{"id":269,"date":"2008-09-19T02:29:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/beer-fish-and-rock\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T02:29:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:29:54","slug":"beer-fish-and-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/beer-fish-and-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer, fish, and rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the environment has yielded its four-month protest against humanity, it&#8217;s safe to leave the house without risk of drowning in sweat and exhausted anger. This has been a long, hard summer, that started just before spring got a chance to spread its wings. This week has consisted of a few days of utopian weather pleasure. About 78 (25C), not humid, bright, and beautiful. So, for the first time in months, I went out a couple of times this week.<\/p>\n<p>This rather excellent guy called Tom invited me along to something that sounded too good to be true: a night of gastronomic excess, for $20 a head&#8230;with beer! It was also going to be a double date: me and Michele, he and his long-term love-sink. It wasn&#8217;t until we arrived that we realised we were actually taking part in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samueladams.com\/\">Sam Adams<\/a> survey, but in honesty that didn&#8217;t strike me as a bad thing. And I was right not to worry. We had four courses of gourmet food, with each course including the perfect beer accompaniment. For the record, the courses were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheese (smoked Gouda and Morbier) with walnuts and some yummy prosciutto-style beef.<\/li>\n<li>Home-made chorizo crumbled on scallops.<\/li>\n<li>New York Strip (rare) sprinked with ground coffee beans in a raspberry sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Beeramisu &#8211; guess how good that was&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each course had its own beer that was supposed to perfectly accompany the flavours. I can&#8217;t tell you how good the whole experience was. Tom and I plan to go back there this Saturday to sample some of their Shepherds pie, which is, correctly, made with lamb.<\/p>\n<p>The next evening I went downtown to meet a couple of good friends for a fish dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyitalianmarket.com\/market\/anastasi_seafood\/index.html\">Anastasi Seafood<\/a> followed by my first ever go at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_Band_2\">Rock Band 2<\/a>. Let me tell you, that is a fucking fun way to spend time! Even on &#8220;easy&#8221; I was crap at the drums, but I now have a great deal of respect for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Sabbath\">Bill Ward.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the environment has yielded its four-month protest against humanity, it&#8217;s safe to leave the house without risk of drowning in sweat and exhausted anger. This has been a long, hard summer, that started just before spring got a chance to spread its wings. This week has consisted of a few days of utopian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}