Writing about food since 2004.
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Crossword Cookery
Lately I’ve been on a crossword puzzle kick–my goal is to conquer the Sunday Times Magazine–so I took great pleasure in watching these crossword puzzle geeks try to decipher the culinary clues devised by Will Shortz on this episode of Dinner Impossible. [via Eat Me Daily]
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Cowgirl Cure Auction
Gina DePalma, pastry chef at Babbo and recent James Beard Award winner, is currently fighting cancer and holding an online auction to raise money for ovarian cancer research. Some of the items are pretty stellar, including dinner for 4 at Babbo and, my personal favorite, a year of free coffee from my favorite coffee shop…
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Cheese For Dinner
Murray’s Cheese is often celebrated as the best cheese shop in New York. Frequently I walk past it and wonder, “If I go in there, what will I buy? And how can I make a meal out of that?” I’m very meal-oriented when I food shop: I usually ignore long-term ingredients like high-end oils and…
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How To Roast A Duck
Certain foods are meant to be cooked at home: roast chicken, pot roast, spaghetti and meatballs. Other foods are meant to be eaten out: steak tartare, sushi, a flaming baked Alaska. Sure we can make those latter foods at home, but often times they’re not worth the hassle or the danger (raw steak at home?…
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Kimchi Fried Rice
The road to dinner may be paved with good intentions (something healthy), bad intentions (something naughty), but most frequently it’s paved with whatever you have lying around. And in my case, a few days ago, that happened to be kimchi and rice. The rice I keep with the pasta and polenta as an always-on-hand base…
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Pim’s Tweetcipe
For those who thought my Kimchi Fried Rice post used too many words, check out Pim’s Tweetcipe version: “hot wok, oil sizzles, garlic+grnd pork to brown, toss kimchi, push aside, crack eggs, whip&in goes rice, TOSS+s&p+pinch sugr, grn onion DONE.” I hate to admit it, but hers actually sounds better.
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The Steak Spoon
In the comments for the perfect steak video I linked to yesterday (which is already a big hit, thanks for watching it!) someone wrote: “What is w/ the spoon? Where [are] your tongs?” It’s a great question because it IS a little unusual to flip your steak over with a spoon, isn’t it? The answer…
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Perfect Steak
I don’t want to toot my own horn, so I won’t: I’ll toot the horn of Chris Lim of BLT steak. In our latest Food2 video this genius chef teaches me a technique for making steak at home that is so perfect, so dead-on that I will never ever ever make steak any other way…
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Broadway Picks
A quick detour from food for a second. You all know I’m a theater lover (and a certified playwright) so here are two picks for shows I think you’ll enjoy if you’re coming to New York.The first, “Reasons To Be Pretty,” is the latest from Neil Labute (and a Tony nominee for Best Play). If…
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American Italian vs. Italian Italian (Carmine’s & Sfoglia)
My dad and I often have a debate about food. It usually begins when my dad says, “This restaurant sucks.” You see, my dad likes food that is familiar and when it comes to food that’s familiar he loves Italian food. But a very specific kind of Italian food: he loves American Italian food.
