Category Archives: Eating

Here we celebrate the best kind of food enjoyment: eating somebody else’s cooking, whether it be in a fine dining establishment or a hole in the wall.

Healthy mail order meat from ButcherBox

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

I tried ButcherBox because of a special offer from ChefSteps (which may still be available… read on). I give them a thumbs up for shopping if you’re in an area where healthy meat (humanely raised and free from antibiotics and … Continue reading →

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Wok-Fired Croutons!

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

Turns out the wok is the perfect vessel for making crispy, garlicky croutons. Who knew? The method and benefits: *Start by heating olive to the smoking point, turn down a bit, add chopped garlic and toss, away from the heat, … Continue reading →

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Recipe: German-Style Head Cheese (Souse)

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

[Please also try our Amish-Style Pickled Tripe, which is as good a pickled variety meat as you are likely to find.] A friend gifted me half a pig’s head so, naturally, I decided to make head cheese. It was already … Continue reading →

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Burger Boo

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

My blogging colleague Daniel B had an interesting idea: a tasting tour of seasonal burgers served at the food stands of upstate New York’s Capital District. Winterizing is expensive in this harsh climate, so many food places open only from … Continue reading →

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Bella Viva Orchards: the Steph Curry of dried fruit

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

The other day I was in San Francisco and stopped by the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market to, as is my custom, stock up on dried fruit from Bella Viva Orchards. Sadly, they were out of unsulfured white nectarines. This prompted … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s Prime Sweets Button

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

What if you could press a button and, two days later, a box of delicious ribs and brisket showed up at your door? And each box was from one of America’s finest pitmasters? Would that be something you could get … Continue reading →

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Why I hate restaurant coupons

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

I’ve pretty much stopped using restaurant coupons—those pay-in-advance online purchases through Groupon, LivingSocial or LocalFlavor which typically take 50% off the price of your meal. Part of the problem is the bad juju fostered by LocalFlavor, which I’ve written about … Continue reading →

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Live Uni: one and done

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

On my recent trip to San Francisco, I indulged in a bucket-list checkoff: ordering live uni from Santa Barbara Fish Market. Overnight shipping is a ridiculously cheap $9.95, to California addresses only. (Elsewhere it’s $49.95.) The sea urchins themselves are … Continue reading →

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How to order steak in a seafood restaurant

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

Yelp has a lot of good insights, but there are a few bozos lurking here and there. Among them are people who go to a restaurant that is known for one particular type of cuisine, order something completely different, then … Continue reading →

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Albany shows how to do Restaurant Week right

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Burnt My Fingers

Local Upstate NY chef Dominic Colose writes a lively blog in which, among other topics, he rails against restaurant weeks. He feels they pack his establishment with loutish bottom feeders (my words; he’s more polite) who swoop in for the … Continue reading →

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