Shrink in the Kitchen

The show last night at the Regattabar in The Charles Hotel was wonderful.  I love her music, you might, too.  She coaxes joy from what I think of as fundamentally a sad instrument that invokes flight and loss: Think of …

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Last night I was invited to attend the 10th anniversary celebration of Swissnex-Boston, which is the world’s only science-technology consulate.  I never go to these things, but as a Swissophile and a lover of science, I could not pass it …

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Drinking sugared soda causes excessive weight gain and can lead to a plethora of medical illnesses–chiefly, diabetes–so of course–of course–I am 100% behind Mayor Bloomberg’s effort to curtail soda consumption.  The only sentient creatures opposed to the mayor’s …

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It’s Wednesday, the Food sections are out, and as usual I feel like a curmudgeon and a surly one at that after reading articles and recipes in them.

Take the vindaloo recipe in today’s Boston Globe.  No marinade, no …

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