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Feeding the Beast
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Love the wine tasting menus. Will try to get to Bin 36. Also have a planned dinner at Rosebud on Rush. Even those Corner Bakeries are good and convenient for breakfast or lunch.
Went to a similar type of place Il Sole in Dallas – appetizer, meat, fish, dessert – full glass with each – could barely walk afterwards but worth the headache and made up for the Anatole hotel’s weirdness!
Ron – I think maybe we need a Food forum. What do you think?
Mike
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regarding exercise – walking is good. I was only on my mountain bike twice this past Summer, partially due to the bad weather. A good walk at a leisurely pace is the best thing. Keeping the body moving is more important than running for your life on a treadmill. In nice weather I walk around the parking lot or down to the corner and back.
A little trivia for you. The corner in question, known as Canfield Corner, has an old pharmacy with a disused soda fountain from the 50’s. When she lived in town with her husband Arthur Miller, young Marilyn Monroe used to ride her bike to this spot for an ice cream soda.
https://www.ctmuseumquest.com/?page_id=5937
Too bad she didn’t stick around – that would get me on my bike too.
Mike Cohen
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If you like it, and can spare the time, get up to Argyle St. for pho.
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Sunday went to Rosebud on Rush – good Italian.
Monday busy 1st day of conference. Wall to wall people. If there is a recession, it seems to have stayed in the NY Times.
Had a chance to walk around the show a bit, in addition to helping make sure the video sessions went off without a hitch. I checked in with a few clients, made some new contacts, and checked out the current state of the HD imaging industry for healthcare. Sony is showing a new 3D HD system.
Most of the HD vendors are using a proprietary HD recording box – h.264 video all around. More about this in an upcoming blog post on the subject. Stay tuned.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program – eating!
Monday went to Spiaggia. Hidden upstairs in an office building with a lake view (in the day time) this fancy shmancy restaurant, also Italian, was really fancy and extra shmancy. For pasta I had gnocchi with a ricotta cream sauce and truffle. This restaurant is all about the truffle, not a bad thing. The meat was duck – don’t know the preparation but it was good. A trio of gelati and decaf capuccino wrapped up the day. On adjacent tables were no less than 3 of the top surgeons in the business. If surgeons are filmmakers, then Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh and Michel Gondry were in the house. Scorsese asked me what to have for dessert. I hope he tried the banana gelati.
Tuesday is open, Wed on my own so Bin 36 is on the agenda. Hopefully I will be able to stumble back to the hotel without falling in the Chicago River!
Stay tuned for further reports. Same COW time. Same COW channel.
Mike Cohen
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