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Adam Roberts
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David Lebovitz’s Malted Milk Ice Cream: The Song
Welcome to Music Week! Every post this week (except for the one below) will feature a song penned and performed by yours truly (and maybe a few special guests). To start out the week, I thought long and hard about what would inspire me musically. And then I remembered this: That is the tub of…
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The First Review
Before we start singing (Happy Music Week!), here’s something to sing about: the first review of my book, via Publisher’s Weekly! The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop and Table-Hop Like a Pro (Almost) Just a typical Jewish law student who returned to New York to study playwriting, Roberts forsook torts and all things dramaturgical…
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Music Week 2007
Next week is MUSIC WEEK at The Amateur Gourmet. Every post will be written as a song! I know, crazy huh? Here’s the thing: I bet many of you are talented musicians too. So over the weekend if you’re inspired to write a song about food, please do so and then videotape yourself (or your…
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For The Love of Pavlova
A miracle took place in my oven the other day. Set to 170 degrees, I placed a baking sheet inside with a mound of beaten egg whites and sugar, and out came this: That is pavlova. It’s named after the ballerina Anna Pavlova. I’ve seen Julia Child make it, Nigella Lawson and The Barefoot Contessa…
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Wednesday Wade-Through (6/6/07)
This was fun to do last week so I thought I’d do it again. As you all know, Wednesday is food day in the nation’s papers. For your convenience, I will wade through everything (including food blogs too) to find the best for you to read today. Why? Because I like you!
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New York in a Box
Remember when Pim did Menu for Hope III and I auctioned off New York in a Box, promising to send the winner a package filled with New York goodies? And also promising to make a video of the goodies I was going to send? Well, it’s been a few months but I finally came through…
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My Lunch at the Condé Nast Cafeteria
Psssst… don’t tell anyone, but I’m about to sneak you into the Condé Nast cafeteria. That’s right. This is where Anna Wintour (you know, Meryl Streep’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada”) goes to eat, alongside the fine people from Gourmet, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and so on. People are fascinated with the place-they’re…
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A Tale of Two Burgers: The Corner Bistro & Prune
Clotilde just completed her book tour (I love the video of her giving a talk at Google) and I am honored to say that Craig and I were co-Chairmen of the Official Welcoming Committee, ushering Mme. Clotilde to her first American nosh-spot on a tour that would take her through Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and San…
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Video Podcast: The Gum Experiment
Wrigley’s sent me a giant black box, last week, with the words “Five is the New Black.” The box was filled with gum, their new “Five” gum, and the flavors had crazy names like Cobalt, Rain and Flare. I said to Diana, “Do you think you could guess which was which if you tasted them?”…
