Archive for the 'Food' Category


Re-Grillo’s Pickles

I’m amazed but not surprised to see you talking about Grillos pickles! I met Travis Grillo back in 2008 when he first started selling pickle spears (two spears for $1) in downtown Boston. Working first from his car, and then setting up a pickle cart, he used his family’s recipe that was simply amazing. I […]

Grillo’s Pickles

Home All it took was a push from my nutritionist. (Of course I have a nutritionist, I live in California! No, seriously, I go to the nutritionist because I have insanely high cholesterol when untreated. But now with a combination of Crestor and Zetia Boston Heart tells me my numbers are very low, in the […]

Anajak Thai

Anajak: https://www.anajakthai.com What kind of crazy, f*cked up world do we live in where the best Thai restaurant in Los Angeles is in the San Fernando Valley? You’ve got to know, the Valley used to be the pits. Maybe you could be from there, but you certainly didn’t want to live there in the seventies, […]

Re-Cauliflower Pizza

I always try to avoid the impulse to write back to you, because I know you get a lot of both really smart people and a few crazies writing to you. But I’m almost always tempted to write back. (I grew up in the New York area during the ‘70s, and did college radio, so […]