I second this

annoyance.

Making McGee

look like McGoo.

Confirming the obvious

Beware "healthy" cooks.

Cauliflower

as fondue. 

Rather fascinating

How a blind cook cooks. 

(Filched from the Boy Wonder) 

One advantage

of growing up poor: You get goat out of the way early.  

Let 'em eat caviar

I would ask who these sociopaths are who are working for McLame, but after seven years I think I have a clue. 

Same Boy Wonder has one of the more insightful thoughts ever on cooking, too: Bullet point 2.  

Not sure the wingnuts

will get it. 

(Filched because the postman let us down on such a big Monday.) 

A pinch of dollar

Not just clever but a good primer on tomato sauce -- butter is key. 

(Gleaned from the metaGleaners) 

Here's a concept

Evaluating recipes by actually following them. Slick stuff. 

(Gleaned from The Role Model) 

I ate too many as a kid

-- and grudgingly -- but apparently catfish are worth eating nowadays. 

Green at last, green at last

I never had this capability at the base camp, but I feel compelled to share the latest happy harbinger of summer cooking, after the return of Blue Moon fish to the Greenmarket: Keith is back for the season this Saturday and next Wednesday, on Union Square but up where the performance artists usually are. When I got the postcard I realized how much I give up garlic for winter because nothing is as good as the rocambole he grows (and I have tried everything Fairway imports, including the smoked stuff). Be there or eat acrid.

And I thought a garlic roaster was ridiculous

I'm not saying where, but we used to say editing the progenitor of this craze was like playing Whac-a-Mole. Clearly, we lost.