighties, when the prevailing mood was that gay people were diseased perverts that would lead short, ill, shameful and disgusting lives, the idea that we might get portrayed as happy little child-puppets was quite appealing. But that time has passed and I think we've all had enough now of that newest of grotesque gay stereotypes archetypes - that of the girl's-best-friend, sexless, happy, home-keeping, stylish queer. I might actually bloody vomit if I see it one more time on television and if I get my greasy hands on (Kevin Kline let me reassure you that I'll be giving him a piece of my oh-so-wise and oh-so-well-tailored happy gay mind.

It's not because it's an unpleasant image of homosexual individuals, and it's not because there aren't any gay men that are all smiley and pastel in the world (because there are, and they're lovely). No, it's just because I'm sick to death with being "understood" by people I meet on as a "good-natured, slightly-dim, fashion-obssessed hysterical best-friend-in-times-of-need" kind of guy on the basis of the representation of 'my kind' in a few shit films and TV shows. There are differences between gay people and straight people - don't get me wrong. But there aren't any scientists world-wide who truly understand what the hell they all are, so why the hell do a twenty minute comedy show going to have a better idea?

Now I've read my Foucault like the best of them, and I believe him to be right when he says that categorising something is a way of asserting power over it. Hence the creation of homosexuality a little over a hundred years ago. And I'm with him on the next step too - that the creation of the category also creates an identity around which the group can rebel, to try and recast itself. But it works the other way around too. We started off as godless, sex-obsessed, dirty monsters and we fought and we've rebelled. And now instead we're god-loving, relationship-focused, kitchen-cleaning princes among men who like little dog, Versace and television where 'we' get to patronise people. Our 'positive' image has already been reincorporated and recontextualised and reconsidered and represented. The tremendous variety of gay male experience - from the most delicate to the most brutal, from the most elegant to the most fierce, from the most diplomatic to the most battle-ready, even from the most tacky to the most trivially crass - all of it is reduced down to the image of gay men as a fussy little child - who plays at 'houses', plays at 'cooking', plays at 'being a man', plays at life.

Well I want out. And this is where I turn around to face my colleagues who loved "Queer Eye" but are cross about its sequel. It's not enough that a programme on television should just be ostensibly 'nice' about gay people. It's shouldn't float our boats that some show finds it entertaining to see the happy poofs take the piss out of groups that used to kick our heads in. If you want some honour in your programming, demand that it shows you a larger variety of truths. Like the truth that shows identity as something fought for, forged, lost and rebuilt. And not one where it's given like you'd give a pet a name...

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Microsoft Aims to Transform Lodging,
Dining Experiences with Smarter
Hospitality

Microsoft Aims to Transform Lodging,
Dining Experiences with Smarter
Hospitality 12/22/2004 01:48 AM
Picture this: After a long, stressful journey, a tired traveler checks into his hotel from the back seat of a taxi via telephone, picks up his key from the concierge and checks into his room - all without stopping at the registration desk. When he enters his room, the temperature is set right where he likes it, the drapes are open as he prefers and his favorite hometown radio station is playing softly on the in-room entertainment system. On the table is information about a spa package that includes a hot soak and a massage - two of his favorite indulgences.

Pets or Meat

Pets or Meat 04/12/2005 11:43 AM
The publisher of SaveToby.Com has raised $24,500 by threatening to kill and eat his beloved pet bunny. How much more could he have earned by promising to eat Karyn?

cortina household pets

cortina household pets 01/16/2004 11:31 AM
Paul O'Neill has backed off from some of the statements I quoted a couple of days ago. Of course, this has resulted in a few e-mail lectures from people who kindly advise that I should just shut my stupid Hollywood liberal mouth and move to France. I'm not planning any relocation, or any self-censorship in the near future, so If you're one of those readers, I kindly advise you to go listen to Rush and come back tomorrow.

On Pets TV and working wallpaper...

On Pets TV and working wallpaper... 04/29/2004 09:07 AM

From behind the mediaguardian registration wall comes this wonderful little weird nugget of BBC-ness:

Pet TV is a service digital viewers can access by pressing the interactive red button on their remotes, for a week-long run from Saturday May 1. It is being billed by the BBC as an attempt to find out what sort of TV programmes, sounds and images animals respond to. The interactive TV service will consist of a looped series of images and sounds, including clips of snooker balls rolling across the green baize, frisbees flying through the air, cat toys and cartoon characters such as Top Cat. The service will also offer clips from more traditional TV fare, such as EastEnders, Neighbours, The Muppet Show and Animal Hospital. Pet TV can be tried out on dogs, cats, birds and even fish, according to the BBC.

Not quite sure what I think of in terms of how entertaining pets might find it, but it could be ideal ambient TV wallpaper. I'm thinking of having it on all the time...

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dogster, pictures of pets

dogster, pictures of pets 01/22/2004 02:08 PM
please god make it stopster

Postmodern furniture for pets

Postmodern furniture for pets 05/26/2004 07:46 PM
Nifty scratching posts and other stuff for your pet available here. Link

Woman who kept 271 pets released

Woman who kept 271 pets released 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
A woman jailed for animal cruelty after cramming 271 pets into her filthy cottage is freed on appeal.

Tracking system on the way for pets

Tracking system on the way for pets 08/30/2004 06:34 AM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 10:52AM GMT

Will Pets Juice Rayovac?

Will Pets Juice Rayovac? 03/17/2005 04:18 AM
Do batteries and pets mix? We're not talking Furby.

US firm ready to clone pets

US firm ready to clone pets 08/09/2004 12:43 AM
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Company Said to Be Ready to Clone Pets
(AP)

Company Said to Be Ready to Clone Pets
(AP) 08/07/2004 08:21 AM
AP - A company that unveiled the world's first cloned cat nearly three years ago now says it is ready to start filling orders for cloned pets, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Newspaper Offers Obituaries for Pets
(AP)

Newspaper Offers Obituaries for Pets
(AP) 08/20/2004 06:04 PM
AP - Yogi got to know a lot of people in his short life. He made friends at the University of Vermont, and the Woodbridge Nursing Home, and the state women's prison, where he made the rounds, and in Plainfield, where he lived.

BBC TV channel offers programming for
pets

BBC TV channel offers programming for
pets 04/29/2004 05:40 PM
From the Guardian: Pet TV "is being billed by the BBC as an attempt to find out what sort of TV programmes, sounds and images animals respond to. The interactive TV service will consist of a looped series of images and sounds, including clips of snooker balls rolling across the green baize, frisbees flying through the air, cat toys and cartoon characters such as Top Cat." Link (Registration required, unless you use the wonderful bugmenot.com) (Thanks, Carlo!)

Cat's Clicks: Virtual Pets

Cat's Clicks: Virtual Pets 08/21/2004 10:08 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 22 2004 2:14AM GMT

Dingoes evolved from Asian pets
(Reuters)

Dingoes evolved from Asian pets
(Reuters) 08/03/2004 12:33 AM
Reuters - Dingoes, the yellow native dogs of Australia, probably evolved from a very small group of pets brought by south-east Asian settlers, researchers have reported.

Man Pets Jaguar, Pays with His Finger
(Reuters)

Man Pets Jaguar, Pays with His Finger
(Reuters) 05/19/2004 10:40 AM
Reuters - A New Mexico man made a hasty exit from a zoo after climbing close to a cage to illegally pet a jaguar, but police were able to track him down by the severed finger he left behind.

EU Delays Launch of Passports for Pets
(Reuters)

EU Delays Launch of Passports for Pets
(Reuters) 06/09/2004 09:10 AM
Reuters - Owners will be able to take their cats, dogs and ferrets on holiday abroad this summer even if they do not have a pet passport as required under EU law, the European Commission said Wednesday.

Firm Seeks Business of Cloning Pets (AP)

Firm Seeks Business of Cloning Pets (AP) 08/06/2004 04:43 PM
AP - A company that unveiled the world's first cloned cat nearly three years ago now says it is ready to start filling orders for cloned pets, a newspaper reported Thursday.

New Site AnimalAttraction.com Combines
Pets, Dating

New Site AnimalAttraction.com Combines
Pets, Dating 06/03/2004 12:02 PM
"Animal Attraction will become the meeting place for pet lovers" said Dan Cohen. "Animal Attraction members can easily communicate through email, instant messaging, chat rooms and message boards. The site also features pet care information from the Humane Society of The United States and information on Animal Attraction "meet-ups" and Animal Attraction-hosted events across the country.

MRI machines adapt to newest patients:
pets

MRI machines adapt to newest patients:
pets 09/07/2004 03:37 AM
Boston Globe Sep 7 2004 7:33AM GMT

Global Positioning Systems Tracks Lost
Pets

Global Positioning Systems Tracks Lost
Pets 06/06/2005 12:04 AM
GlobalPetFinder Provides Security to Pet Owners [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

Italians Face Jail Terms for Abandoning
Pets (Reuters)

Italians Face Jail Terms for Abandoning
Pets (Reuters) 07/08/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - Italy is finally cracking down on the many fickle pet owners who dump their cat or dog on the roadside as they head to the beach for their summer vacation.

AnimalAttraction.com to Host Party Like
A Dog Event in Washington DC for Singles
Who Love Pets

AnimalAttraction.com to Host Party Like
A Dog Event in Washington DC for Singles
Who Love Pets 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
AnimalAttraction.com to host “Party Like A Dog” event for Washington D.C.-area singles who love pets and their canine companions on Saturday, August 28 from 2-6 p.m. at Buffalo Billiards, 1330 19th Street, N.W. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

New Realism in Virtual Pets Paves the
Way for High-Tech Companions of the
Future

New Realism in Virtual Pets Paves the
Way for High-Tech Companions of the
Future 08/05/2004 03:15 AM
Clear Crown Studios today unveiled the most realistic computerized pets to date, marking a key milestone on the road to personal robots like NS-5 of “I, Robot.” [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Telegraph | News | Woman who turns
pets into pillows faces death threats

Telegraph | News | Woman who turns
pets into pillows faces death threats 04/11/2005 08:07 PM
Woman who turns pets into pillows faces death threats .. "Never pick up road-kill on the first date" .. death threats from animal rights activists

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"Fine Art"

"Fine Art" 04/14/2004 10:32 PM

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