Writing about food since 2004.
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Adam Roberts
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Dinner Dish (2/10/10)
Last week I tried an experiment based on something I saw my friend Jeffery Self do a few days prior: I hosted a LIVE video Q&A on a site called ustream.tv. I called the show “Dinner Dish,” announced it 5 minutes before I did it on Twitter, and about 14 people came (including my mom)…
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I Heart February
Every so often, when our lovely and talented banner illustrator Lindy Groening designs a new monthly banner, she asks me to send her some pictures of myself in various poses to fit into the banner scheme. Imagine my shock when, last week, she asked me to send her NAKED pictures of myself for this month’s…
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The Best Meatloaf I’ve Ever Had
It’s hard to get excited about meatloaf. That is, unless you’re standing in the kitchen at Craft in New York and Chef Damon Wise (Tom Colicchio’s right-hand man) is mixing together ground beef, pork, crisp shitakes (that taste like bacon), golden soffrito, soy sauce, fresh oregano and Parmesan cheese. The resulting meatloaf–which Chef Wise called…
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Food Writing 101
For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, some exciting news: I’ll be teaching an online food writing class for the Gotham Writers’ Workhop next month. The class is eleven weeks, features direct feedback from yours truly on your writing samples, and–the coolest part–a workshop with New York Times food writer extraordinaire, Kim…
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How To Cook On A Budget
I didn’t grow up in a house with cooking, so food shopping was always a bit casual: a box of this, a bag of that. We’d have Fruit Roll-Ups in the cabinet and ice cream sandwiches in the freezer and so, when I became an adult and lived in my first adult apartment in college,…
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Thomas Keller’s Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables
Roasting a chicken is a very personal thing; those of us who are regular chicken roasters (and, in the winter, roasting a chicken is almost a weekly act for me) know what we like. For me, that’s a combination of fennel seeds, cayenne pepper, and kosher salt on the outside of the skin and thyme…
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Fill ‘Er Up
Are you cold? I know the feeling which is why this month’s banner puts me to work helping you overcome the chill. Thanks, of course, to our marvelous illustrator Lindy Groening (this month’s one of my favorites) and to Justin Dickinson for making the banner fly. Now: would you like yours milk, bittersweet or unleaded?…
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Where To Have a Wedding Brunch in NYC?
My friend recently got engaged (woohoo!) and now she’s trying to figure out where to have her wedding in New York. I actually get e-mails quite a bit from people getting married in New York looking for venue suggestions and I rarely know what to tell them. So what say you, married New Yorkers? Where’s…
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Summer in Winter
December is a deceptive month. You have the Christmas songs and the decorations and the temperature goes up and down and hints, rather cruelly, that maybe, just maybe, it won’t be a bitter cold winter after all. Then January hits and you’re walking down the street with your nose falling off from frostbite and you…
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Who’s Going To Win Top Chef?
This season of Top Chef has been my favorite so far. The chefs are more talented than they’ve ever been, the focus has been on the food not chef antics (well, except for everyone’s conflict with Robin) and somehow the Vegas setting, which might’ve undermined the shows credibly, has allowed for some of the world’s…
