Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'mom'
My Parents
Certainly any celebration of "The Amateur Gourmet" has to include an acknowledgment of my parents. Many of you, in your kind congratulatory e-mails to me, said the posts with my parents were your favorite posts of them all; and, in many ways, my love of dining out and my eagerness to try new places comes directly from them. In fact, a day doesn't pass when my mom doesn't e-mail something about a new restaurant with the question, "Have you heard of this?" More importantly, the fact that you're reading this at all right now is partially due to my mom. When I got into NYU's Dramatic Writing program, after finishing law school and just a few months into starting this blog, I told my mom I was going to stop blogging. "I want to concentrate fully on playwriting," I told her. "I wouldn't stop blogging," my mom advised. "You never know, it might get even bigger than it is now." And, most definitely, that was some pretty good advice. I'm going to call my parents right now to conduct a little Q&A with them about their history with "The Amateur Gourmet," where it's been and where it's going....
Cuisinart on VHS
A mystery. Part one: my mom calls on Friday night, two weeks ago, and says: "Bloomingdale's is having a sale on appliances; you and Craig really should go there tonight." "Mom, we're not going to Bloomingdale's on a Friday night." Actually, I'm not going to Bloomingdale's any night, it's just not a night time activity. Or, for that matter, a daytime activity. I'm not big on department stores. "Well is there anything you need?" she asks. "Any appliances?" The only appliance I've been desiring, as of late, is a new food processor. My old food processor, a Hamilton Beach model, was purchased from Target six years ago for $15 and is cracked on all sides. So a new food processor would be nice. "Ok," said mom. "Let me get it for you." How could I say no?...
The Proud Mother
