Chanterelles and Day Lilies Available, Briefly

By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: July 19, 2010

A little rain, and out pop the chanterelles in the woods near Michael and Linda Hoffman’s Honey Hollow Farm in Middleburgh, N.Y. Mr. Hoffman cultivates some mushrooms, but not the little golden, nutty-tasting chanterelles that he finds in the wild. More

Bourdain

Cook’s Tour
By CHRISTINE MUHLKE

Anthony Bourdain was exceptionally well positioned to bang out “Kitchen Confidential” in 2000: he’d spent 28 years behind restaurant stoves and had a couple of noirish novels to his name. The memoir exposed the darkest corners of New York’s kitchens and dining rooms. Now, after 10 years as a food-world celebrity and BFF of top chefs, he’s even better positioned to dish it out to the industry and its four-star hype machine. Unfortunately, as the title of his new essay collection, “Medium Raw,” warns, he gives it to us half-cooked. More

chianti

Chianti Classicos With an Identity Crisis
By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: July 19, 2010

THE issue was staring us right in the face, a dozen times over. We were tasting Chianti Classico riservas, which theoretically are the best Chianti Classicos each producer has to offer, wines worthy of the extra aging that the law requires in order to be designated “riserva.” More

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Air Fares

There's some nice air fares hiding out in September. Southwest is advertising, and it looks like they're not the only ones.

The amazing annals

Obsessions are such sweet somethings.

When I switch to USI Wireless, the installer recommended I move the house's wireless router away from the USI wireless router. Something about interference and some such. So, I moved the house's wireless router up to the servant's quarters. Instead of making it easier for the DVD player to connect to the internet, it made it more difficult. And my main computer didn't have a wireless connection, so I started cruising Slickdeals.net for cheap N USB dongles, and I bought several, which worked just fine on the other computers in the house, but not very well with Windoz 7 64-bit. Then I bought something from MicroCenter, which worked just as well, and I took it back. Then another cheap dongle went on sale and I bought it. It too, didn't work, although it claimed to be Windoz 7 64-bit compliant. Recently, slickdeals.net had a good price on an Asus internal wireless card, so off I went and bought that. I put it in and, amazingly, it works. Or at least it appears to, because in the interim, I brought the wireless router back down to the office and plugged the motherboard's second rj-45 port into the goddamn wireless router with a network cable quite some time ago.