Writing about food since 2004.
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Adam Roberts
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Food on the Boob Tube
I’d like to share with you several food-related moments from several days of TV watching: (1) The VH1 show “Celebrity Fit Club” is strangely enjoyable. Yes, it’s got all the markings of a crappy reality show: the panel of judges, the challenges, the weigh-ins. But at the end of the day, it takes a certain…
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Rushing at Russ & Daughters
If you had told me last night that within a three hour period the next day I would read the Sunday Times, rush down to the Lower East Side, visit Russ & Daughters for the first time and then grab tickets for the matinee of “Oedipus at Palm Springs” (by The Five Lesbian Brothers (who…
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Farmer’s Market Bounty
Some pretty pictures of the food I made this weekend after trips to the Farmer’s Market. This will be a shortly worded post (gasp! Adam write a shortly worded post?) because I really took these pictures for another project, let’s just not tell anyone I shared them here, k? Red and Yellow Tomatoes with Basil…
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Failure: A Short Film
I could tell you the story involved here, but I think the film speaks for itself. It’s very short and depressing. You’ll love it! Watch “Failure”
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A Cendrillon Story, in which I fall in love with a chicken (PLUS: Sex Toys!)
Patty, my beloved classmate and friend, was very specific in our e-mail exchange regarding the lunch we were to have yesterday. “Someplace exciting and not too expensive,” she wrote. Exciting and not too expensive? Where could we go? Then an image popped into my head: I’d been in SoHo the other day working on a…
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Three Cheers for Waldy’s Clam Pizza
A few weeks ago I reviewed Waldy’s and now my review is the number one result when you Google “Waldy’s.” That’s a lot of pressure. Also, perhaps because of the post’s Googleability, Waldy himself stumbled upon it and left a comment. That was exciting. Hi Waldy! So in that last review I said I liked…
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You Can Beat These Beets, Despite My Beautiful Presentation
I went to Whole Foods yesterday with a goal in mind: Heirloom tomatoes. I knew they sold them at the farmer’s market but it was late and I knew Whole Foods (which is way closer) carried them too. So I went there with the Barefoot Contessa’s heirloom tomato salad recipe in mind (tomatoes, fennel, an…
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An Upper East Side Day: Eli Zabar’s E.A.T., The Guggenheim and Lady M’s
My summer’s almost at a close. I start school again one week from Tuesday (whoah!) and all the goals I had for myself this summer (a) get in shape, (b) write a masterpiece, (c) star in a one-man show exploring the life of Suzanne Somers (damn! she beat me to it!) shall remain goals for…
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What’s Pinocchio’s motivation in that pizza commercial?
Maybe it’s the drama school student in me, but I’m having trouble with the DiGorno pizza commercial that comes on all the time now. For those that haven’t seen it, Gipetto’s in his workshop with Pinocchio and he says something like, “Pinocchio if you tell one more lie you’ll never become a real boy.” Then…
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The Ins and Outs of Indoor Grilling (Featuring: Lamb Skewers with Apricots)
Chris Schlessinger and John Willoughby have a great book on grilling (surely one of the best) called “License to Grill.” (You can see it under my favorite cookbooks on the lower left hand of the site.) In the opening chapter, they write: “Grilling hasn’t changed all that much since the day some really smart cave-guy…
