Philadelphia has a well-established reputation for grit. It worked out well that I spent the ages of 20 to 21 there being flat broke. I had no phone but the payphone on the corner, no tv, no bed, just a roll mat and a couple of chairs found on the street. My roommate, appropriately nicknamed Crumb—and…
Month: January 2016
Arepas Recipe & Juaneco y su Combo
¡A COMEEEER! This menacing screech (meaning time to eat) followed by sequential ear-piercing claps was the rude awakening my father saddled my sisters and me with on weekend mornings throughout our youth; I can still feel the shivers going down my spine. In order to put an end to it, we’d carry ourselves downstairs like zombies to…
Salmon Tartare Recipe & Kamasi Washington
My strongest New Year’s Eve association was created back in 1999 at Times Square. My father and I bundled up for the sub-zero temperatures and, with much determination but little sense, headed down there around five. When you secure a spot you are corralled in by police barricades and you can’t leave if you want to…
THE MUSICAL INGREDIENT 