Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut...
What better way to spend Christmas eve than with friends, downtown, in L.A.'s Chinatown? And without needing one of those stylish government bailouts when the check comes.
Got a bunch of appetizers, two glasses of wine, and fantastic Peking duck at Empress Pavilion. Dinner, with tip, $20 -- and that's per person, for a whole group of people. Parking, $3.50. Like this guy, who I shot through my rainy car window on the road home from dinner, I was just upside-down with glee.
Happy holidays! I just noticed a lot of my tree-hugging cohorts "hate to cut down a Christmas tree." They're literally fretting about it. Um, what? They eat vegetables don't they? Most of them probably eat meat. And they won't cut a tree that's grown to be cut and replanted? We're not talking rain forest here, people. It just strikes me as odd that of all the real everyday things concerned people can do to tread more lightly on the earth, THAT's what they get all up in arms about. Now, I happen to decorate a houseplant, my Norfolk Island pine, but that's because my place is small and I'm pretty lazy about cutting a tree!
Monica at December 25, 2008 6:05 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/12/25/sometimes_you_f.html#comment-1616729">comment from MonicaMy favorite was when I wore a vintage mouton fur coat I bought on eBay and a friend of mine looked at me disparagingly for "wearing fur." She was wearing a suede jacket at the time.
Amy Alkon
at December 25, 2008 9:19 AM
(Psst- Eric, how did the boy do this morning?)
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at December 25, 2008 10:44 AM
Never heard of mouton fur, but wikipedia makes it sound like the animal survives, all we want is the wool.
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at December 25, 2008 10:47 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/12/25/sometimes_you_f.html#comment-1616762">comment from Crid [cridcridatgmail]Nope, the skin comes with -- it's attached. Here's the Wikipedia entry on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouton_fur
Mine's old - probably from the 40s - and it's a swing coat. Warm! I don't wear fur much, but only because I live in Los Angeles, and I think somebody will try to throw something at me.
I really have to recommend that Peking duck at Empress Pavilion. That and a brioche perdu (I think that's what it's called) -- brioche turned into a sort of big wet piece of French toast, served hot, drizzled in caramel -- are the best food items I've had all year. The Chinese, like the French, do not suck all the fat out of their food.
I have a hard time, in Los Angeles, finding a chicken that doesn't taste like some 15-year-old dry, old bird. Best is probably at Ralph's supermarket. Albertson's puts some gross-ass flavoring in theirs, and Whole Foods and Trader Joe's cater to an audience of fat-phobes. Anybody else got any suggestions on where I can pick up a non-diet whole roast chicken, fire away.
P.S. My sister says Whole Foods half chicken with dark meat is pretty good. Oddly, Ralph's chicken is more expensive than Whole Paycheck's.
P.P.S. They should have a store called Fat Foods or something for people who are not trembling over every fat calorie. Of course, this is how I stay thin, eating food that's satisfying enough to keep me from going hungry 15 minutes after I chewed it.
Amy Alkon
at December 25, 2008 11:35 AM
> Whole Foods and Trader Joe's cater
> to an audience of fat-phobes.
WF caters to people who have more money than I want to spend eating. TJ caters to people who have no fear of sodium.
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at December 25, 2008 4:46 PM
Says Ms. Alkon: "They should have a store called Fat Foods or something for people who are not trembling over every fat calorie."
Other People at Restaurant: "Do you have anything low-carb on your menu?"
Old RPM Daddy at Restaurant: "Can I have a big plate of fried things with gravy all over it?"
Of course, I haven't managed to stay thin that way...
old rpm daddy at December 26, 2008 1:37 PM
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