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Adam Roberts
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Nibbles 12.0 (including: Chili, Top Chef, Broadway, Art, and Lamb)
I apologize for my lack of posts towards the end of the week: I had a big one planned and then I decided to watch “You Can Count On Me” for the 8th time on DVD. It’s one of my top five favorite movies, a list that also includes “Defending Your Life” which has two…
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The Salad In Winter
After reading Regina Schrambling’s L.A. Times piece on winter salads last week, I was inspired to make this fennel, green apple and watercress salad from A Voce. There are many wonderful things about this salad, most of all the lemon zest: it makes it so zingy and bright you’ll forget it’s winter (as if the…
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The Thank You Meals: Part Two, Duck Ragu for James (Plus A Wild Walnut Salad)
James, on the other hand, deserved a meal for taking my picture multiple times for my book’s “author photo.” You can see James’s terrific photography on his site, Snapshot Artifact. We went out a few times to get the perfect picture, but nothing was really working. Then James had the idea of taking pictures of…
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The Thank You Meals: Part One, Southern Food for Stella (Cheese Straws, Squash Casserole, Coconut Cream Pie)
One of the perks of being a person who cooks is that, as a person who cooks, you can get people to do things for you in exchange for cooking. So Stella, my dear friend, agreed to cat-sit for me while I was in Seattle if I agreed to cook her a Southern dinner when…
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Food Bully
Not only am I mad with power, I’m also a food bully. Check out my newest piece on Serious Eats.
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I Am Power Mad!
At least New York Magazine thinks so. But calling me a “world class mooch”? I’ve cooked too many meals for my roommates and friends for that title. And as of today I’ve only received two free restaurant meals: the free truffle dinner which was a total fluke (I never thought they’d actually respond to my…
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The Return To Le Cirque
Many people have asked me if we ever took Sirio up on his offer to return to Le Cirque. We did and I wrote an article about which you can read here on Serious Eats. Enjoy!
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We Leave Seattle (with meals at Salumi & Dahlia Lounge)
I knew about Salumi before my thousands of readers told me to go there when I went to Seattle. I knew it because of Mario, because of “Heat” and because, well, because I just knew about it. From the moment I started blogging my Seattle trip my readers have pressed me in the comments: “Did…
