Jerry Kroth, Ph.D
Author, Professor
Radical, Progressive, & Collective Psychology
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
—Malcolm Muggeridge
Personal stuff [travel, music, food]
This page is devoted to the personal side. Looking through that prism reveals three major pastimes: travel, food, and music ( my latest vice). Some of the pages open only for friends and family.
Travel
The travel section only includes the most amazing and profound experiences, and these these trips were written up with that in mind. I call it my “excellent adventure” series. Some are pdfs and some are videos. Here they are:
Music
The music section contains two things First, for very many years, I abandoned trumpet and spent my time trying to compose and arrange big band music on synthesizers using Midi, and assorted recording gear. I played every part of these bands. The whole trumpet section, sax section, trombones, even the flute solos were just me tinkering about. BUT most recently I abandoned the electronic for the acoustic and started picking up the trumpet. I’ve been playing in two big bands so far. The video of me standing in front of a jazz orchestra playing a solo was an absolute peak experience in my life (See the Quincy Jones piece below).
Food/ Cooking
The foodie section contains my signature recipes. Time-tested, party-tested, and pretty tasty. . . with photos of the
dishes
Shrimp cocktail with Mary-Jean Sauce
Baby-back spare rips
Barbecued pork tenderloin
Roma’s bouillabaisse
Seafood casserole
Spinach-avocado-garlic soup
Persian chicken kebobs
Cucumber dill salad
Middle Eastern roasted lamb
Crab-stuffed salmon with hollandaise
Seafood curry
Fish chowder
Beer-baked chicken
Muslim burgers
Grandma’s vegetable soup
Mexican chicken soup “xochitl”
Mustard roasted fish
Romiebutz chicken
Seared Ahi tuna AC/DC
Grandma’s city chicken
Roma’s bizarre chicken Kiev
Easy & delicious chili
Paella
Thai Satay chicken
Gazpacho
Chicken Tangine
Buffalo Wings
Garlic-parmesan oysters & shrimp
Stuffed mushrooms
World famous Detroit Coney Island hotdog
Turkey Lula Kebab
The best soup of my life
Char-broiled rack of lamb
Coq au vin with white wine
Michigan ‘almost perfect’ fried chicken
Roma-Rockefeller Oysters
Middle Eastern festival: shashlik & afghan chicken
Lamb short ribs
Shepherd’s pie
Chocolate covered strawberries
Beef Stroganoff
Mediterranean salad
Turkish chicken kebabs
Lucille’s pineapple ice box pie
Roma’s Russian borscht
Achiote-jerk chicken wings
Chicken cacciatore
Bacon topped spicy shrimp
Prime Rib
Polish bigos
KFC chicken wings
KFC fried oysters
My mother's sauerbraten
Indian buttered chicken
Perfect lamb gravy
Lucille's pineapple ice box pie