Writing about food since 2004.
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Adam Roberts
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Cooking, Art and Magic: Summer Squash and Corn Pasta
There is a link, methinks, between cooking, art and magic. The best evidence I can give to support this theory is from Act 4.1 of Macbeth. Enter the witches. First Witch: Round about the cauldron go, In the poisoned entrails throw Toad that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one sweltered venom sleeping got…
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High Drama and Warm Bagels at Ess-A-Bagel
Back in my Chowhounding days, before I lived in New York, I had a list on the back page of a moleskin notebook of places Chowhounders revered in the city. I actually still have that moleskin in my desk somewhere. The summer before I moved to New York, I stayed with Lisa and used that…
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A.O.C. is A-OK except for the loud music
There was a time, not too long ago, when I’d have to beg my friends to eat with me at interesting restaurants–to not do the Olive Garden or whatever restaurants most people our age eat at and try something different, new, and maybe more expensive than they wanted to pay. There was a time when…
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Two More Submissions
For those keeping track, we’ve had two more submissions in the Gourmet scavenger hunt. The first comes from William who turned his in later Wednesday night and since I didn’t say “Eastern Standard Time” in my original instructions, he gets the 20 points. Here’s his Flickr page and here are some funny pictures: I like…
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Thank You, Brian S!
A brief aside to thank Brian S. of San Francisco, CA who sent me Alice Waters’ “Chez Panisse Vegetables” through my top secret “Buy Me Things” section. I’ve actually been pining for the Chez Panisse fruit and vegetable books for a while now, and it’s great to finally have one. I’m going to put this…
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A Succinct Survivor Summary
My mom said today that all these Gourmet Survivor rules are too much for her to read. She doesn’t really get it. I imagine that may be true for many of you too—I was so concerned about covering all the bases, I forgot to keep it simple and therefore I am stupid. So here’s a…
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Gourmet Survivor II: The Scavenger Hunt
[For those that missed it, here’s the explanation for Gourmet Survivor II: A Benefit for Katrina Victims. I suggest reading that first, before reading this post.] It’s time for a scavenger hunt, boys and girls. A Flickr scavenger hunt, that is. How many Flickr scavenger hunts have there been, I wonder? Do we have the…
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WBW13: Like Wine For Chocolate (Or: How I Ruined A Perfectly Good Idea!)
When Clotilde announced WBW13: Like Wine For Chocolate (WBW is Wine Blogging Wednesday) I made a mental note to hire a wine tutor, a chocolate tutor, and to steal a recipe from a book that would tell me as much as I needed to know about both. Unfortunately, I totally flaked out and forgot to…
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A Pine Nut Coffee Cake, If You’re So Inclined
This is a pine nut coffee cake: It comes from the Babbo cookbook. It’s the cake I tried to make a few weeks ago, only to fail, leading to the hit film Failure. This time the cake came out a-ok (last time I forgot to add the butter) and the finished product looks pretty and…
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Announcing Gourmet Survivor II: A Benefit for Katrina Victims
The devastation in New Orleans has left many of us, foodbloggers especially, feeling a bit frivolous in the face of catastrophe. We can debate the merits of green risotto and the value of Amazon knife deals, but in the background 10,000 people have died and thousands more need assistance. Surely there’s something we can do.…
