Adam Roberts

I am a big nerd who reads Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for pleasure. Not just pleasure: edification. According to the blurbs on the back it is a “nonpareil” (The New Yorker) “the best book of its kind we have” (St. Paul Dispatch) and “as timeless as a book can be in our age…

We are going to do tonight’s posting in one big mega-post. Since I only have two things to talk about–geese and Houston’s–we’ll be ok. Oh, plus there’s popcorn. But first geese.Driving to Houston’s today, some old people were holding up traffic on La Vista Road. I leaned my head out the window like an angry…

It has just come to my attention that today (well, yesterday) is this site’s four month anniversary. My first post was January 14th, 2004 and since today (well, yesterday) is May 14th, 2004, that makes it four months of Amateur Gourmet greatness. To mark the occassion, I just popped two drowsy Sudafeds and I plan…

You know you’ve been blogging too much when you start to repeat yourself. Similarly, you start to repeat yourself when you’ve been blogging too much. Nothing illustrates this better than chicken soup.In February I posted Charitable Chicken Soup for my Roommate’s Soul which featured an Epicurious chicken soup recipe that I can’t seem to locate…

Here is how we play the ingredient game. I type out the ingredients for a food product and you have to guess the product. I will also give you two clues. The winner receives the love and respect of the Amateur Gourmet Community.Two Clues:1. This is a prepackaged product;2. It is desserty in nature.Ingredients: Sugar,…

The secret’s out: I have a cold. Not only that, I gave it to Lauren. We are none too happy.For lunch we souped at Bagel Palace. We were given a choice between traditional chicken noodle soup and just plain noodle soup. We never really asked what the difference was, so we went with traditional and…

It took up too much refrigerator space. I’m moving to New York. It looked so nasty.I mean, look the container was gigantic:Yet for those who followed my travails of bread production as documented in the Funny Food Film “Project Sourdough,” you will be heartbroken to know that tonight I did what was inevitable. I poured…

You know how in “The Shawshank Redemption” the old man, Brooks, kills himself because he can’t adjust to life outside the pen? (Sorry for ruining it, those who haven’t seen it). Well I’m starting to feel his pain. Two days, now, since graduating law school and what have I done with my time? I’ve returned…

Sorry for my bad posting today. I’ve been engaging in brutal Per Se discourse on

I hadn’t realized that people were posting to old questions on The Upper Left Corner. I just skimmed through them now and came across this post from S’kat under “Project Palate Expansion” (in which I urged readers to eat something new and write about it):I know I’m a little late for this one, but what…