Jerry Minnich’s So Long, Farewell 2005

Jerry Minnich:

Pasta and oysters and rich Gorgonzola,
Coffee and doughnuts and nutty granola,
Bluegill and pizza and hot chicken wings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

It has been a pretty good year in the culinary trenches. Some good new restaurants have opened, a few have closed, and I didn’t get food poisoning once. Here are a few of my fonder memories: