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Ed Levine's Serious Diet

Ed Levine to my Mother:

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Domaine 547

Domaine 547 is a good place to buy wine. Once you buy wine Jill (the proprietress) gets a feeling for what you like and makes recommendation (and sometimes inventory decisions!) as a result. Better, she's got a thoughtful (low volume!) blog. And she's got good taste!

Jill's six resolutions for the store could apply to any improving business (or blogger!). The list is below, but it's worth reading her post in it's entirety.

1. Blog more,
2. Read more,
3. Expand inventory,
4. Focus on value,
5. Get to know other bloggers better,
6. Take more pictures!

Breakfast

Chris' Lunch

Hezbollah Tofu, as announced on Serious Eats:

Me: It would be really funny to veganize Anthony Bourdain's recipes.

Another person: We should make and sell a zine, then donate the proceeds to a vegan charity.

So many things are wonderful about this, perhaps most wonderful is the emergence of Serious Eats as a place for culture hackers to announce their work.

omg giant soup dumpling

omg giant soup dumpling
Originally uploaded by yi.

I would rather eat my own shoes than Two Boots pizza.

A Tuna Meltdown :

Here in the miraculous roiling currents of the Mudhole, 17 miles southeast of Manhattan, and further out at hotspots like the Dip, off Montauk, tuna hunt squid and speed at 30 miles per hour alongside whales, porpoises and sea turtles. It is the wildest display of unbridled nature a New York sport fisherman like myself can ever hope to see.

But for those of us who think tuna fishing is an undeniable rite of fall, things are looking deniable.

Best Gelato in Bologna

Robyn's Guide to Gelato in Bologna. That's good blog!

1608 words on Gelato and not one use of the adjective "tangy." "Tangy" is the "tastes like chicken" of food blogging. Food bloggers say something is tangy when they're already thinking about the next meal, or are simply out of adjectives.

Ed Levine: I love bread baskets, don't you?

Yes.