at the sign of The Pink Pig

The Local East Village: New Horizons For The Pink Pig

[A Pig at Large: by Kim Davis, September 15, 2010]

The man behind the "Wilfrid" mask, Kim Davis, has been taking some time away from pigging over the last couple of months, running up to the launch of a new hyperlocal news website, a collaborative effort between the New York Times and the New York University Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism.

I am Community Editor on the project, and you also risk reading yet more of my writing, if you follow the Local here.

Some Foodbuzzers: The Last Of SF

 [A Pig at Large by Wilfrid:  November 23, 2009]

I just wanted to wrap up on the subject of the Foodbuzz blogging shindig in SF by linking to just some of the characters I met.

Impossible to link to everyone, but if you want to contemplate the ocean of online food writing out there, dive in here.

More Foodbuzzing: A Final Feast

[A Pig at Large by Wilfrid:  November 14,2009]

I knew we weren't really lost, but I thought it would have done no harm to pause for refreshment and regrouping at a bar called the Bonanza in an otherwise pitch-black back street south of San Francisco central.

After all, the bar advertised a lingerie show, and I have always been interested in fashion.  But no.

More Foodbuzzing: Olive Oil For Breakfast?

[A Pig at Large by Wilfrid:  November 13, 2009]

Olive oil for breakfast?  Why not?

Okay, maybe not the best idea, but you see it had been a late night.  I had fallen into conversation at the bar of Vesuvio with a lifetime resident of North Beach who, it turned out...

More Foodbuzzing: SF Street Food

[A Pig at Large:  November 12, 2009]

So there I was, just over a week ago, pleasantly buzzing on Iron Horse fizz, and set to move from the opening drinks at the Foodbuzz convention across the street to the Ferry Building where a series of the city's best street vendors were laying out supper.

Yes, the first thing one found was cold beer and a menu.  Then, a little further along the passageway at the front of the building...

Dateline San Francisco: Get Your Foodbuzz On

[A Pig at Large:  November 10, 2009]

Did Foodbuzz hold a food blogging convention, someone just asked me?  Oh yes they did, and I was one of some two hundred and fifty attendees.

I think Midtown Lunch and I formed the entire New York delegation, exemplifying quality rather than quantity.  The west coast was well represented, but so was Texas, and there were writers present from Alaska and Australia too.

Where's My Pig? (Blog Style This Week)

[A Pig at Large by Wilfrid:  November 9, 2009]

Back from the Foodbuzz food blog shindig in San Francisco late last night, I do find myself running way behind with everything.  A very good time it was, and this week I am just going to do it blog-style - as seems appropriate, and put up posts and pictures whenever I can.

Keep checking back.

The End Of Paris: The Louvre And The Unicorn

[A Pig at Large by Wilfrid: June 8, 2009]

I just wanted to throw out a couple of final Paris tips before we're done.  I apologize if the first is obvious.

Scroll down for the unicorn.

Paris: Kandinsky's Outer Spaces

[A Pig at Large by Wilfrid: April 27, 2009]

I couldn't fathom the Beaubourg.  You know, the centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou - or the Richard Rodgers pile with the pink pipes sticking out, which I could almost touch from the window of my rental apartment.

Scroll down for Asger Jorn

A Pig In Paris: Spring 2009

[At Pig at Large by Wilfrid:  April 20, 2009]

I will always have Paris.  With rumors that the Titanic sails at dawn, and domestic prospects rarely gloomier, it seemed appropriate to return to the city of lights for a few days of inexcusable profligacy, over-consumption, and indulgence.

The trip was also a celebration of a milestone for me.  While I look forward, of course, to all tomorrow's parties, I fear the author is right who said "Never again will we drink so young."