Todd Terwilliger » new jersey http://www.toddterwilliger.com Web designer and developer, technical writer, and general man about town. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Restaurant Week: A Three Course Prix Fixe War http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2009/03/12/restaurant-week-a-three-course-prix-fixe-war/ http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2009/03/12/restaurant-week-a-three-course-prix-fixe-war/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:24:51 +0000 Todd http://www.toddterwilliger.com/?p=1157 Brooklyn’s edition of restaurant week begins in a mere eleven days. I am fairly certain that preparations at the participating restaurants are well underway all across the Burrough: colored chalk stockpiled, chalkboards prepped, special menus printed on special menu cards with special menu typefaces. The excitement, if not quite palpable, adds a certain unidentifiable odor to the air. Yet, beneath the surface, there is a black tide sloughing across the gastronomic landscape. There is a war coming. Make no mistake: it will be a war.

I am not here to assign blame. There have been crimes on both sides. There have been enough casualties, enough victims and villains. It’s time to talk peace. My message is love. My message is love.

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]]> Brooklyn’s edition of restaurant week begins in a mere eleven days. I am fairly certain that preparations at the participating restaurants are well underway all across the Burrough: colored chalk stockpiled, chalkboards prepped, special menus printed on special menu cards with special menu typefaces. The excitement, if not quite palpable, adds a certain unidentifiable odor to the air. Yet, beneath the surface, there is a black tide sloughing across the gastronomic landscape. There is a war coming. Make no mistake: it will be a war.

I am not here to assign blame. There have been crimes on both sides. There have been enough casualties, enough victims and villains. It’s time to talk peace. My message is love. My message is love.

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This is the kind of day that makes a feasible option out of the normally infeasible cafeteria. It was also taco day. The cafeteria management has the taco bar set up all askew, though maybe I shouldn’t complain- I’m in New York not Texas. However, it doesn’t take a culinary logician to see where the whole setup had gone horribly wrong.

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]]> Yesterday was the kind of day that people talk about when they say this was that kind of day. New Jersey disappeared early behind a bank of gray soup. I could only barely make out a few strong lights from the far side of the Hudson, beady Mothman eyes burning through the haze.

This is the kind of day that makes a feasible option out of the normally infeasible cafeteria. It was also taco day. The cafeteria management has the taco bar set up all askew, though maybe I shouldn’t complain- I’m in New York not Texas. However, it doesn’t take a culinary logician to see where the whole setup had gone horribly wrong.

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