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  • Broadway Stars Eat at Joe Allen

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    Once I went to see a musical with my friend Ricky. Afterwards, we were looking for a place in the theater district to have coffee and dessert and I suggested Joe Allen. “Oh Adam,” he said, “What are you? An old man? Nobody eats at Joe Allen.” But I persisted and we sat and had…

  • My First Flip

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    Not sure if you watch news or look out your window, but in case no one’s told you: there’s a blizzard right now in New York. As far as blizzards go, this is my first. I am enjoying it thoroughly. Mostly, I’ve stayed indoors—but at one point I walked to Whole Foods and there was…

  • Wheeee, We’re in the Sacramento Bee

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    Thanks to those who pointed this out: Finger-clickin’ good (an article on food blogs in The Sacramento Bee). Here’s what it has to say about us: The Amateur Gourmet Site: amateurgourmet.com/ Content: Long and entertaining chronicles of eating adventures by a former law student recognized by The Accidental Hedonist for maintaining the best food blog…

  • What am I, Chopped Liver?

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    A sore throat, a runny nose, even a repetetive sneeze will spray me south two stops on the NR and then two Avenues east, past the trendy people in the East Village, to that bastion of restorative medicine: The 2nd Ave. Deli, home of the city’s most mystically curative chicken soup. I’ve lived here since…

  • Iron Chef America: Flay vs. Bayless

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    I make it a point never to assign myself stories for this site. What keeps everything so fresh and alive is that it’s all spontaneous—if one day I make a lemon tart the next day I may kill a coyote. You never know what you’re going to get. So that’s the first reason I resisted…

  • We Eat Chinatown

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    As you may have noticed, tonight featured a large array of new posts. That’s because I start school again tomorrow and things may get crazy. I won’t neglect you, no, but I won’t be able to spoil you like I have these past few weeks. So as a final capper on five weeks of fun,…

  • Chomper Romper Room: Jacques Torres’s Chocolate Haven

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    There is the kid in all of us and then there is the kid that’s not in all of us. The kid in all of us loves chocolate and Willy Wonka and brightens at the very idea of Jacques Torres’s Chocolate Haven: Located in TriBeCa, this new chocolate factory actually involves the pure production of…

  • Say it with Sabayon: Awe-Inspiring Lemon Sabayon-Pine Nut Tart from The French Laundry Cookbook

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    Now here is a recipe worth knowing. Like the Zuni Cafe cookbook, my French Laundry cookbook has sat mostly ignored in the brief time I’ve owned it. The thing is, it’s so humongous and so intimidating that it’s like bringing “Ulysses” to the beach. It just isn’t done. But last night it was done and…

  • A Cookie is Just a Cookie, But Fig Chicken is from The Zuni Cafe

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    The Zuni Cafe cookbook has been ignored long enough. Silenty it’s sat on my cookbook shelf, batting its eyes as I passed it over for Barefoot contessas and Amanda Hessers. But a few nights ago, while the other cookbooks were out smoking cigarettes, the Zuni Cafe cookbook and I made eye contact. I felt a…

  • Happy One-Year Anniversary!

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    Exactly one year ago tonight I made my first post here at The Amateur Gourmet. The post was titled: The Birth of an Amateur Icon. I wrote: “I’m The Amateur Gourmet: a completely untrained, unaccomplished culinary lout with absolutely no expertise in anything having to do with food. I have an immature palate, an understocked…