Writing about food since 2004.
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3 Posts I Almost Wrote This Morning Before Leaving For Work
1. A post about how even though I pretend to love food and eating, I think what I really love is sitting. 2. A post about the back pages of food magazines–which ones are the best, which ones are the worst. I’m not sure which is the best, but my least favorite is Saveur. It’s…
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Zite with Onions, Sausage & Fennel
It’s a big heaping mess, but boy is it good. The recipe comes from “The Silver Spoon Cookbook,” a birthday gift from Matthew my show’s director and a book that’s called Italy’s version of “The Joy of Cooking.” This specific recipe comes from the special back section where Italian chefs offer up their own favorite…
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Atlanta Meet-Up: Dancing Goat, Decatur, Saturday 3/8 3 PM
Here’s the address: 419 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue Decatur, GA 30030 (404) 687-1100 Hope to see you there! Adam
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The Night I Let Friends Cook For Me
Psychologically speaking, I’m a Jewish mother. I smother those I love with attention, worry, enthusiasm, judgment and, most of all, food. The food bit is a relatively recent development–I wasn’t smothering my high school friends with food–but now that I do cook and cook quite regularly, I have an almost compulsive need to feed others.…
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An Arty Banner & An Atlanta Meet-Up
First things first, please clear the cache of your web browser and reload the page and behold the fun and fantastic new creation from my fun and fantastic design team Erin, Leah and Justin. I smile just thinking about. Second, it’s been almost FOUR YEARS since I left the birthplace of this blog, Atlanta, GA…
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The Best Sushi in Park Slope is at Taro Sushi
The title of this post is a strong statement, one that requires research. And so, after titling this post “The Best Sushi in Park Slope,” I decided to do the required research: I Googled “best sushi park slope” and guess what came up first? A post I wrote last January (click here) that basically said…
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Cassoulet in 10 Easy Steps
When Anthony Bourdain cooks with Michael Ruhlman on the Cleveland episode of “No Reservations,” he layers meat and beans together in a giant drum, tops the whole thing off with breadcrumbs and produces a dish most of us aren’t used to seeing on Food TV (and I say that as someone who now works for…
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Homemade Pizza with Caramelized Onions, Rosemary & Gorgonzola
Sometimes the name of a dish sounds so intimidating your immediate reaction is: “Pish posh! I can’t make that! And why did I just say pish posh?” Such might be the case with the pizza you see above. You hear “pizza” and that doesn’t sound so difficult, but you add “caramelized onions, rosemary and gorgonzola”…
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Ninth Street Espresso
One of the best things about working at Food Network, which is located in the Chelsea Market, is that the elevators that get you up there are directly across from one of the best coffee bars in the city. That coffee bar is Ninth Street Espresso which many of my barista friends (including those that…
