At some point in between drinking beer, whiskey, and White Russians (pace Aaron, pace) with Sodblog’s Admin istrator this last Friday, I scribbled down some notes on a napkin while bellied up to the Peacock Alley Bar & Grill, Patterson Hotel, in what is downtown Bismarck, North Dakota. In an attempts to decipher them, [...]

An example of site’s content (seriously, this is worth the five minutes it’ll take to read):
Two white people from the Somerville, MA created an organization called “TEAL: Typo Eradication Advancement League,” and vowed to travel across the country fixing typos.  This is especially interesting since every other time two late 20s white males have traveled across the [...]

Because we are very much influenced by our environment (or the hyper-local environment), I had to modify Fergus Henderson’s Welsh toasted cheese recipe just a bit, using what was in-house rather than making a special trip to the store. Instead of Coleman’s English mustard powder (who the hell has that on hand?), I used [...]

For whatever reason, I set out on an afternoon mission to find and purchase a reasonably priced cast iron skillet. I stopped first at T.J. Maxx, and found what we call Jack Shit for skillets. But it would only take two tries, as the next place, Kohl’s, I located a perfect model: [...]

Nicholas Carr recently said we’re (yes, the Royal We) too connected to the media these days. This idea glares at me every time I decide to enter what passes for a Drinking Warehouse: a high-ceiling echo-chamber with twenty-four different televised sporting events, juke-box blaring, everyone at the said tables text-messaging one and all, and [...]

Last Wednesday I called a good friend Louis (aka, “Lou”) to inform him that I would, in fact, be arriving at his place to partake in the martinis we had been talking about since, oh, they came up during a discussion about Bernard DeVoto and the history of the American West (maybe I’ll write a [...]

I truly meant to get to preparing this dish some time ago, the recipe coming from Fergus Henderson, Nose to Tail Eating. This D-Day evening, however, Operation Overlord was launched, and while channeling Ike and Patton, I prepared what Anthony Bourdain has called his death row meal (what he’d want before the cyanide was [...]

“Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America”(1)
A recent glance at the results of a computer generated search for the entry “Thomas Jefferson Biography,” indicates that it is increasingly difficult — if not impossible — to say anything “new” about the third president of the United States.(2) Indeed, in reading any new biography of Thomas Jefferson, [...]