Writing about food since 2004.
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Adam Roberts
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Easy Living
I’ve been cooking so much lately, it’s hard to keep up with all the pictures I’m taking and stories I’m collecting. Well, not stories really, but spontaneous recipes built around farmer’s market ingredients. I share Meg’s sentiment that the farmer’s market is surprisingly expensive, but I find that there are ways around it. For example,…
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Ooh La La, Fancy French Toast
What to do with the leftover peasant bread you bought for the Eggs in Purgatory I championed in a video last week? After all, you had the bread sliced at the store and fresh bread like that goes stale pretty quick. Let’s see there’s eggs in the fridge, vanilla, milk… hmmm… why, could we make…
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Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television
I don’t like pain, I don’t like inflicting pain. But the question remains: do I like to watch pain inflicted on others? I was forced to tackle this question tonight sitting through “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox. It’s not hard to imagine Gordon Ramsay dressed in leather, cracking a real whip as his reality show minions…
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Being Philip Roth at Barney Greengrass
I recently finished reading Philip Roth’s “Operation Shylock” (a fun, if challenging, Roth read) and discovered, upon reaching the book’s final chapter, that the last scene occurs at a place I knew lots about but never visited: Barney Greengrass. What follows is a brilliant section that perfectly describes the scene and the role it plays…
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Cookbook Awards
I’m not one to start a meme—heck, memes are so five minutes ago—but let’s just say that I had an idea tonight and if you like this idea you should take it and use it on your own website. The idea involves taking a picture of all your cookbooks grouped together and then giving awards…
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You Will Rue The Day That You Don’t Make This Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Click here find yourself transported to the best recipe I’ve yet done with strawberries and rhubarb either in combination or individually. This recipe is so dyn-o-mite that like a Mark Twain character I couldn’t resist scooping up the chunk that you see missing and shoveling it into my mouth with reckless abandon only thirty minutes…
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Dirty Sugar Cookies and Vegetarian Dim Sum
When Ayun Halliday asked me to participate in her Dirty Sugar Cookies virtual book tour, I began to question how best to host someone virtually. Would I build a virtual platform and invite a virtual audience? Would there be a virtual punch bowl and virtual karaoke? No, this didn’t seem right. So I turned the…
