April 2006 Archives

Name: Jacob Bronstein

Occupation: Audiobook Producer / High-powered Record Label Executive

Relationship status: Single

Borough: Brooklyn

What did you eat today?

Oatmeal, chicken with broccoli and brown rice, spinach salad (with tuna, brussels sprouts, feta, carrots, garbanzos, horseradish), red wine

What do you never eat?

Liver  (except monkfish liver)

Complete this sentence:  In my refrigerator, you can always find:

Walkerswood jerk seasoning, OJ, seltzer, mustard, horseradish

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Tin foil



Where do you eat out most frequently?

Acapulco Deli & Restaurant in Greenpoint

World ends tomorrow.  What would you like for your last meal?

Oysters, crab cocktails and a pint of Anchor Steam from Swan Oyster Depot in San Fran

Jacob won a Grammy this year.  It's true.

Gridskipper reports on Chinese-Jamaican food at De Bamboo Express (awesome name) on Flatbush Ave.  The Chinese also sowed their wild rice in Trinidad and Tobago, as evidenced in the hilarious Mighty Terror calypso song, "Chinese Children":

Well, I can't make no child with their eyes so chinky

Meself and meh girl black, we ain't no Chinee

So it is very plain that you can see,

Some Chinese putting milk in meh coffee

Available on the genius album Pan Poetry.

Also on the record is a song called "Yankee Woman Ain't Cooking Sweet", an ode to a yankee girl in New York City who needs to wash her stew pork, which is apparently "tough like rubber, and dry like cork/And so much of hog hair on top the thing."  Um, ew.

Doug loves his Tee-PJ nightshirt, or as he likes to call it, his manatee.  He ordered it from one of those ads in the back of the New Yorker.  (I'm more of a tropical print muumuu girl myself.)  Now they send us the catalog in the mail. 

I'm sure you're not at all surprised to know that the manatees come in XXXL for ladies and men who are up to 300 lbs.

But ever heard of the diabetic sock?  I had to put the Ben & Jerry's back in the freezer when I saw this.  You know there's an epidemic when you can order illness-related clothing from a mail-order catalog.