by David | Apr 2, 2014 | eating, urbanism
It was like a glorious summer day – in San Francisco – as I braved the wind-swept plain of Boston City Hall Plaza for another truck lunch. All three scheduled trucks were in attendance, Compliments, Boston’s Baddest Burger, and newcomer...
by David | Apr 1, 2014 | eating, urbanism
On a sunny if windswept fools’ day, I resumed the not so foolish errand of eating at every City Hall Plaza food truck. The schedule is up, three trucks a day by five days of the week, the path is clear. Tuesday’s lineup was said to be The Latin Spoon,...
by David | Feb 12, 2014 | eating
Forecast snow flurries Won’t get me down, I’ve got some Israeli halva
by David | Jan 3, 2014 | eating, science!
It was cold. Really really cold. And snowy. So we opened a bottle of wine. Wouldn’t you? Well, it wasn’t a great bottle of wine, sort of young and rough around the edges. But we’d opened it and we weren’t going out for another one. (Yes, there...
by David | Dec 22, 2013 | eating
The scene: a solstice party. A guest interrogates the host about the soup. “I love this soup! What’s in it?” “Cauliflower, mostly.” “And potatoes?” “No, just cauliflower, broth, garlic, olive oil, rice, and some...
by David | Nov 7, 2013 | design, eating
It’s the week after Halloween, and that means tons of leftover candy. Especially since it’s the stuff you couldn’t palm off on the young extortionists in costume, I usually don’t pay much attention. But this week, somebody left a bunch of Kit...