Adam Roberts

I purchased The Saveur 100 yesterday—the yearly masterlist of all things vital in the culinary world. Of course, any list like this is arbitrary (see, for example, People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue—if it weren’t arbitrary, I’d surely be in there along with Don Knotts), and so one must take it with a grain of salt.…

Amateur Gourmet Survivor Champ Andrea urged me in a long-ago e-mail to try F&B. “It’s amazing,” she wrote in her e-mail. “Seriously.” I passed F&B many times on my excursions across 23rd street. It’s across the street from the movie theater. It’s next door to the Krispy Kreme and Ben & Jerry’s. It’s near Starbucks,…

Categories collide in this post. Yesterday, I went to see Michael Frayn’s “Democracy” with Kirk, and James Felder (he of his own category) decided to meet us. We deferred to Jim Leff’s “Gourmet Guide” (that of the present category) and decided to lunch at Sapporo. Here’s James, Kirk and some stranger standing beneath the sign.…

Hey, check it out: Food bloggers chronicle their delicious obsessions. Here’s the bit about us: “Another oft-cited blog is Adam Roberts’s the Amateur Gourmet, this year’s ”humor” winner. It’s easy to see why: Aside from the site’s snappy prose, its ”Saturday Night Live”-worthy comedy sketch mpegs, such as ”Great Moments in Musical Theater Featuring Eggs”…

30 Minutes To Happpiness (1) Buy a bag of Ghiardelli Semi-Sweet chocolate chips. (2) Follow the instructions for Chocolate Chip Bars. (3) Bake them. (4) Smell them. (5) Enjoy them. (6) Ah, happiness.

There are days when, in the morning, while throwing books into my bag and planning my day I decide: “Tonight we shall cook a splendid dinner. Not sure yet what the splendid dinner will be. Therefore, we will put a cookbook in our bag and decide later.” Today was that sort of day. I almost…

Dear Waiter, How are you? I am fine. I really enjoyed your service last night at the Dosa Hut. Lisa did too. We admired your knowledge of the menu. For example, when I said: “Which bread is most like naan?” you quickly pointed us in the right direction. You refilled our water glasses with impressive…

As a special treat for you, my dedicated readers, I present a video I made from the weekend. Yes I, your beloved Gourmet, lugged a video camera aboard the Amtrack train and proceeded to leave the connecting wire in Lauren’s apartment before I left. I bought a new one today and spent HOURS making this…

Today I kept my readers in deep, profound suspense by keeping my D.C. Weekend experience a secret. What did he do? What did he eat? You guys seriously had no idea. Well now let us pull back the curtain and reveal all the remnants of the food inside my stomach. What’s that we see there?…

Last week, I began a new category: “Leffing New York.” In it, I planned to use Jim Leff’s “Eclectic Gourmet Guide to Greater New York City” to find cool and interesting places to eat. Since then I received an e-mail from noneother than the man himself, the founder of Chowhound–Mr. Jim Leff. Here is a…