Dining Diary
One Man's Daily Quest For Deliciousness
Long before the word "blog" was invented, I was keeping a journal about my restaurant and cooking experiences and publishing it in the New Orleans Menu. In a way, the diary was my restaurant reviews in raw form, reporting on just one meal instead of all the ones I'd ever had in the restaurant, as I would do for a full review.
In the weeks after Katrina, I increased the personal details in the Dining Diary as a way of letting friends and readers know what was going on. I began getting a lot of mail from readers who liked the blending of the culinary and the personal, so I kept adding more of the latter. I don't really understand why, but this made the Dining Diary by far the most-read of the five or six articles I publish every day. I write an entry for every single day, even the boring ones. Haven't missed a day since 2007.
Here are the ten most recent Dining Diary entries, starting with the newest and going backwards, plus links to the twenty before those. An index of the past three years' worth of Dining Diaries is below. (More are being added going backwards.) Click on any of the links below to go to that month's worth of entries.
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30 Most Recent Dining Diary Entries
One Man's Daily Quest For Deliciousness
Long before the word "blog" was invented, I was keeping a journal about my restaurant and cooking experiences and publishing it in the New Orleans Menu. In a way, the diary was my restaurant reviews in raw form, reporting on just one meal instead of all the ones I'd ever had in the restaurant, as I would do for a full review.
In the weeks after Katrina, I increased the personal details in the Dining Diary as a way of letting friends and readers know what was going on. I began getting a lot of mail from readers who liked the blending of the culinary and the personal, so I kept adding more of the latter. I don't really understand why, but this made the Dining Diary by far the most-read of the five or six articles I publish every day. I write an entry for every single day, even the boring ones. Haven't missed a day since 2007.
Here are the ten most recent Dining Diary entries, starting with the newest and going backwards, plus links to the twenty before those. For an index to all the Dining Diaries since Katrina, click on Sides>>Dining Diary in the blue bar under the logo at the top of this page.
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January 2013
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February 2013
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March 2013
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April 2013
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February 2012
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April 2012
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May 2012
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June 2012
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July 2012
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August 2012
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September 2012
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October 2012
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November 2012
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December 2012
- January 2011
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February 2011
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- January 2010
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December 2009
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Diary Archives: 1996-1997
I began keeping a daily journal in college. The habit stayed with me through some thirty handwritten volumes of thick notebooks until the demands of parenthood (among other things) squeezed it out of my schedule. But on a trip out West with my family in the summer of 1996, the feeling came that I should really record those days in words. Not only that, but I thought diarykeeping would be a great way to report to my new readers on the web--then a fledgling medium--on a wide variety of culinary and oenological matters. It was a blog, many years before the word "blog" was invented. I thought it might be interesting to dig these things out of the files to see how much (or how little) things have changed in fifteen years.
- Caribbean Cruise, Voyager Of The Seas, Feb. 2012