Dream or reality?

Check out this rendering of me sitting on a tomato surrounded by some of my favorite pasta shapes. I have often had dreams like this but I am dying to meet the artist who knew this and brought my dreams to life. If he is a true genius there is a sausage and cheese filling in that ravioli.

Goldman Shacks

Want to know if Goldman Sachs employees get special treatment at Shake Shack? Click through to this great piece of investigatory journalism.

Honey, Get Out the Good Chinet, We Have Company

Some of you have wondered where I have been for the last several months. Some readers emailed asking if I was OK. Others submitted concerns that I may have eaten myself to death. While this would be my preferred way to go, I am alive and well. I was quite busy helping Michael White open Ai Fiori, his newest restaurant in the Setai Fifth Avenue hotel, which kept me from my blogging duties. But before you think I am all schmansy now, I still have not forgotten what "fine dining" means in most of the world, and here in particular in Grand Coulee, Washington.