year end: reality is a long game…. (2023)

Recently, La Tour d’Argent, a standard bearer of la grande cuisine since the 1500s – where kings and emperors have feasted, where the fork made its French debut – posted a horrifying video on Instagram of a soufflé being murdered at the table. It was scalped by the server, then disemboweled by the spoonful onto […]

Continue

year end: reality is a long game…. (2023)

Recently, La Tour d’Argent, a standard bearer of la grande cuisine since the 1500s – where kings and emperors have feasted, where the fork made its French debut – posted a horrifying video on Instagram of a soufflé being murdered at the table. It was scalped by the server, then disemboweled by the spoonful onto […]

Continue

do play with your food…

Okay… so I’m a fan of playing with your food – at least have fun with it. Eating, in my opinion, is not supposed to be a regimented exercise. It’s supposed to fulfill something more than just hunger… it should be an adventure. But, I’m not sure how I feel about the sensationalist “high tech” […]

Continue

do play with your food…

Okay… so I’m a fan of playing with your food – at least have fun with it. Eating, in my opinion, is not supposed to be a regimented exercise. It’s supposed to fulfill something more than just hunger… it should be an adventure. But, I’m not sure how I feel about the sensationalist “high tech” […]

Continue

the shooting star heard around the foodie world…

Whoever coined the phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” must have been a food critic, or a chef. Although the papers have not yet gone to press, the almighty Frank Bruni, Food Critic for the New York Times has just shook the food world’s skies with his latest review: “In Air So Rarefied, […]

Continue

the shooting star heard around the foodie world…

Whoever coined the phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” must have been a food critic, or a chef. Although the papers have not yet gone to press, the almighty Frank Bruni, Food Critic for the New York Times has just shook the food world’s skies with his latest review: “In Air So Rarefied, […]

Continue

walking and chewing gum…

I have never (knock on wood) been caught violating the traffic laws. This is partly due to my better-than-average driving skills; but this story makes me think twice about renting a car in England! “At Least She Was Eating Healthy” A Reuters story this week reported that police in Tyneside, England, called in a spotter […]

Continue

walking and chewing gum…

I have never (knock on wood) been caught violating the traffic laws. This is partly due to my better-than-average driving skills; but this story makes me think twice about renting a car in England! “At Least She Was Eating Healthy” A Reuters story this week reported that police in Tyneside, England, called in a spotter […]

Continue

amuse…

Like any good amuse, i hope this post serves to “tease the palate” for the good things (i hope you find them to be good) to come. So, why the “Ulterior Epicure?” Well, ulterior because I choose to remain under a veil of anonymity.* For the purposes of this blog, what I do for a […]

Continue

amuse…

Like any good amuse, i hope this post serves to “tease the palate” for the good things (i hope you find them to be good) to come. So, why the “Ulterior Epicure?” Well, ulterior because I choose to remain under a veil of anonymity.* For the purposes of this blog, what I do for a […]

Continue