Category Archives: Cuisine

Impostor #1: Tikka Goes to India

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Tony

Back in the heyday of the dearly departed Anglo-Japanese food culture magazine Eat, I wrote a regular monthly brief (among other things) identifying dishes that profess a false “nationality.” Herewith, the first entry, on Chicken Tikka Masala, Britain’s national dish: … Continue reading →

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Chowhounding With Jim

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Tony

Originally published three years ago in the sadly now-defunct Japanese food-culture magazine Eat Like the celestial creatures for which it is named, Angel’s Share is invisible even to the patrons of the unremarkable East Village sushi bar in which it … Continue reading →

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Of Fries and Getting Fried: The Allure of Death Row Menus

Posted on July 1, 2005 by Tony

This article appeared on TIME.com in August of 2000. Note, the Texas Death Row Final Meal request page has since been taken down by the State’s Department of Correctional Services Extract: Just two weeks, ago, for example, murderer Juan Soria … Continue reading →

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Colonel Sanders Keeps His Head

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Tony

Published in the sadly departed Japanese food culture magazine Eat in May 2001 This time around, the Colonel kept his head. Local police in China’s Hunan province had been braced for the worst during the Hainan spy-plane standoff earlier this … Continue reading →

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