Monthly Archives: June 2019

I got on my bike Saturday morning and rode to Eppel’s on Roosevelt. Lynne asked if I wanted the combination omelet and grits like always and I said of course I did. She laughed and told a customer at the counter she knows she’s still got when she can remember my order fifteen years afterContinue reading “Reelin’ in the Years”

Boris Fishman was in town a few months ago to promote his Soviet memoir with recipes called Savage Feast. He gave a talk at Columbia College at the invitation our mutual friend, Don De Grazia, who’s taught writing there for ions. I’ve gotten to know Fishman a little since reviewing his previous book a few years back. He’s one ofContinue reading “Savage Feast”