Adam Roberts

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Babbo is located on Waverly between 6th Avenue and Washington Square West and I walk past it several times a week on my way back home from school. Every time I pass it my body tingles a little the way your body tingles when you see someone attractive through a train window pulling away from…

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Here are the answers to the Bouillabaisse game. No one got all five, but two people got four: Gretchen and Emily. Good job, Gretchen and Emily! You only missed the first one, which was tough… here they are: 1. Alice B. Toklas 2. Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa) 3. Julia Child 4. Moi 5. Anthony Bourdain…

I just watched 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould while reading a certain famous cookbook (I’m a multi-tasker) and I came up with a game called “Five Prefaces to Bouillabaisse.” Here’s how it works. In a moment, I will type out five prefaces to Bouillabaisse. Four of them come from either famous cookbooks or famous…

“Well I don’t want no Anna Zabba Don’t want no Almond Joy There ain’t nothing better Suitable for this boy Well it’s the only thing That can pick me up Better than a cup of gold See only a chocolate Jesus Can satisfy my soul.” – Tom Waits, “Chocolate Jesus” Chocolate lovers are strange people.…

Continuing to plow my way through the Amanda Hesser canon, tonight I attempted her Chef’s Salad. I blame the results not on her recipe but on my ingredients. And their preparation. Ok, and a little on her recipe. Let’s see: her chef’s salad contains romaine lettuce, chicken, bacon, egg and avocado. I had fun multi-tasking–boiling…

As usual, Amy Sedaris made an appearance today at Joe’s on Waverly bearing a tray of cupcakes. I was there with John and soon after Amy left, John purchased Amy’s holiday-appropriate confection: “Where does she buy these things?” asked John, removing the plastic bunny head from the cupcake and picking his teeth with it. “I…

I received an e-mail recently telling me that my movies have a “good choice of music/motion” but that I “need to work on the special effects.” So tonight Lisa and I labored over this film which features such dazzling trickery, Speilberg’s bound to call at any moment. (Well, at least the music’s fun.) Hope you…