Belated St. Patrick's Day Greetings!

It was a fun, crazy weekend, with L* in town for her spring break from Schmolumbia and Little Brother and LB's girlfriend ALSO here for theirs. We wandered around in Chinatown and had some Vietnamese food (yeah, I thought there was a conflict there, but apparently not in Boston), looked at Paul Revere's grave and the Make Way for Ducklings (I'm a terrible tour guide, but I can reliably find those two things, so everyone who visits me gets to see them), and ate copious amounts of pastries from my new favorite "European Style" bakery. Continuing with the food theme, L* and I undertook a project to get corned beef and corn rye bread for her grandfather (she headed home to California today, and apparently the formerly New Yorkers can't get good kosher food in the Golden State). This involved trips to a deli for the meat, Target for a meat cooling apparatus, so as not to give her grandfather food poisoning for his birthday, and a bakery for the bread. Unfortunately, they were out of rye bread, so we instead bought bagels, and I made the Discovery of the Week: a baker's dozen day-old bagels for $3!! Of course, the fact that I don't have a freezer in which to keep said bagels, live alone, and probably can't consume half of them before they get hard as a rock doesn't mean it isn't worth it: that's the price of 1.5 bagels at the law school cafeteria - and those are boring Lender's type bagels. These are the real, crusty on the outside, mushy on the inside, not the size of your face, deal. Plus, I could always use the really old ones to feed the ducklings... Also available at said bakery: at least a dozen spreads, from lox to chives. Mmmm....

I mentioned that I was a terrible tour guide, and it's true when it comes to sites of historical importance, but I think I'm getting pretty close to food nirvana here. If anyone wants the "Eat your way through Boston" tour, which has a Jewish and European theme, supplemented with a lobster and crab theme depending on your price point, please let me know.