Harold Pierce makes the finest fried chicken in the Midwest, maybe the best on earth https://www.seriouseats.com/harolds-fried-chicken-chicago. He deserves his self-appointed title as “Fried chicken king”. He started in ’51, catering mainly to south side black neighborhoods, with his first restaurant at 47th and Kenwood, right at the border of the ghetto and Hyde Park. TheContinue reading “eat Harold’s”
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Chi jazz
Kathy and I never fail to take in some jazz when we come to Chicago. Usually, it’s at the venerable Jazz Showcase in the South Loop or the much older Green Mill in Uptown, way north, sometimes Andy’s in the Near North. Tonight it was Jazz Showcase to experience the irrepressible trumpeter Victor Garcia inContinue reading “Chi jazz”
shameless plug
If you’ve got a Kindle and a spare buck, you can read my new book! Actually, it’s just a 9-page essay about an event from my youth. I thought it was too long and too deep to post on this blog. Here’s the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095BS8VRJ I think Amazon gives me 30 cents. I probably willContinue reading “shameless plug”
tallow, ho!
Blame it on the Rockies. We were at a Colorado Springs bar munching away at some delicious fries, moved to take a second glance at the menu which indicted they’d been fried in beef tallow. Of course! I’d realized just recently that frying is better done in animal fat. Much maligned lard has fewer caloriesContinue reading “tallow, ho!”
make it add up, doc
Those invites from the “predatories”, journals and conferences alike, just keep on coming. For those of you not in academia, a “predatory” journal exists mainly to fleece authors of often astronomical article processing fees (APCs). Journal costs used to be covered by subscriptions and/or support from organizations. With most journal articles now accessed on-line, andContinue reading “make it add up, doc”
Saint Anthony … fired?
Oh, would that it were. But he’s essentially unfireable and the man who might have done it left the oval office last January, and he couldn’t have directly fired any career civil servant, an act that would have had to be accomplished through intermediaries. But the diminutive octogenarian from Brooklyn was once my hero, asContinue reading “Saint Anthony … fired?”
Two triple cheese…
I awoke this morning knowing I was facing a very special day. Another one of those golden anniversaries. They come around pretty frequently at this age. One of the first things I did once I got settled into my blue La-Z-Boy was to fire off e-mails to George Frayne of Gansevoort NY and Bill KirchenContinue reading “Two triple cheese…”
meat!
I love shopping at Meijer’s. None of the three stores in our area is very close, maybe 5 miles or so, but the trip down Platt passes by Bombay Grocers (source of peeled garlic for paste), the dump, and the cheapest gas station in town. Added on todays trip was Gordon Food Services, right acrossContinue reading “meat!”
those vaccines again
This is going to be some hard stuff about the COVID vaccines. It grew from an exchange on a U of M Alumni Society forum. So first I must tell you something about the Alumni Society. Kathy and I became life members of the U of M Alumni Association last June. I believe she andContinue reading “those vaccines again”
a simple dinner
When I awoke around 3 yesterday, the weather report forecast another perfect spring day in AA, 75 degrees and sunny with enough wind later in the day to keep things interesting. Dinner on the deck was a must, so I kicked things off by pulling out of the freezer a couple chunks that arrived fromContinue reading “a simple dinner”
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