Every goddamn day: 05/16/26

    Fate has a way of upbraiding you.     If you remember EGD's most recent guest post , a week ago Sunday, a friend related a terrible ...

      Carrots and I go way back. To the days when my mother would serve frozen peas and carrots and I would instinctively go for the orange ...

Fresh challah at Masa Madre, a Mexican Jewish bakery in East Garfield Park, now, sadly, defunct.        True story.       Once I stopped by ...

      So here's the question: if the ideal hot dog is charbroiled — and it is — then why would anybody ever want a hot dog that has been...

      Confession time.      In the years I regularly patronized Gene & Georgetti with my pals, the check was inevitably picked up by som...

      I'm still on vacation. I could have easily extended "Meet my Metaphors" for another week, but thought, "enough alre...

  Uffuzi Gallery        In looking up M.C. Escher references , I reread this column. Note the unashamed pointy-headedness of the opening. Yo...