October 2004

Nick. Harry. Michelle. Andrea. Separate and alone, foodie icons of the internet age. Together, fierce combatants in the final weeks of what will surely become an international phenomenon–Gourmet Survivor 2004.This week’s challenge was to write a restaurant review. Simple enough. Let’s see what our fierce fighting foodies came up with. Vote for your favorite to…

There are two ways to go about cooking:1) You find a recipe. You go out and buy the ingredients. You cook them.2) You go out and buy ingredients. You find a recipe. You cook it.I have almost always been a #1 person, but tonight I journeyed into the land of #2. (Shut up, I know…

In my many travels around the city, I have built a mental catalogue of places that look like places I should someday visit. There’s an Italian place on Bleeker street, the Indian restaurant around the block from where I live, and GoBo–“Food For The Five Senses”–on 6th Avenue near NYU.Last night was a reunion of…

“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.And if sometimes, on the stairs of…

Go us!

I read about it at Gothamist Food: an Otto gelato cart on the northwest corner of Washington Square Park. See, according to the experts, Otto has the best gelato in New York. I’ve never eaten at Otto. I go to school next to Washington Square Park. Do you see what I’m getting at?Tonight I went…

Thanks to site reader Tim H. for this terrific link: Carb Couture. Who wants to buy me a t-shirt?

Can you believe we’re down to only four people? Those who remain have survived FIVE eliminations. They are: Nick, Harry, Andrea and Michelle. Let’s give them a round of applause, shall we?*Raucous applause.*Moving on—this week’s challenge asks these homebodies to leave their kitchens and computer desks and to venture out into the world at large.…

Ya, so I thought my strange voting scheme might make for an interesting twist. But everyone voted for Dallas. So, I’m afraid, Dallas this is farewell. Thanks for your eager participation. We’ll miss your quirky efforts…