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Feb. 5th, 2009
By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: February 4, 2009
LET’S get this out of the way immediately: Barolo is not an inexpensive wine. I acknowledge that. But put that aside for a moment for these very good reasons: Barolo is a great wine, it can be a profound wine, and it is a wine that I love. More
Braised Rabbit, Easier on the Fat
By MELISSA CLARK
Published: January 30, 2009
THERE I was, 9 years old and at the height of my telephone-eavesdropping phase. My parents were having a dinner party, and a guest was summoned to a call.
From my parents’ bedroom, I silently picked up the receiver; it was the guest’s teenage son.
The conversation proceeded dully — a request for permission to do something or other — followed by this juicy tidbit:
The son: “So how’s dinner?”
The dad: “It’s nice, it’s rabbit ragout.”
That’s funny, I thought. What my parents served me from that very same stewpot was chicken.
It was a cutting betrayal and I got pretty perturbed picturing poor Bugs Bunny, carrot in hand, being dismembered and sautéed. More
Recipe: Mustardy Braised Rabbit With Carrots
Don't forget Bambi!
Feb. 5th, 2009 04:13 amPairing | Pasta With Venison and Porcini
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: February 3, 2009
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: February 3, 2009
Back around the time the earth cooled, there was a restaurant, Giordano’s, on West 39th Street near the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Craig Claiborne gave it three stars in his 1968 “New York Times Guide to Dining Out in New York.”
Among the specialties was sautéed beef tenderloin, unusual because its sauce depended on white wine, not red. When I asked the chef about it, he said it was lighter that way. More
Video Chats Overcome Clunkiness
By DAVID POGUE
Published: February 4, 2009
When AT&T demonstrated its video telephone at the 1964 World’s Fair, everyone — including AT&T — pretty much figured that it would be the future. People wouldn’t just hear each other over the phone — they would see each other, too.
What everyone forgot, of course, was a little factor called human nature. People don’t want to be watched on the phone. You don’t want to have to make yourself presentable, to perform or to give up the freedom of multitasking. In the absence of video, you can walk around cleaning, perform small acts of personal grooming, maybe roll your eyes at a stupid comment.
And so here we are, 45 years later, still making audio-only phone calls. Not because of technological limits, but human ones.
So what about Skype?
If you’re under 30 or so, you probably know all about Skype. It’s a free program (Mac, Windows or Linux) that connects you to other people who have Skype. You can type instant messages back and forth, make crystal-clear audio calls, and, yes, even make video calls, provided your computers have webcams or built-in cameras — all without paying a penny. More
Who's that again?
Feb. 5th, 2009 04:25 amThis plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education. And it's a strategy that will be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability, so Americans know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent.
In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.
I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change. They know that we have tried it those ways for too long. And because we have, our health-care costs still rise faster than inflation. Our dependence on foreign oil still threatens our economy and our security. Our children still study in schools that put them at a disadvantage. We've seen the tragic consequences when our bridges crumble and our levees fail. More
The Post claims: The writer is president of the United States. Link
The New Landonists
Feb. 5th, 2009 07:04 amBy Harold Meyerson
Thursday, February 5, 2009; Page
Thursday, February 5, 2009; Page
The leader of the Republican Party was fulminating against the Democratic president's programs. All that government spending, and yet, he said, "the nation has not made the durable progress, either in reform or recovery, that we had the right to expect." The problem was that the president didn't trust the market to right the economy: "The energies of the American economic system will remedy the ravages of depression," he argued.
And then there was that Republican radio ad featuring a couple wondering if they could afford to get married in a nation with so profligate a government. "All those debts!" said Mary. "Somebody is giving us a dirty deal," said John. The ad concluded with a somber narrator saying, "And the debts, like the sins of the fathers, shall be visited upon the children, aye, even unto the third and fourth generations."
The speeches were those of Alf Landon, the Republican presidential nominee of 1936, who turned his campaign into an attack on the New Deal and all its (public) works, including the debts that those works incurred. Despite the speeches and the John-and-Mary ad on his behalf, Alf Landon lost to Franklin Roosevelt by the widest margin in the history of presidential elections, while the congressional Republicans lost to congressional Democrats by a similarly historic margin. More
I should be...
Feb. 5th, 2009 06:47 pmhttp://thetalkies.net/
at the 9:00 pm screening with John Cameron Mitchell, if not the one that starts at 7:00. Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
at the 9:00 pm screening with John Cameron Mitchell, if not the one that starts at 7:00. Hedwig and the Angry Inch.