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December 14, 2009

The power of the blog

A short piece on massively collaborative mathematics in the New York Times this weekend confirmed what all of us at Dining@Large knew intuitively: the power of a blog.

I wonder what our group mind should work on. The recipe for the perfect coq au vin?

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 1:59 PM | | Comments (16)
        

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Maybe we could figure out where the city's neighbourhood boundaries really are, and what the neighbourhood names are?

I once saw this item on a specials board at a restaurant: Chicken Cocoa Vin.

a prefect (or at least proper) coq au vin requires a surly worn out old rooster than can no longer do his regular job.

can we find one of them today?

I think the perfect crab cake needs some discussion.

Maybe we could figure out where the city's neighbourhood boundaries really are, and what the neighbourhood names are?

It might be easier to achieve world peace.

80 being

Hal, we can make it food-related by visualizing whirled peas...

From the article: By now we're used to the idea that gigantic aggregates of human brains — especially when allowed to communicate nearly instantaneously via the Internet — can carry out fantastically difficult cognitive tasks, like writing an encyclopedia...

Calling Prof. McIntyre...

Maybe we could figure out where the city's neighbourhood boundaries really are, and what the neighbourhood names are?

Perhaps we can discuss this over dinner at one of Spanish Town's many restaurants.

a prefect (or at least proper) coq au vin requires a surly worn out old rooster than can no longer do his regular job.

I was going to suggest Congress, until I saw that MrRational was going for the public school version.

Lissa, I feel sure I'm missing something, but I thought prefects were mostly found in private schools.

Spelling pedantry as wit?

Surely you can do better. I know the blog warrants better.

My apologies, MrRational. That was thoughtless of me.

Personally, I think typos and other accidental misspellings can be very funny. I encourage anyone who spots one of mine to make a joke out of it.

34 backwash

Laura Lee, in England, public schools are private schools.

As the local dyslexic who once wrote that, after her death, Queen Margaret of Scotland was interned at thus and such a cathedral, my eye for absurd misspellings is well-developed.

Lissa, you will appreciate this one. Two of us were trying to find a hair care product my niece requested from her Secret Santa, with no luck. Her mother explained that it was sold "only in saloons." Uh huh. I found it at "About Faces."

Owl Meat! Where you been?

I concur about the perfect crab cake...

Here's my recipe:
1 pound backfin lump
1 egg
1/4 tsp Old Bay

Help it into dollops then fry in butter, turning once. Serve with Saltines. A dab of tartar sauce is completely optional.


ginkgos Leibenfrost (my Korean knife-sharpener name)


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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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