[Pink Pig Time Machine: October 20, 2016]
Ah, mid-October, grey and melancholy. But brightened up ten years ago by some casual eats and a couple of good stage shows.
Literature was in the air too, as I began attending a Robert Musil reading group led by Burton Pike at the Mercantile Library (now the Center for Fiction).
Professor Pike had been the first English language writer to publish a critical book on Musil and The Man Without Qualities--back in 1961: he described it to me, self-deprecatingly, as a "young man's book." It was a pleasure in the fall and winter of 2006/7 to re-read the novel under his direction. Rather, to read the new English edition on which he had collaborated as editor and co-translator. Oh, and I hosted a live poetry reading too, my diary says, upstairs at The Duplex.
One upscale meal that week, omakase at Sushi Yasuda, seated at the master's station. The highlights of the long meal were comparative tastings of sardine, Japanese and Spanish mackerel, the oyster nigiri, and freshwater trout from Idaho.
Three notable lunches: brisket sandwich at Virgil's; the burger at Wolfgang's Steakhouse (Park Avenue location)--it has a strangely fine grind, but I was told I was unlucky; and sliders at Dash Dogs from the Tides guys on the Lower East Side.
Jollyship at SpiegelTent
Sushi Yasuda sardine/spanish mackerel/Japanese mackerel oyster sushi freshwater trout from Idaho
Otto lunch bruschetta lilies, spag carbonara, margerita
Pedro's Super nachos con perniz, steak tacos
Manolo Garvan
Dash Dogs sliders
Zucco's toulouse sausage and mash
Home: magret sauce Bigarade potato-parsnip mash Langres Tomme de Crayeuse
RISE
Wolfgang's burger
Drowsy chaperone
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