Monday, October 03, 2011
The "Costumes" issue of Mung Being is now online. It includes my story "Love With the Proper Stevedore." Also included are works by my good friends Don Skiles, Holly Anderson, and Peter Wortsman (whose story stars yours truly).
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)
- Menupages
- 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
- Sable
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- July 2007
- August 2007
- September 2007
- October 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- January 2008
- February 2008
- March 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- January 2009
- February 2009
- March 2009
- April 2009
- May 2009
- June 2009
- July 2009
- August 2009
- September 2009
- October 2009
- November 2009
- December 2009
- January 2010
- February 2010
- March 2010
- April 2010
- May 2010
- June 2010
- July 2010
- August 2010
- September 2010
- October 2010
- November 2010
- December 2010
- January 2011
- February 2011
- March 2011
- April 2011
- May 2011
- June 2011
- October 2011
- November 2011
- December 2011
Cherches Online Publications
Food Links
Other Links
Recent Posts
Selected Earlier Posts
Chinese Food
Rants
Travel
Childhood
Everything, By Date

