Writing about food since 2004.

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  • Ten Food-Related Items That Make Good Gifts

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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…

  • Snacking

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    Once I had friends over to watch a movie. I made brownies. When the friends finished the brownies, one friend–a new friend–went into my kitchen and looked around. He opened the fridge, he opened the cabinets. “Aren’t you supposed to be some kind of gourmet?” he said. “Yes,” I replied. “Then how come you don’t…

  • The Bread Parade

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    I’m a man of my word and so when I promised in my bread post that if you made bread I would post a picture of your bread on my blog, I wasn’t lying. I did two follow-up posts with people and their bread but then the bread pictures kept coming. Fifteen in total: that’s…

  • Some eat like a pig…

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    …others eat from a pig: That’s me at Daisy May’s, celebrating the launch of Serious Eats (I stole the picture from the Serious Eats photo pool.) What’s it like putting on rubber gloves and digging into a pig carcass for your grub? It’s pretty fun. And the meat is really juicy. My favorite part was…

  • Go To Turkey, See A Play, And Eat Pie

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    Go To Turkey, See A Play, And Eat Pie

    Finding a good, cheap place to eat near the theater district is a challenge I often undertake. Sure there’s 9th avenue, but there are more doozies than dazzlers there, I’m afraid. The one exception, of course, is Esca–a restaurant that plays an important part in my book–but a restaurant that can be prohibitively expensive. So…

  • Quick Nibbles

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    Three quick nibbles. – Save the date! I’m speaking at my first food panel ever, reading a chapter from my book on Sunday 1/14 at 5 PM at Good World, located at 3 Orchard Street, between Canal and Division. I’ll be sharing the stage with Andrea Strong and Patrick Martins. Can’t wait to see you…

  • A Quick Break With Lemon Risotto

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    &tBefore we get back to Menu For Hope III

  • A Blind Date At Babbo

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    A Blind Date At Babbo

    A few months ago, at the end of September, John Kessler–former food critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constiution and one of our nation’s best food writers–e-mailed me. John and I met back when I lived in Atlanta. He wrote a really kind and thorough piece about me just when I was starting out (you can read…

  • Service

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    Tonight I met Craig’s mom and sister for the first time (they’re visiting from Washington State) at one of my favorite restaurants, Prune. The reservation was for 8:30 and Craig and I arrived at 8 to have drinks at the bar. When Craig’s mom and sister arrived (at exactly 8:30, perfectly prompt) the hostess told…

  • Why French People Don’t Get Cold: Pot-Au-Feu!

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    Check out my latest Serious Eats comic strip by clicking this picture of pot-au-feu: