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.
- "The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star." - Brillat-Savarin
Cherches Links
- Cherches books @ Amazon
- Downtown Music Research Guide
- Condensed Book
- Cherches Sings
- excerpts from Mr. Deadman (decomP)
- excerpts from Mr. Deadman (The Cafe Irreal)
- excerpts from Mr. Deadman (Eclectica)
- All my pieces on Six Sentences
- Dissatisfaction; The Biographers; Imagining Phoebe (3:AM)
- Lost; The Same Thing (Snow Monkey)
- The Funny Company (Mr. Beller's Neighborhood)
- I Left My Youth at Fred & Rudy's Candy Store (Mr. Beller's Neighborhood)
- Geography (Mung Being)
- Olga's Party (Mung Being)
- The Rematch (Mung Being)
- The Man with a Steak Nose (Mung Being)
- At Dagwood and Blondie's (Mung Being)
- Mood Indigo (Mung Being)
- The Music Critic and the Soprano (Mung Being)
- Excerpts from Trio Bagatelles (Mung Being)
- A Finnish Toaster (Mung Being)
- The Knish (Mung Being)
- Bulimia Mon Amour (Mung Being)
- The Man Who Lived in a Shoe (Mung Being)
- The Bubble (Mung Being)
- Mother's Meat Loaf (Mung Being)
- from Trio Bagatelles (elimae)
- Whispers (elimae)
- Billing Notice (elimae)
- A Letter Opener (Six Little Things)
- Mr. Mondrian's Confusion (Rumble)
- Lift Your Right Arm (Poetry 180)
- Where Is She? (Poetry 180)
- 1st Line (50 to 1)
- The Lone Ranger (Titular)
- Singeing (Tuesday Shorts)
- A Conspiracy of Address Book Salesmen (Tuesday Shorts)
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (with Don Skiles, Eclectica)
- A Red Flag and a Horn (with Don Skiles, Mung Being)
- Days Lost to History... (with Don Skiles, Snow Monkey)
- A 92-Degree Day (with Don Skiles, Qarrtsiluni)
- Eggs (with Marina LaPalma, Mung Being)
- Similarities and Found Photo (with Holly Anderson, Qarrtsiluni)
- Behold These Arms (with Holly Anderson, Admit Two)
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- Chowhound
- Eat This, Not That
- The Food Section
- Roadfood
- The Greatest Food Memoir Ever
- Steve, Don't Eat It!
- Deep End Dining
- Eating in Translation
- Eater (NYC restaurant buzz)
- Eating Chinese
- Feeding America
- The Greatest Blog Ever
- Guys Read
- The Downtown Collection
- Jean Shepherd
- The Stan Freberg Show
- Bob and Ray
- Old Time Radio
- Mr. Fairfield
- Noir of the Week
- Six Sentences
- The Year of the Maya
- A Tale of Three Tulums
- 24 Hours in Valladolid
- Eating in Veracruz
- Veracruz
- New Work in Mung Being
- Another Collaboration with Don Skiles
- Pete em Portugues
- Mr. Deadman is Back and Eclectica's Got Him
- A Chat with Cleverbot
- 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
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