Writing about food since 2004.
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Adam Roberts
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Congratulations to Pim and all the other participating food bloggers: Menu For Hope III has been a triumph in every way. Thanks to everyone who contributed; especially those of you who picked my prizes! Can’t wait to put them together…
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Seattle Meet-Up (What Are You Doing New Year’s Day?)
After the overwhelming response to my Seattle Party post, I’ve decided to have a meet-up! You’ll get to meet Craig, his sister and friends and maybe even a famous blogger or two. You’ll also have the opportunity to sober up after a wild night of New Year’s revelry because we’re meeting for coffee at Victrola:…
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Pot Party
This is the last party in our tour of five parties and you may think that after visiting so many parties, we want to kick back and do illegal drugs–but that’s not what this party’s about! This party is about a different type of pot: pot d’creme. Over the past two weeks I’ve made two…
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Pregnant Surprise Party
How do you surprise a woman who is nine months pregnant on her birthday? Meet Krisse and Josh: Josh e-mailed all of us a few weeks ago that Krisse, his very pregnant wife, was disappointed that she couldn’t celebrate her birthday. So he decided to surprise her. “But wait,” you may ask, “isn’t that dangerous?…
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Latke Party
Meet Ramona, co-host of our first party–a latke party that I attended with Stella the other day. Ramona is the wife of one of my former teachers, a teacher who enjoys his anonymity. Suffice it to say that I was flattered to be invited to this teacher’s latke party (I didn’t even know this teacher…
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Seattle Party
This party’s a week away but thought I’d give a heads up. Guess where I’m heading next Wednesday? To Seattle to visit Craig and his family for New Year’s. Any tips on where I should go when visiting this very far away city? Any Seattle readers out there who are dying to meet me? Chime…
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Fiber Party
This next party is a party we’ll want to leave fast. I’m embarrassed to say that my mother is the host. “Adam,” she said to me yesterday, “I have a great recipe I found from Hungry Girl.” My mom reads a diet-oriented food site called Hungry Girl which, I have come to believe, is the…
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Final Prize Push
Menu For Hope is winding down (the last day is Friday) and there are still plenty of prizes worth bidding on. Here are some developments: – Michael Ruhlman updates his prize with a gift box of charcuterie from Justin Servino of Servino’s Community Butcher in Santa Cruz. Unfortunately, shipping of the meat is limited to…
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Ten Food-Related Items That Make Good Gifts
Here’s a difference between journalism and blogging: the former relishes the new, the hot, the of-the-moment. Blogging, on the other hand, can pull back and talk about subjects that may be a bit dated but are, nonetheless, important and personal to the blogger. For example, book reviews only review new books but I just finished…
