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Confessions of a foodish man

A change
Filed under: media, new york, other, san francisco, wine

As you might have seen one place or another, I’m changing jobs. Specifically, I left MSNBC.com last Friday after one last column, and after just 10 months back in New ...

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Posted 110 weeks ago by jon
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Fresh water bagels?
Filed under: baked goods, lagniappes, manhattan, new york, restaurants, reviews

Seen at my local supermarket. What sort of bait do you use for them? Bruni digs the food at Robuchon, not so much the cult of personality, but he tolerates ...

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Posted 110 weeks ago by jon
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R.W. Apple, 1934-2006
Filed under: media, new york, other

After a fine birthday meal last night at Masa, today opened on a far more somber note, with news that Johnny Apple is gone. This was not a huge surprise to ...

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Posted 111 weeks ago by jon
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Cameras at table
Filed under: media, restaurants, san francisco, service

Essential? A blogger’s necessity? Total nuisance? Tacky? Read on. (To any Chronicle readers who may be reading here for the first time … welcome!)

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Posted 112 weeks ago by jon
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Lagniappes
Filed under: california, lagniappes, other, restaurants, san francisco, service, wine

Laura Cunningham, Thomas Keller’s life partner and the service half of the Keller Empire equation, is leaving the French Laundry and Keller’s other venues. [S.F. Chronicle] Everyone is getting into Alcoa’s glass closures, ...

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Posted 112 weeks ago by jon
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Down in Dixie
Filed under: dixie, other, wine, wine reviews

So what to do when you’re in North Carolina for a few days with food on the brain? Eat barbecue, barbecue and more barbecue, of course. Stop by Price’s Chicken ...

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Posted 112 weeks ago by jon
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Lagniappes
Filed under: france, lagniappes, new york, wine

Napa’s Quintessa tries sunblock for grapes. Biodynamic sunblock. [Decanter] Rain, rain, go away. Fall on Bordeaux some other day. [Decanter] Pete Wells weighs in on his new gig as NYT ...

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Posted 113 weeks ago by jon
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Two wins at AFJ
Filed under: barbecue, dixie, media, other, pizza

It was a happy, barbecue-filled weekend down in North Carolina. I’m honored to say that I received both first and second place in the Association of Food Journalists’ 2006 awards ...

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Posted 113 weeks ago by jon
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Lagniappes
Filed under: france, japanese, lagniappes, other, pizza, queens, restaurants, reviews

Frank Bruni finds a reason to really be annoyed with Woodside’s Sapori d’Ischia. Though we had found many (the marks of a pizza screen on a presumably wood-fired pizza, for ...

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Posted 115 weeks ago by jon
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Parker’s picks
Filed under: wine, wine reviews

I’ve stayed away from the crystal ball-gazing about who would possibly replace Pierre Rovani and Daniel Thomases after their departure from Robert Parker’s realm. It’s a fun parlor game for wine ...

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Posted 115 weeks ago by jon
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