Best Of

Here is a list of posts that are particularly interesting or funny for those of you who haven’t been following along for a while.

• One Weird Trick To Improve Your Food Photography A semi-viral tirade against over-styled pictures.
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Food A popular diatribe against things I hate in food and food blogging particularly.
• Emu-Egg Cassoulet With Crème Fraiche So much fail, so little time.
• The Spanish Recipe David Mamet on The Food Network!
• Urban Homesteading A tirade against two coincident floats in the fail parade.
• “The Pig Dies At Noon” My New York Magazine-approved account of killing and butchering a pig at a party.
• The Moral Equivalent of Playboy A tirade against the poor taste of Robert Parker.
• Alinea 6/20/09 My account of the 23-course tasting menu chez Achatz.
• Whoreganically Blown The stupid, it burns.
• Rosé FAQ An extremely helpful primer on choosing rosés for your summer drinking pleasure.
• Wok Hai A perfectly innocent tirade causes a mini-shitstorm. My Meme Meme Mine, my follow-up, doubles down on the ranting.
• Livin’ La Vita Povera Something about pasta and progress.
• That Stripper-I mean Hahkey Mahm–Really Liked Me! Sarah Palin steals my heart.
• Mama’s Little Joyboy Got Piggy, Piggy A guest post at Thursday Night Smackdown wherein I take on a recipe by Thomas Keller; the “Grey Poupon” post right before it is also mine, and also pretty good.