Goodbye to all that (2010 edition)
Song
Charlie Christian, Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian (CBS)
Charlie Poole, The Legend of Charlie Poole (County)
Kurt Vile, Childish Prodigy and Square Shells EP (Matador)
Michael Hurley, Blue Hills (Mississippi)
Mike Hurley, First Songs (Smithsonian/Folkways)
John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie (ABC)
Black Mountain, Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)
Metal Mountains, "Structures in the Sun" (Amish)
Cold Cave, Love Comes Close (Matador)
Dead Meadow, Old Growth (Matador)
Vashti Bunyan, Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos, 1964-1967 (DiCristina)
Ratatat, LP4 (XL)
Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs" (Merge)
The Six and Seven-Eighths String Band of New Orleans, s/t (Folkways)
The Dough Rollers, M.H. Merchant Stone House, Cornwallville, NY, June 2010
Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me (Drag City)
Pylon, Chomp More (DFA)
Destroyer, "Archer on the Beach/Grief Point" 12" (feat. Tim Hecker and Loscil) (Merge Records)
Wolf Parade, Expo 86 (SubPop)
Townes Van Zandt, In the Beginning (Compadre) & s/t (Fat Possum)
Steve Earle, Townes (New West)
Rosanne Cash, "Girl From the North Country" (Manhattan)
Harlem, Hippies (Matador)
Fairport Convention, s/t (Polydor) and Unhalfbricking (Four Men with Beards)
Wendy René, "After Laughter" (Stax)
Big Star, "Motel Blues (Demo)," Keep An Eye on the Sky (Rhino)
Fleetwood Mac, Future Games (Reprise)
The Bee Gees, First (Atco)
Status Quo, "(April) Spring, Summer, and Wednesdays" (Pye)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Kollaps Tradixionales (Constellation)
The Clean, "Changing Your Head," Unknown Country (Flying Nun)
Grinderman, Grinderman 2 (Anti)
V/A, Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 (Matador)
Ella Fitzgerald, Savoy Recordings, 1936-1937 (Savoy/ASV Living Era)
Captain Beefheart* & His Magic Band, Safe as Milk (Buddha) and sur le sable, Cannes, '68
AEB cookbook of the year: Chad Robertson, Tartine Bread
Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France and Inspiring Thirst: Vintage Selections From the Kermit Lynch Wine Brochure
Everyday Harumi: Simple Japanese Food for Family and Friends
Michelle and Philip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price, The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
George Eliot, Silas Marner
James Beard, American Cookery
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew
Suzanne Goin with Teri Gelber, Sunday Suppers at Lucques
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
René Redzepi, Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
Edward Behr, "The State of Pork: Iowa, Pigs, Corn, and Pasture," The Art of Eating (Spring 2010, no. 84)
Popular Plates BBQ: Across the Country with Roadfood's Jane & Michael Stern
David Pasternack and Ed Levine, The Young Man and the Sea: Recipes and Crispy Fish Tales From Esca
Moving Images
Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series
Inside Job, dir. Ferguson
Incendies, dir. Villeneuve
Ace in the Hole, dir. Wilder
Spartacus, dir. Kubrick
Exit Through the Gift Shop, dir. Banksy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, dir. Capra
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, dir. Ford
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, dir. Powell
The Housemaid, dir. Kim Ki-Young
30 Rock
The Ghost Writer, dir. Polanski
The African Queen, dir. Huston
A Serious Man, dir. Coen
K Street
Traffik
Thieves' Highway, dir. Dassin
The White Ribbon, dir. Haneke
The Fighter, dir. Russell
The Office (U.S.)
Food and Drink
AEB Montreal restaurant of the year: Kazu
AEB non-Montreal restaurant of the year: Flour + Water (San Francisco)
AEB pâtisserie of the year: Pâtisserie Rhubarbe, Mtl
AEB sandwicherie of the year: Saltie, NYC
eating your way across New York City
eating your way across Los Angeles
eating your way across Northern California
Le Comptoir, Montreal
100 Almond Curry
grits
Smith Island cake
AEB burgers
Lièvre à la royale + smoked suckling pig dinner for two + Gerard Schueller Riesling Bildstoecklé, 2007, Joe Beef
Fleisher's pork shoulders
Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants, Berkeley, CA
Tomales Bay Oyster Company
baking Tartine bread at home
Les 400 Coups, Montreal
Bandol/Alsace night with friends
Oenopole
Miscellaneous
Stinson Beach, CA
Fort Tilden, NY
Rehoboth Beach, DE
Big Sur, CA
swimming on two coasts in two weeks
Les Étoffes, 5253 St-Laurent, Montreal
Machine Age lamps
This American Life
La Founderie, 6596 St-Laurent, Montreal
Essex County, NY
Prelinger Library, SF
learning to play bridge
New York High Line
Jericho Center, VT, Jericho, VT, and "Snowflake" Bentley
fall bazaars
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Goodbye 2010, hello 2011!
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Want to check out earlier lists of faves? Here are the links:
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2007
2008
2009
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* RIP
8 comments:
that's quite a list! been meaning to see the white ribbon myself... and your tartine bread would make MY top '10 list as well.
happy new year, you two!
xoxo
Happy New Year, AEB, and thanks especially for the Jericho Center tip. We were in Vermont over the New Year, and made sure to stop by today to buy some eggs, but sadly no ham. Someone had bought over $400 worth of meat before us, all listed neatly on the self-serve clipboard.
Great list! Happy New Year and I wish y'all many more posts and foodie adventures in 2011.
Some people have
a different take on the NOMA cookbook.
Hello Bartek, the tone of that article is so annoying. You can make snide remarks all you want, but Rene is a poet and he is creating something spectacular, which is more than I can say for ol' what's his name. (the author of the article)
I am not calling Noma a sacred cow, but there was a much wittier way to write this article, ie., not so ham-fisted.
I shared this because I thought it was a rather hilarious parody. No denying that its ham-fisted. Sorry to hear that it annoyed you.
Einar got the book for Christmas and I have been studying it over the last few days. Do you find any of the recipes useful?
Sorry if I barked at you, it seemed like the author of that article missed the whole point of Noma...
The recipes are less useful than inspiring. For sure there are elements that are do-able for home, but attempting a whole dish is a bit daunting, especially without 20 stagaires picking bucketfuls of herbs for you.
I love the book, though, and their first one. Definitely the most exciting thing happening in the restaurant world (for me).
Lovely lists. I feel like I need a mixtape like the old days. Can't wait to come for a visit in the summer and share some food with you both. Happy New Year! XOXO T&T
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