Wednesday, November 25, 2009
About Me

- Name: Peter Cherches
is the author of two volumes of short prose: Condensed Book and Between a Dream and a Cup of Coffee, as well as several limited-edition artist's books. His work has recently appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180 and Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. His fiction and short prose work has been featured in a wide range of magazines and journals, including Harper’s, Semiotext(e), Transatlantic Review, Fiction International, and Bomb. Sonorexia, the avant-vaudeville music-performance group he co-led with Elliott Sharp in the 1980s, appeared at such legendary venues as The Mudd Club and CBGB. Cherches is a two-time recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships in creative nonfiction.
Recent Posts
- Dumbed-down Southeast Asian Food for Trendy New Yo...
- Peruvian Aviation Authorities Even Stupider than A...
- I Dreamed a B Movie Last Night
- Dining Among the Ruins
- Love that Larb
- Ollanta for Short
- Which Came First, the Chicken or the Waffle?
- Return of the Hunan
- Malaysian Food: The World's Great Fusion Cuisine
- Pheasant Under Glass
- Back to Di Fara
- Support Your Local Small Business
- My Quest for Non-Alcoholic Gin
- Celiac-Friendly New York Without Compromise
- Downtown Made Me
- The Energy
- Rethinking the Cuban Sandwich
- A Memorable Menu
- Turkey Words
- Pide Party
- Dieting
- On Menu Scouting
- Ice Cream Jottings
- What's a Shmendrik?
- Holy Shit, Shatnez?
- I Was Culinarily Transgendered
- Rolled Beef, an Endangered Deli Meat
- A Kiss to the Blarney Stone
- Food Aromas
- Guy Kibbee Eggs
- Shrimp and Grits
- Chinese Food, the Early Years
- The Szechuan Seventies
- The Cantonese Comeback
- Stalking the Elusive Yunnan Cuisine
- Save the Butterfly Shrimp
- A Chinese Restaurant Dream
- Wu Liang Ye
- Wu Liang Ye II: Hounded
- Friend is the new Acquaintance (Facebook)
- When Good Restaurants Do Bad Websites
- Restaurant Websites Redux
- Bathroom Behavior on the Subway
- "Health Vegetarians"
- Leaving Momofuku to Others
- Una Pizza Overrated
- How Was Everything?
- The White Man's Dosa
- My Lunch with Ed Koch
- Choosing a Guidebook
- Small World Stories
- Eudora Welty at the Supreme Court
- Local Color
- Nostalgia for Kerala and its Food
- Nightmare in Karnataka
- Berber Shows and Chickie Grills
- Mr. Cherches Goes to India, Part I
- Mr. Cherches Goes to India, Part II
- The Road to Istria, Part I
- The Road to Istria, Part II
- The Old Neighborhood
- Halloween Story
- New Daddy with a Mustache
- Young Pete: The Dream
- 3 brief fat boy memories
- My Life of Crime
- Mrs. Zabell's Wrist
- Sable
Selected Earlier Posts
Chinese Food
Rants
Travel
Childhood


1 Comments:
I clicked on the song while listening to Sun Ra. Dizzy singing "Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat" while "The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra" was playing in the background was surreal but cool at the same time.
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