Writing about food since 2004.
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The Redesign Is Coming…
Prepare for a sleeker, more refined look—with a new banner and better organization and newer fonts. Due date may be as soon as Sunday, but no promises. Stay tuned!
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There’s a Store That I See, Where The Chocolate’s By Kee
On a beautiful day in New York City, it came to pass that two young souls journeyed down Sullivan Street after eating burritos and shopping for chessboards. These souls, yours truly and Stella truly, saw a mysterious vision in the horizon. The vision looked something like this: Kee’s Chocolates? What can this be? We studied…
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Do You Like American Cuisine? I Like American Cuisine: Eisenberg’s Sandwich & Philly Slim’s
My brain and I have a healthy relationship. I give him books and avoid drugs more serious than Flinstone vitamins and he rewards me with pretty constant inspiration. Take the idea I had today: what if I had cultural weeks here at the Amateur Gourmet? Like on different weeks I’d be like: “It’s Korean Week!”…
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Michelin NYC
Thanks to site reader Ian L. for sending the list my way. Here are the results of the Michelin Guide’s scrutiny of New York restaurants. If you want to compare the Michelin guide to my own NY guide, here’s the post with all my New York restaurant reviews. (Missing a few recent additions, unfortunately.) MICHELIN…
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Sophisticated Candy For The Sophisticated Reveler: A Halloween Special
To quote Peter, Paul and Mary: “If I had an orange, I’d make a candied orange peel.” And so it was that I had an orange left over from the recipe below. And so it was that I made candied orange peel. Making candied orange peel is very easy. I used a recipe from foodtv.com…
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If I Were Perky and Had a Cooking Show I Would Make This: Brazilian Chicken with Olives
There are two extremes when it comes to recipes. There are the soul-wrenching deeply-intricate 40-step recipes and then there are the Rachel Ray Sandra Lee Every Day Food 20-second recipes that appeal to working moms or non-working moms with slow reflexes. This recipe is mostly the latter with a hint of the former: it’s an…
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The Second Most Momentous Meeting of Food Bloggers EVER: Derrick “An Obsession With Food” [plus wife!] & Adam “Amateur Gourmet” Dine at Craft
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Those reading since June will remember the first most momentous meeting of food bloggers ever when I dined with Clotilde “Chocolate & Zucchini” at Babbo. Before that I met Danny “A Year In Food” at The Bar Room at The Modern. So that was kind of momentous too. But at the time I didn’t think…
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Salad Inspirations
There’s something thrilling about food shopping without a recipe. Last night I hungered for a salad, and I made my way to Whole Foods (I’ve been making my way to Whole Foods way too often lately) and stood in the produce section waiting for inspiration to alight. “Excuse me,” said a woman, “You’re blocking the…
