Monday morning and we all know what that means.  It’s Monday morning. Whoa.

It’s a big week.  My new series on chefs launches today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJxU7Xpmsmg&feature=youtu.be.

The first episode is with Andrew Carmellini.

More broadly, there’s a chill in the air, socks on my feet for the first time since June, and serious thought is being given to making the season’s first batch of pea soup.

Pea soup: Eight cups of water, one cup of dried and split green peas, one peeled onion sliced in half, one celery stalk, salt and pepper to taste, and 18 minutes in a pressure cooker.  Done.

It gets better.  It gets worse.  It gets better again.