Writing about food since 2004.
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Gourmet Survivor II: $953 raised so far, Farewell Kathy, and the New Challenge
$953 Boy, what a wonderful first round we had: all the entries were fantastic, and even more fantastic: we raised $953 for Katrina victims! Go us! (If you don’t believe me, check out our donation page.) Battle Po’boy Results I had a big dilemma just now tallying up the votes in Battle Po’boy. It was…
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Eating Grenouille at La Grenouille
If you live in New York or even if you don’t, you’ve probably seen an ad for La Grenouille. With its particular font and style, you see it in the back of Playbills at Broadway shows. You see it in The New Yorker and sometimes in the New York Times Magazine section. Such blatant commercialism…
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Gourmet Survivor II, Round One: Battle Po’boy
The results are in for round one of our Survivor competition and let me tell you, they are way impressive! You really won’t believe what beautiful jobs all the players did and how generous our coaches were with their time and storage space! But now it’s on you, readers. Only you can determine who will…
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I’ve Got Friends in High Places…Well one, her name is Molly and she works at The Union Square Cafe
It’s difficult to gauge my success here on the world wide web in the context of the world at large. Yes, many people read my food blog but how many people in the world know what a food blog is? I rest my case. But my friends are eager supporters of what I do. Take…
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I Went To Fashion Week
This is not food-related, but John Kessler–the former food critic at the Atlanta Journal Constitution (and the one who profiled my site in June 2004)–invited me to join him at New York’s Fashion Week on Wednesday because he’s doing a fashion week feature in the AJC and wanted me to be his professional celebrity spotter.…
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I Made A Poster
I discovered QOOP through Kottke and it lets you print and make posters of your Flickr photos. Since I started using Flickr at the beginning of the summer, I basically had a record of everything I ate this summer. And I made a QOOP poster reflecting that for (appx) $9.99. It’s hanging next to my…
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I Started School Again
In case you’re wondering why this blog has been so quiet this week (Gourmet Survivor II notwithstanding), it’s because I started my final year (and I mean FINAL year) of graduate school. Among my classes, I’m taking a class in animated sitcom with the guy who wrote the Marine Biologist episode of “Seinfeld” (he’s also…
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Gourmet Survivor II: Coaches and the First Challenge (‘Po Boy!)
Players: here are your coaches. You are each, for various reasons based on various whims, paired with a coach who will: (a) coach you through each round, suggesting recipes, techniques, strategies, etc; and (b) host your entry when it is due. It is your responsibility to get in touch with them through their sites [unless…
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And the winners are…
After much work tallying up the points and clicking through thousands (ok, maybe hundreds) of pictures, here are the winners of the Gourmet Survivor II Scavenger Hunt. Tomorrow these winners will be paired with food blogging coaches and hosts who will work with them on Round One of our competition—assignment to be announced tomorrow. Many…
