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Adam Roberts

  • Single Occupancy Restaurant Bathroom Pet Peeves #1 & #2

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    #1: You are in a single-occupancy bathroom and you lock the door. You begin to do your business and someone comes along and jiggles the handle. This someone–we’ll use the name Hank–doesn’t stop there. Even though Hank can tell that the door is locked, he must persist. He jiggles harder, he shakes the door, he…

  • Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

    Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

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    Are you sick of Thanksgiving yet? You should be! For the past few weeks, every website, every magazine, every food guru has been espousing the merits of dressing vs. stuffing, cajoling you to make your own cranberry sauce and badgering you to brine your turkey. Now that the big day is over, Thanksgiving Talk is…

  • Live Thanksgiving Broadcast #2

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    [Note: After posting this, I figure you may want some explanation as to who everyone is: are you ready? First you’ll see my mom and dad, then you’ll see the Johnson family–that’s my brother’s girlfriend Tali’s family–her father, Craig, her sister Mia and poking around there my grandmother (my mom’s mom); in the next room…

  • Live Thanksgiving Broadcast #1

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    Thanksgiving; 12:29 PM. (Recorded at 11:33) https://youtu.be/FEeHgREiTzQ

  • Thanksgiving Status Report

    Thanksgiving Status Report

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    I’m not sure what I’m more stressed about: cooking this dinner for sixteen people or writing this post! There’s a lot to talk about so I’m just going to shoot this out like an email and hope for the best… are you ready? Here we go…

  • Hey Floridians

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    I’m doing a reading at the Boca Raton Barnes & Noble (click for info) this Sunday, the 18th, at 2 PM. Come on out and meet my entire family as they kvell and cheer and say, “He may not be our son the lawyer, but he’s our son the author and that’s good enough for…

  • Music While You Eat, Music While You Cook

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    Mario Batali has a video on Serious Eats (click here) in which he talks about the music at his restaurants: he says that during the day he plays opera to keep things relaxed; at night he plays pop music to keep tables moving. This immediately made me think of my local coffee shop.

  • What was the best thing you ate this weekend?

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    My answer’s easy: we had leftover basil from a soup I made on Friday night (a Tuscan bean soup that I’ll tell you about later in the week). I whipped up a quick pesto–garlic, pine nuts, and salt zapped with the basil and then olive oil streamed in through the tube, grated Parmesan added at…

  • Have you ever…

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    …spent two hours on a post and then, just before clicking post, accidentally closed the window and lost everything? Well I just did! I need to go for a walk.

  • Which food magazine has the best Thanksgiving issue?

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    I just received Gourmet’s Thanksgiving issue in the mail and taken alongside Bon Appetit’s (which I read in the store) plus Food & Wine’s and Saveur’s, there’s an abundance of ideas for what to make this Thanksgiving. Thus I turn to you, readers: which food magazine do you like the most for Thanksgiving? Which magazine’s…