nytimes.com/2019/10/01/din… via ⁦The New York Times⁩ Amazing(ly horrifying) piece by Priya Krishna about the abjectly usory practices in cookbook publishing; nothing I didn’t know, but astonishing to see brought to print: brava👏

Donald J. Trump Vice President JD Vance Mark Meadows The New York Times YES SIR! REAL PATRIOTS KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT #BountyGate - you did NOTHING WRONG!!! youtu.be/dtkJCSk-u0A

A wee Ledaig tonight, pronounced leech-egg, peated Tobermory; it's a scotch, but if it were a question, the answer would be yes.

@NYCocktail Ben Reed Out of my hands, really. But you know water seeks its level...

@barfuglen in Tokyo; am I in Japan or Norway?

Stock day breakfast, Tokyo: espresso stretto and Ramazzotti with one cube and a twist.

Rocking the gyoza, KITSBOW style

Teensy new Blue Bottle Coffee Shop in Boerum Hill: arfully cute.

Nobody's hitting it on more cylinders than Zz's Clam Bar; Thomas Waugh, Brian Miller and Dan Nicolascau running he best cocktail bar in NYC.

@RobertOSimonson; how did you somehow get UK status in your nomination? I smell a payoff!

I've scoured the schedule for the World Cup and cannot for the life of me find when the Green Bay Packers play; what's up with this?

TBT has Toby Cecchini leading cooking.nytimes.com today with his hot-weather recipe for tuna salad circa '04. (nytimes.com/2004/09/05/mag…)

“I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...what for? Houston isn't on our schedule” ― Bum Phillips (born this day, September 29, 1923)

Packers/Vikings, Thursday night, Lombardi Room, LIB #110atlantic

Bike parking in Tokyo; look Ma, no locks!

“Being Handy” by Matt Seaton medium.com/@mattseaton/be…; Excellent piece on the loss of manual arts by Matt Seaton in the Times.

Je suis Charlie!

Nothing like a great comedy and a drink: Ridge 2012 Ponzo Vineyard Zin and the republican debate.

Shoutout to Liza Weisstuch for her excellent piece on a tromp through Islay distilleries in today’s Times Travel section. nyti.ms/2Hl4rUv