American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Spitzer Screws Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton is once again hurt by a high-profile sex scandal.
Thanks to Eliot Spitzer’s (aka Client 9) rendezvous with a petite, brunette, American woman-of-the-night named “Kristen,” in a Washington D.C. hotel room, his resignation from office is eminent. Sources tell the Associated Press an official resignation announcement will come today (March 12) at 11:30 am [...]

New Trends In Food To Go

First we have the noodle bar trend that we mentioned the other week, this has been going on for a bit and seems to be hitting its stride, what we have cropping up now is a trend in food on the move:
Of course we have the original Mister Softie, a NYC classic, not much needs [...]

At The Bar: Summer ‘08 Prediction

Reflecting upon Cook. Eat. Drink. Live., I noticed a bit of a trend developing amongst mixed drinks.
Herb’s Vodka flavors their vodkas with rosemary, dill, coriander and fennel.
DH Krahn Gin was serving a Basil Martini.
U’Luvka Vodka had a drink that called for fresh rosemary and another on their website that calls for sage leaf
And of course [...]

Hate to Say: “I Told You So, But…”

I know you all thought my ranting about the Green Movement (1, 2, 3 to name a few) and lack of sincerity behind it was just that, ranting. But look around now. After all the fuss that was made back in May and June about how important it is in this day and age to [...]

Delicious Indian Mangoes

I’d heard rumors about some delicious Indian Mangoes and how much better they were then what we usually get here in the U.S.. Sweeter tasting and more flavorful then the mangoes we’ve been getting. Indian Mangoes proved to be a forbidden fruit in the U.S. due to a beetle that hides out in the mangoes [...]

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