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Adam Roberts

  • The Cool Down

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    New Yorkers, I’m not sure if you noticed, but it was 100 degrees today. Apparently the heat index made it feel like 115, and as I made my way home from West 4th Street up 6th Ave. at 3 PM I suddenly felt myself flushing and growing slightly faint. In my defense, there was a…

  • As Easy As [Pie]

    As Easy As [Pie]

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    Bad pie makers, have I got a tip for you. Buy this month’s Gourmet magazine and follow their technique for making the perfect pie crust. I am a terrible pie maker and I worked up the courage to follow their recipe after too many bad experiences and guess what? This crust was killer. Without any…

  • Floored By Florent?

    Floored By Florent?

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    Last night was supposed to be Fatty Crab night. There were six of us, and when Craig and I arrived we were informed by the rest that Fatty Crab wouldn’t seat all six of us together–they wanted to split us into three and three–and that the wait would be 1.5 hours. “1.5 hours!” everyone yelled.…

  • Workout

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    Craig, after watching Bravo’s “Workout” on TV: “I can’t wait to never watch that show again.”

  • Where Did He Get The Recipe? (Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies)

    Where Did He Get The Recipe? (Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies)

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    There are two things I like to do when I get back from a trip: (1) Eat a burrito; (2) Bake something. When Craig and I got back from D.C. last week, I led him along to the same destination I headed to when I returned from Paris last winter: Chipolte. Nothing hits the spot…

  • Meeting Pim!

    Meeting Pim!

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    I know you all want to hear about my lunch with Ruth Reichl, but Ruth Reichl Ruth Shmeichl—I met PIM this week! She’s here for business and on Tuesday we had lunch at Balthazar. We were supposed to have lunch at a fancy SoHo noodle joint but it was closed for lunch on Tuesdays. So…

  • The Cat Out of the Bag

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    I am very bad at keeping secrets—(I just got in trouble for spilling a few over the weekend)—but I can’t contain my excitement over the big, exciting lunch I just had for my book. Promise not to tell anyone? I just had lunch with Ruth Reichl. And that’s all I can say for now 🙂

  • Improvised Pasta Salad

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    I’m growing quite brave in my kitchen. Whereas before I’d shriek if I so much as missed half an ingredient for a recipe, now I make up my own recipes. Today I came home to found bounty from yesterday’s trip to the farmer’s market (which was an exhausting endeavor—that sun was so blistering hot that…

  • Is all this eating making me fat…?

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    …or did I just get a new MacBook Pro with a built in webcam and fun Photobooth software?? [Hey! You computer geniuses out there, I have a question: what if I wanted to use the computer’s built in camera and my airport to do a live webcast of me cooking in my kitchen? Could I…

  • D.C. Noshing

    D.C. Noshing

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    I approached our trip to D.C. this past weekend with a new attitude. The new attitude went something like this: “Let’s not obsess about our meals; researching and investigating potential dining destinations. Let’s go with the flow and just have fun.” And for the most part that’s what we did. I even forfeited a reservation…