You know I'm a "teacher" and I have "office hours" at
Square Books but today
Richard Howorth spotted me and forcibly moved my "office hours" to
City Grocery Bar for
martinis. Well first we asked for gibsons but it turns out I ate all the cocktail
onions last night. Who should show up but
Chris Offutt, who wrote this week's episode of
TREME? We talked about unicorns. Then
John Currence came by and put a small cast-iron skillet in front of me and in that skillet was something to eat on a bed of
collards and I ate it and it was good and John said, "That's fried cockscomb." (
See also.)