The other day our wives were both out of town (one in Puerto Rico and the other in the Philippines). Instead of hunkering down while they were away, Rob enterprisingly convinced a friend of ours to watch the kids one night. We rang Kang and Mark to join us and headed out for a night [...]
Read more >>My son has been sick the last couple of days and wanted some juice. We were out of everything but, oddly, pomegranate juice (a small Odwalla bottle). Not sweet enough for the little guy, so I added a bit of Rose’s grenadine to it. Then I thought, isn’t real grenadine made from pomegranate juice? And [...]
Read more >>The return trip to The Hungry Cat last night did not disappoint. I had the sea urchin appetizer, whose presentation was impressive. The top 1/3 of a whole urchin was removed and served on a platter of ice with olive oil crackers, fancy salt and a spoon. It was very fresh…the spines of the urchin [...]
Read more >>I’m spending the week in Santa Barbara and had the pleasure of eating and drinking at The Hungry Cat. The restaurant is small and informal, with a menu focused on seafood. I had clams with chorizo, a combination I first encountered ten years ago at Olive’s (Todd English’s fine restaurant in Boston). It was fantastic [...]
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