Adam Roberts

There is a skill I should have by now that I’m afraid I don’t: it’s the ability to go food shopping, see the ingredients, purchase what’s fresh and create a meal from that. Instead, I almost always (99% of the time) go home, find a recipe and go shopping with the recipe in hand. This…

My Uncle Jerry is a character. He lives in Santa Monica, California and performs frequently at community centers, singing jaunty versions of “If I Was a Rich Man” and “Put on A Happy Face.” His mother (my great-grandmother; Jerry is my grandfather’s brother) was a performer too: we have a VHS of her on The…

Now that spring’s here, carrying my camera everywhere is getting less and less practical. See this new camera is big and bulky—in winter I put it in my puffy coat pocket and barely even noticed it. Now that it’s warm, my coat is becoming less and less necessary—where will I put my camera? I can…

I had an infuriating experience today at Le Pain Quotidien. I’ve only been there once before. I told you about it. Well today I went back. I ordered their egg salad sandwich and a lemonade. A mint lemonade. The mint lemonade costs $2.50 but I thought I’d splurge. WELL. They handed me a plastic cup…

Should I be concerned that in my writing program I am known best not necessarily for my writing or my insightful commentary but for my baking? The director of the department today sampled an oatmeal coconut raspberry bar that I made for my adaptation class and said to my classmates: “Boy are you lucky.” Apprently…

After my success with the River Cafe’s pistachio cake (celebrated, originally, at The Food Section) I decided to go ahead and purchase the book it’s from: Italian Easy by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. You can purchase it here: This book is surely now the most vibrant in my collection. The cover is a shimmering…

Behold Hearth! Hearth is in the East Village on 12th street and 1st Ave. For the longest time I’ve wanted to go there, and on Saturday night the opportunity arose. It arose when I called Lisa at 5 to see what was going on (we decided to hang out Saturday night)—she had to shower and…

I was into nuts this weekend–mostly because I bought wine glasses. See I had wine in my fridge left over from my party. But I felt weird drinking the wine in my circular non-wine glasses. I didn’t have wine glasses. So I went to Fish’s Eddie and bought some wine glasses for cheap. I celebrated…

I ordered Chinese food the other night and found myself with leftover rice: I recalled this rice pudding recipe by Tyler Florence that utilizes already cooked rice. I decided to take advantage of it and make myself dessert. The recipe requires 3 cups white rice cooked and 3 cups milk. I had about 1 cup…