Max Pictures’ Blather

…at 5. (Six people at FIVE Restaurant at 5 p.m.) FIVE is the new restaurant and bar at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley. Six of us stopped by there yesterday evening to check it out. (It was originally supposed to be “Five at FIVE at 5,” but it seemed mean to leave someone out [...]

…for your DHARMA Initiative wine cellar. We know that the DHARMA Initiative keeps their personnel hale and hearty with a semi-steady supply of wines. Thus far on the show we’ve seen bottled Merlot and Cabernet and generic red wine in a box. Well, recently several more DI wines have come to light: Pinot Noir and [...]

…and eating in and eating out again. (For those who complain, “Stop posting photos of things you’ve eaten,” I  say, “Stop complaining about my posting photos of things I’ve eaten. Go have a snack, for Pete’s sake.”) Miss T and I have watched with some interest the opening of a Black Bear Diner in the [...]

…make Lost lemonade. Even though Lost is on summer (and fall, and part of winter) break, DHARMA Initiative materiel keeps coming. It’s probably because the last time I entered 2-4 in the computer for a supply drop, it seemed like it wasn’t going through, so I kept entering it. This week’s drop included, for the [...]

…from Monterey Bay. 15 More Monterey Bay photos on Picasa from our recent Central Coast trip. Marvel at pictures of the meals we ate and the Clement Monterey. It’s nice being on vacation.

…no people. The Saturday morning Davis Farmers Market takes place all year ’round, but from May to October it really comes alive. With the sunny, mild, morning weather, attendance triples and the population of multi-child strollers increases eight-fold. Yet, despite the hundreds of market-goers, somehow all my photos end up peopleless. You can see for [...]

…five dishes, three restaurants. For some reason, at each place, one of the dishes we ordered came with mashed potatoes. (All the photos are at 5 Weekend Food photos at maxpixpix on Picasa.) Good think Miss T and I like mashed potatoes!

People in the U.S.—and, to a lesser extent, in Mexico—are celebrating Cinco de Mayo today, but if you’d like to extend (or delay) your celabración to Lost Wednesday, why not break out a few DHARMA Initiative food and drink items? If you’re short on DHARMA Initiative supplies of tequila, beer, green chiles, olives, and refried [...]

As mentioned in our last post, the DHARMA Initiative version of SPAM (DI Spiced Pork and Ham) made its appearance in Ben’s fridge back in 2004. But while clearing out some boxes from the storage room (a.k.a. the garage), I came across a 1973 magazine ad for DHARMA Initiative Spiced Pork and Ham. (You can [...]

Although we’ve seen Hawaii-favorite SPAM® (recast as DHARMA Initiative Spiced Pork and Ham) in Ben’s refrigerator, we haven’t yet seen SPAM’s lesser cousin and island favorite runner-up: (Canned) Corned Beef. While it’s been described as “a little bit above dog food,” corned beef is a South Pacific staple, and as a long-shelf-life source of protein, [...]