Things I Have Heard or Imagined
In this edition of Haute Plates, I present to you a series of items I think may be of interest with regard to food and dining in our fair city. Item: In August, recently opened Italian restaurant Avo will present…
Haute Plates - July 2015
Sometimes You Just Cook
I have spent three days preparing a meal. I have done this more than once. However, these meals were prepared when I was in college, law school or married but without children. I am an outlier where cooking is concerned.…
Cocktales
We’re all adults here, aren’t we? I mean, I allow for the possibility that some of you are under the age of 21, but if you’re reading this column I hereby grant you “adult” status. *Because all of you, dear…
Reminiscing
I’ve been thinking a lot about things as they existed in July 2005, and then things as they existed through around October or November 2006. The prism for this reflection has been posts I wrote on my former website, accessed…
Episode 429, In Which Your Author Realizes His Discontent Remains Vibrant And Spring-Like Year-Round
There is a line written by W. Shakespeare that comes to my mind every year around this time. It’s from Richard III, and it’s the first sentence of the soliloquy that starts the play: “Now is the winter of our…
