Heaven on Earth

Monday, September 19, 2016 In the 1950s and 1960s, the label Made In Japan was typically associated with cheap and shoddy merchandise, befo...

Monday, September 12, 2016 Serious Eats has been a reliable web site for fressers like me.  In looking over recent articles, I found that ...

Monday, September 5, 2016 Neither Rick nor Ilsa actually spoke the exact phrase, "Play it again, Sam" in  Casablanca . Similarl...

Monday, August 29, 2016 I think an inevitable attribute of being a Jew is suspicion.  It may be genetically transferred to us, or merely ...

Monday, August 22, 2016 Three headlines from the New York Times (on-line edition) combine to tell a story about current affairs in Americ...

August 15, 2106 What a weekend.  New York City had "real feel" temperatures of 106 to 110 degrees, with actual temperatures re...

Monday, August 8, 2016 A recent book review by Marilyn Stasio, the  New York Times  crime/mystery specialist, refers to the University of...