The Physiology of Taste – by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

One never knows what one might find wandering around the bookshelves of a famous French chef friend. Browsing among hundreds of cookbooks, coffee table food books, books about food history, ideas and technique — ranging from Neapolitan pizza to couscous to the Tsukiji fish market — there it was — tattered, faded, brittle, with a scotch-taped binding and pages that could only be turned with a surgeon’s hand — a first edition of one of the most seminal books in all of western food culture.

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M & M SOUL FOOD CAFE

People are always saying to us: “ELV.” We say” What?” They say: “ELV, why are you such a snob?” To which we reply: “What’s your point?”

More to the point, we then point out that if ELV liked everything, no one would pay any attention to what he had to say, and besides… Don’t you want a critic of anything, to be…uhmm….extremely discriminating in their tastes?

And then, we point out that one of our favorite places in town is the M & M Soul Food Cafe.

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DOUBLE HELIX WINE BAR

We love lots of things about the Double Helix: the name, the wines by the glass selection, the cool mixed drinks, the shopping hotties that hang there, and the fact that it’s the only place in The Palazzo Shoppes we can afford. (Whenever they add that extra “pes” to the word shop, you know, in the words of the late, great A. J. Curtas (The Official Deceased Father Of ELV): “…they saw you comin'”.)

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