Putnam Weekley presents Detroit Drinks

Thu Sep 02, 2010

Reader Photos I

This was taken in Clark Park. If you drink in the park, be cool. Don't get all loud and obnoxious. Enjoy the park and its freedoms. And buy local! More...

0 comments (21 views) | Posted by: putnam | Sep 02, 10 | 2:39 pm

Wed Sep 01, 2010

wednesday

cinnamon. salmon. wednesday lunches @ pot and box.

larger

gauri and lisa need to move to detroit. don't you agree?

0 comments (4 views) | Posted by: putnam | Sep 01, 10 | 10:35 pm

Tue Aug 31, 2010

Go Ask Alice

"Last week, in San Francisco, thanks to the efforts of Ian Becker and Wolfgang Weber and the stores and restaurants who participated, there was something thrilling going on. Proof was evidence that the taste and the wild side of winemakers on the edge provoke drinkers, tasters and the curious show up." More...

0 comments (23 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 31, 10 | 11:48 pm

Notes from the Stall

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Name the restaurant. Guess the cuisine.

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3 comments (81 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 31, 10 | 12:34 am

Sat Aug 28, 2010

Cinnamon

It is this week's spice at Pot and Box. The salmon is already curing.

Respectfully, yours. More...

3 comments (64 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 28, 10 | 2:18 am

Fri Aug 27, 2010

Toby, Zack, Ash and Phillip

My homies made a video. Who is Johnny Knoxville?

Let's brush up now, so we can have a really interesting thread here on DD when the film comes out. K? What should I know?

4 comments (65 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 27, 10 | 2:30 am

Thu Aug 26, 2010

Will We Ruin it if We Show Pictures?

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0 comments (51 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 26, 10 | 3:34 am

Idiots Text

Tennis. Aluminum bike frames. 12 year-old-like trigger finger. Coriander. North wind. Purple beefsteak tomatoes. Colorado. Stumpid. (New word!) More...

1 comments (49 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 26, 10 | 2:49 am

Sat Aug 21, 2010

Haute II Death

Cooking for oneself is different than sharing food. This is why blogs were invented.

Produce has been phenomenal lately. And it's fun to eat it raw, or minimally flavored. But so is it fun to use little baby squashes like they were some kind of science fiction-inspired eggroll, filled with alternating vegetable textures and ready to be drizzled with strong flavored sauces. More...

4 comments (168 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 21, 10 | 6:55 pm

Thu Aug 19, 2010

Truth, Art, Taste, and The Fight

Everyone eats, and taste is the claim agriculture makes on our senses. Harvest surpluses compel our species to discriminate ever more finely between what is well preserved and what is too rotten to eat (or drink). In fact, humans are so preoccupied with "taste" that we practice it in the abstract: in architecture, music, fashion, dance and even with people.

If eating is a human necessity, then so is art. Art is the pursuit and expression of truth, and like food it is mediated by our sense of taste. Let me stress this: truth is something different from accuracy. Your driver's license photo may be accurate, but I'm willing to bet it does not resonate with truth. More...

0 comments (336 views) | Posted by: putnam | Aug 19, 10 | 11:04 am

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