Adam Roberts

This is Lisa’s last weekend as a Chelsea resident. When I moved to New York, I moved to Chelsea 10% because it’s a great area and 90% because Lisa lived here. Now she’s moving to Hell’s Kitchen, leaving me alone with Ethan Hawke (the only other Chelsea resident I see on a regular basis.) Whatever…

David and Rebecca (mentioned in the post below) were also really sweet and bought me macaroons from Financier, a place I need to check out on Stone St. Here they are–aren’t they pretty? I’ve already eaten four. They’re terrific. I’d give you some, but they’re mine–get your own!

Meet David and Rebecca. David is an actor whose show “Mama’s Knishes” features him in your kitchen, dressed as his great grandmother cooking knishes for you and telling stories from the past. You can read about it on his website, Knish.org. (Check out the praise from The Wall Street Journal–it even has a cartoon of…

Hey! We’re the site of the week in The Montreal Gazette! Good news, ay? (Or is “ay” Toronto? I’m alienating my new readers!)

If we were in psychoanalysis (and who says we’re not?) we might draw connections between my urge to cook and an unconscious need to mother myself. I wonder if this is true of many cooks? The logic works like this: as a child you are fed and nurtured by your mother–before she’s anything else, she’s…

Check out the “About Me” section. I updated it to make it less offensive(*) and more informative. Enjoy! (*I apologize to anyone I may have offended with the “midget” reference. It is no longer there.)

This is a sad week for me (and many others). One of my favorite teachers, Charlie Purpura, passed away on Monday to the shock and sadness of everyone who knew him. The funeral is tomorrow night so it’s going to be an emotional evening for many of us. If anyone hasn’t seen his movie Heaven…

This chicken chili is pretty good. I’m not wild about it. You won’t see any exclamation marks in this post. It comes from Barefoot Contessa: Parties. I am wild about the Barefoot Contessa. I will give her three exclamation marks: !!! But this chili is a little soupy and a little ridiculous in that her…

(I put great effort into that title. Who knows what song I’m parodying? Who among you, who? Hugh Jackman?) Saturday night I called up my dear friend Diana and said: “Dear friend Diana, with whom are you dining tonight?” And dear friend Diana replied: “With no one, darling, shall we dine?” It was then we…