Adam Roberts

How many Jews we got up in this piece? And by “up in this piece” I mean “reading this blog”? Are you baffled by the idea of a seder? Am I about to blow your mind right now with news of an ancient Jewish ritual, commemorating our flight from Egypt into the desert? Are you…

As you will soon read, tonight I sedered at Billy and Kate’s. The rule was: everyone brings something! (This is known in Judaism as “potluck.”) So I scratched my head and did some investigation (what were other people bringing) and settled upon mock chopped liver and Nigella Lawson’s Passover spinach. I can’t type “mock chopped…

I am a bad Jew. Or, at least, a stupid Jew. Maybe just a non-observant one. Anyway, Friday night I started to crave chocolate chip cookies. I searched in my archives and found a comment someone posted linking to the Doubletree Hotel’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Here’s the link! I was intrigued because the…

&tBefore moving to New York my idea of a pre-theater meal was a giant feast with my family at Carmine’s, Ollie’s, or Virgil’s (all owned by the same people, maybe?) Italian, Chinese or Ribs: that’s the sort of stuff you need to nourish you through the fifth reprise of “Do You Hear The People Sing?”…

If I were to move to France, study under Alain Ducasse for a year, then intern for Thomas Keller in California, getting my master chef certification the next year, I would still suck at making caramel corn. It is the bane of my existence. When it comes to caramel corn, I am cursed. So why…

Let us lead with a lovely food photo–(I like it when my food photos are at the top of the page, like Clotilde and Heidi do on their sites): How scrumptious does that look? Don’t you want to lick the screen? It’s the simplest recipe ever and it comes from Epicurious. Here’s the link for…

After class today, Patty, Alex and I were looking for a place to lunch. “Breakfast, actually,” said Alex. “I’m in the mood for breakfast food.” We asked our teacher Gary where to go and he said, “Have you been to NoHo star? It’s got the best breakfast. It’s right around the corner—Bleeker and Lafayette.” So…

Since making my spontaneous salad creation the other night, my leftovers have provoked a very weird snack. This snack is: radishes dipped in dressing. Laugh if you will, but “Radishes Dipped In Dressing” is a lesser known Julia Child cookbook and a hiphop song by Jacques Pepin. There is nothing particularly wonderful or exciting to…