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Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 12, 2016 in Blogh, Food | 1 comment

A Dinner in Pictures

One of my favorites: fish baked with tomatoes, garlic, thyme and white wine. Cod is the fish, and I added diced red pepper and onion because at this time of year they...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 1, 2016 in Blogh | 3 comments

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

Loving Orson Welles is a is a compulsion. He is singular, like Bob Dylan, and a wreck, like Marlon Brando. Unlike Brando he didn’t turn against his vocation, or...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 25, 2016 in Blogh, Food | 1 comment

Dal

Trying to eat simply is a good idea, but time is of the essence. How much time will I spend on cooking? The slow food movement, which I endorse, despite the fact that...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 24, 2016 in Blogh, Food | 1 comment

IT WILL BE CORN

I haven’t written anything here in a long time. I have no idea how that happened, maybe nothing to say? It is a long standing principle of mine that as a writer I...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 19, 2016 in Blogh | 1 comment

TEACH, NOT PREACH

I have been resisting the urge to write about this election for weeks now. It is a delicious situation, with so much to write about, but the increasingly demented...

Posted by jonfrankel on Mar 4, 2016 in Blogh | 1 comment

Kristian Hoffman

This link was posted by someone on facebook. It’s from a piece written in 2010 by Kristian Hoffman, who was in the Mumps, and played with James Chance, Lydia...

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About Jon Frankel

Jon Frankel is a poet and novelist, the author of Gaha: Babes of the Abyss, (Whiskey Tit Press, 2014) and, writing as Buzz Callaway, Specimen Tank (Manic D. Press, 1993). Other unpublished novels include several versions of Endangered Species, a contemporary novel set in NYC in the 80’s, The Last Bender, and The Man Who Can’t Die, a sci fi noir set in the same world as GAHA: Babes of the Abyss. All are published in part or in full on this web site. You'll also find reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. Frankel lives in upstate New York with his family and works as a library supervisor.