The Weekly Meat

A Martini is a simple drink that features a splash of dry vermouth and a jigger of gin. It is made in a cocktail shaker with ice, and served either up or on the rocks, garnished with olives. If specified, a twist of lemon can be substituted or added as garnish...

Somewhere along the way, shortly after food became not about nutrients but nutritionism, food became about chefs, and restaurants became about not the diners themselves, but the dining experience...

Baseball games that matter After an interminably long season, finally, we are reminded what makes this sport great; what makes Ken Burns, and Bob Costas, and — admit it, you — weepy. Th...

Decidedly vegetarian excuse, I know. More Meat to come, shortly.

I've written before about how we in the U.S. are overly concerned with being number one...

My tastes in booze are fairly well established. I like wine, I like beer, I like liquor. But only certain varieties of each, and I like my drinks to compliment both whatever food I'm having, as well as the weather...

If you set out to write lyrics to start off a punk record, you could scarcely do better than Patti Smith on Horses: "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine..." Her snarl is nuanced and a bit understated, but there is no mistaking that she is not a chick to be trifled with...

P.S. This, despite this.

Call it a mid-life crisis, but recently I decided to take up running seriously for the first time in my life. I've run before, on and off, but never more than once or twice a week. Still, I like it when I do it, and I've toyed with the idea of someday actually training for something...

As we said goodbye I lost a button. I’d been fiddling with it, a loose tooth. It just came off in my hand. I can’t be sure it was completely accidental. But once in my fingers I decided you should have it. I pressed it to your palm and you held it, smiled, put it in your shirt pocket. “B...