Short Stories The Page in the Desert Jon Hillenbrand, April 28, 2017October 17, 2019 Somewhere north of the city with no name, a speeding car traces a lone arc across the horizon. The desert continues before them and behind them forever. The car is full of students on a documentary expedition. The engine growls to a stop with tires shedding a hail of stones upon the…
Short Stories The Time Travelers Notebook – MedBotRX Jon Hillenbrand, April 9, 2017October 16, 2019 In 2019, a hospital on the north side of Chicago was instructed by a court ruling to put warning labels on their elevator doors. “This facility is co-run by an Artificial Intelligence. Ride elevators at your own risk.” The origin of this is very interesting. Apparently, around this time, AI was…
Fake Cooking Blog Technique solves all Jon Hillenbrand, August 10, 2015October 16, 2019 When I was learning cooking from my grandpa up in Upstate NY, the one lesson I took away more than any other lesson, besides the lesson to treat people as if they were having a really bad day, and the lesson to always treat a lady like a lady, which…
Fake Cooking Blog The perfect ingredients Jon Hillenbrand, August 8, 2015October 16, 2019 In my last post, I talked about my reasons behind starting my own restaurant in NYC. The Underdog Kitchen was described by the NY Times as, “The hottest new experience in the city worth visiting in person if not on Twitter.” A 23 month waiting list means that I’ll be…
Fake Cooking Blog The Underdog Kitchen Jon Hillenbrand, August 7, 2015October 16, 2019 When I was a young lad, my grandfather and I would cook in the kitchen together. He was a great chef who cooked in the Marines during WW2 and later in Europe where he met my grandmother. We would cook for hours and examine the language of food to create…