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So in the land of coronary disease in a cup, I discovered a little secret.

If you think you’re being healthy by foregoing the Wienerschnitzel or Sausage Salad and ordering the Tiroler G’röstl which is described as “Roasted Potatoes” on the menu, [...]

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Something I hope to oneday soon put to the test is the following claim:
Seafood from the “Croatian” side of the Adriatic is superior to seafood harvested in the waters closer to the “Italian” side.
Venetian chefs are rumored to favor seafood pulled from the waters off of Croatia due to the fact that the sea bottom [...]

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It is May Day around the world today, and to celebrate what is here in Austria termed “the workers’ holiday”, I will do my best to do absolutely no work.
We’ve had a miserable weekend, weather wise. I don’t know what’s up, but it really sucked the life out of our three-day weekend. Regardless, it [...]

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As mentioned previously on this site, my friend Val is in town for a week or two as part of her ‘round-the-world trip. She came here directly from Prague, but was in Budapest before that, and SE Asia before that.
Tonight, we decided to dine at 7 Stern Bräu, a brewery and restaurant right near [...]

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One of my favorite restaurants in Atlanta, Mi Barrio, seems to be on the verge of getting its beer and wine license:

Application of Mi-Barrio Restaurant, Inc., d/b/a Mi-Barrio Mexican Restaurant, Jesus Lopez, Agent. License requested to operate a restaurant liquor beer and wine consumed at 571 Memorial Drive. (new app/new loc) NPU-W CD#1 [...]

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I’ve been remiss in alerting Halfasses to my Metblog posts
Besides Flickr, this is where I tend to do most of my blogging these days.

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Those who have been keeping up with the Boudin discussion, are sure to note that several individuals have left comments requesting a price list and begging for the honor to give me their credit card number (or better yet, a money order) in hopes that I would ship them some of my excellent, tasty Boudin. [...]

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We decided it was time to let Maple try to feed herself.
After months of “finger food”, Maple seemed very interested in the idea. Modern Parenthood™ being what it is, this required gear. So I went online and purchased [...]

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I just discovered Alton Brown’s Blog, where he dropped this little bit of science:

We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. We hand our lives over to [...]

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Tonx.org delivers a beverage manifesto which I endorse whole-heartedly with limited exception. From this declaration:

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I have uploaded a photo to my recipe for Ragu Bolognese. I can’t take full credit for the recipe, of course, as it is a Frankenstein’s Monster sort of recipe in which I have utilized bits and pieces of other recipes as well as the advice of Halfass readers.
Lately I’ve been using [...]

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Are you in the market for BisonPro? I can’t quite afford it yet, so I may wait ‘til they release it with an Open Source license. Then I’ll re-write it in PHP and host it on Halfass Hosting, charging a monthly fee. I’ll be the first in the new BSP (Buffalo Service [...]

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Last night, to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary, my wife and I dined at my favorite restaurant in Atlanta,

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For those who haven’t been following the commentary on this entry, I’ll update you.
I posted a brief, but widely-linked, entry on what I think is the best boudin from the best boudin shop in the world: Boudin King. An intrepid reader and boudin afficionado by the name of Steven P. Keese agreed with my [...]

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