Shrink in the Kitchen

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Entries from July 2011

The Critic’s Critic

July 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Commentary

OK, so there I was yesterday, having lunch with a guy I know who owns several wonderful restaurants.  He opened a new place and invited me to lunch to see what I thought of the food and service and setting.  …

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The Palm

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Commentary

Tomorrow’s NY Times has a lovely piece by Sam Sifton on The Palm.  Originally from D.C., the restaurant now has a total of 27 locations, one of which is in Boston, Massachusetts, and that’s where I found myself last Friday …

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Where Are All the Cooks?

July 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Commentary

Restaurant chefs complain that they can’t find decent cooks.
Chef David Chang  tweeted, recently, “Cooks today not as skilled as past generations, labor laws too stringent, not a bad thing but certainly the demise of dining in general.”
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Cooked!

July 23rd, 2011 · 5 Comments · Commentary

We had 4 people over last night.  I don’t like cooking much: Really!  But I prefer it to eating out because of the value, my ability to control what I put into the food, the chance to buy better ingredients …

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