Caine Blog

Computer is broken, sitting in the shop like dead weight.  No posts.  But I had to be roused from my postless coma to mention how shitty the following NYT piece is.  Entitled “12 Year Old’s a Food Critic, and the Chef Loves It,” this is the worst piece of journalism for the entire month of [...]

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Had only one day to try some of Fergus Henderson’s menu items at Momofuku Noodle Bar.  Henderson is the chef at London’s St. John restaurant, has earned renown for using offal, and last night completed a one-night-only guest appearance at Momofuku.  Whaddya know, a lot of offal last night - on the menu, if not [...]

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It’s always nice to see Carleton folks take the things they did at school and, upon graduation, kick them up a notch.  Gospel Gossip is still killing Minneapolis, and now some assorted music-minded former Carls have started a band, Dinosaur Feathers, that aims to rock the face off of Brooklyn and beyond. They’re not bad [...]

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“What the fuck is going on, Tanya?  No really, what the fuck?”
-Prince & Broadway, 4:00pm

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An odd night, right before the rain.

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Crucial addendum: yesterday, for the first time since graduating college, I had a burrito from Chipotle.  It was so fucking good - so much better than the mediocre burritos I deal with on a near-daily basis - that I feel the need now to assert this chain’s superiority, to celebrate their innovations, and above all [...]

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I recently saw the bill from my visit to Hawaiian Tropic Zone sitting in a file folder, getting ready to be expensed.  That made me happy, as did my visit to the perplexing, exceedingly tacky, and surreal place that is the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, “The Hottest Place on Earth.”

Indeed.  Hawaiian Tropic Zone melds two completely [...]

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