Archives:
- In Which I Complain Profusely About The State of Sushi In America
Psst: I hate super-rolls. Caterpillar rolls, dragon rolls, rolls wrapped in eel and stuffed with avocado, rolls wrapped in avocado and stuffed with eel, spicy tuna rolls, spicy crunchy salmon rolls: they all taste exactly the same–which is to say, of avocado. Now, I like avocado as much as anybody, but come on. I am […]
- Aerial Rant and Noodle Soup Odyssey, Part I
I’m starting this entry five and a half hours into a fifteen-hour plane ride. Technology! This is the first plane I’ve ever flown in with an electrical outlet at every seat, not to mention enough computer games (crosswords included) to make a nerd like me want the ride to go on just a little longer. […]
- Boqueria NYC
I don’t know if I had the usual culinary epiphanies when I lived in France. I remember thinking it very strange that everybody bought UHT instead of fresh milk, and that I was eating all that cheese and losing weight like crazy. But then I’d spent most of my life in a French school, surrounded […]
- The Emperor’s New Sorbet
(Sorbet and agar cube of indeterminate flavours, deep-fried membrillo, olive oil cake and pureed green olive and goat’s cheese sauces)
Two recent events conspired to inspire this review of Barcelona’s avant-garde dessert palace, Espai Sucre.
1. Chez Pim’s scathing review of L’Esguard: “quite possibly the worst meal of [her] life”. (Northern Spain is apparently experimental cuisine hell.)
2. […]
