Category Archives: food

kitchen adventure

Posted on Sunday, 2011 February 27 by Anton

Saturday I made chili, varying Grandmother’s recipe by replacing part of the chili powder with curry powder. It was not a disaster.

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where’s my fix?

Posted on Friday, 2009 July 10 by Anton

For two or three years I was never without a supply of navel oranges, because the Australian (or before that Chilean) crop came in just as the California crop was ending; but the antipodean goodies have not (yet) shown up … Continue reading →

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the view from in here

Posted on Sunday, 2007 December 16 by Anton

I suspect my new glasses have more chromatic aberration than the old. In my computer background pattern, a fractal with lots of intense colors, the red seems to stand out in front of the blue. In unrelated news, we had … Continue reading →

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tip of the day

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 August 08 by Anton

Madhu, on his way out of town, treated me to a tasty buffet lunch at Turmeric in Sunnyvale. I got there ahead of him and had time to loiter in the street, feasting my nose; the whole of Murphy Avenue … Continue reading →

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a good pie

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 January 09 by Anton

Formative years in a college town in Illinois left me with definite opinions of what a pizza ought to be. I am pleased to report that Pizz’a Chicago in Santa Clara (the apostrophe is meant to suggest a pun with … Continue reading →

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divided by two common languages

Posted on Friday, 2006 December 15 by Anton

Me: “Hamachi sashimi.” Cashier: “It depends on what kind of fish, sir.”

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