Adam Roberts

Over the past several days I’ve eaten two significant dinners. Which isn’t to say I only ate two dinners. It’s just that the others were insignificant. Last night, for example. What did I eat last night? Oh yes–I ate a burrito at Burritoville. It was insignificant. I had sushi the night of our party. It…

The party was Friday and, to quote Jason Schafer, Lauren and I both turned 26 “without a hitch.” There was music (pumping in from my bedroom via my Airport Express), there were little candles on the tables (purchased from Illuminations at a very low rate (I found it amusing that Illuminations doesn’t sell matches or…

26 years ago at this very moment my mom was panting in a hospital bed as angelic music played and I made my way into the world, fork and knife in hand, lobster bib already in place. Stories are told of me at a young age: I was a glutton for food. Mom says that…

There are three parts to every cooking experience: 1. The planning. 2. The cooking. 3. The result. It is during the planning stages (1) that you anticipate the result (3). During my planning stages (1) for the Pan-Fried Onion dip (see title) I expected that it would come out tasty. In fact, the actual result…

Eating around NYU is often a treat. You’re near the East Village, you’re near the West Village. You have many options available. Sometimes you make good choices, sometimes you make bad choices. But you make choices. Except when you’re force fed in which case you had no choice. But most of the time you aren’t…

So I reached a temporary solution to my space problem which is I started deleting pictures to posts that have no relevance beyond their original amusement factor. Like the time I ate cat food. I don’t think anyone needs to see pictures of me eating cat food anymore. So that should create some temporary space…

We’ve reached an inevitable moment here at The Amateur Gourmet. We have 13 months worth of photos, songs and movies stored on that thing we call the interwebnet and now we’ve hit our capacity. Last night I tried to post pictures from a restaurant and my .mac account told me: “YOU GOT NO SPACE LEFT,…

I know millions of readers are curious about how I spent my Valentine’s Day, but surely you’re more curious to know how Timmy spent his Valentine’s Day. Who’s Timmy? Find out in: Timmy’s Valentine’s Day. A short film by yours truly. Hope you got lots of roses and chocolates and things.