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That Was The Week That Was aired in America on NBC from 1964 to 1965. The recurring cast -- David Frost, Henry Morgan, Alan Alda and Buck Henry -- would present the prior weeks news in satirical manner. You might think of it as a precursor to
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.
That's a long-winded way of saying I'm taking the name and using it to categorize our weekly wrap up. Gastronomically speaking, this past week was an exceptionally good one -- excepting the sad news that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will not seek the Republican Presidential nomination. But we'll get to the ramifications of that in a bit. Let's start with better stuff.
On
Sunday,
The New York Times Magazine came out with its Fourth Annual
Food And Drink issue. Mark Bittman explains, in the intro, that this years theme is the answering of questions -- like
What's the Single Best Way to Make Coffee? (grinding beans with a burr grinder just before making it).
Three takeaways from the issue:
1. "Mediocre beans just out of the grinder have much more flavor than even fantastic beans that were ground up yesterday."
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