Writing about food since 2004.
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Pound Cake and the 12 Hour Fast
After much fanfare, today I finally went to the doctor to have my cholesterol checked. An inept nurse weighed me first and told me I weighed 140 lbs which was shocking because I don’t weigh 140 lbs. Then I realized she had the marker in between 100 and 150 and the small marker on really…
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The Grandma Proof Napkin Dispenser
Long time readers of this site will recall my classic post “On Napkins” in which I wrote: “It’s my grandmother’s fault. Back in the day, we would go to Wendy’s and she would say: ‘go get us some napkins.’ I would come back with two or three and she’d say: ‘No, no, no! Here, let…
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Eating at New York Burger Co. in Chelsea is like going to Rome and eating at Pizza Hut
If there were no Shake Shack, I might have different feelings about New York Burger Co. Shake Shack is on 24th and Broadway in Madison Square Park. New York Burger Co., a chain, recently opened up near me on 21st and 6th. So you see one avenue behind this facade and three avenues up is…
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Food on the Boob Tube
I’d like to share with you several food-related moments from several days of TV watching: (1) The VH1 show “Celebrity Fit Club” is strangely enjoyable. Yes, it’s got all the markings of a crappy reality show: the panel of judges, the challenges, the weigh-ins. But at the end of the day, it takes a certain…
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Rushing at Russ & Daughters
If you had told me last night that within a three hour period the next day I would read the Sunday Times, rush down to the Lower East Side, visit Russ & Daughters for the first time and then grab tickets for the matinee of “Oedipus at Palm Springs” (by The Five Lesbian Brothers (who…
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Farmer’s Market Bounty
Some pretty pictures of the food I made this weekend after trips to the Farmer’s Market. This will be a shortly worded post (gasp! Adam write a shortly worded post?) because I really took these pictures for another project, let’s just not tell anyone I shared them here, k? Red and Yellow Tomatoes with Basil…
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Failure: A Short Film
I could tell you the story involved here, but I think the film speaks for itself. It’s very short and depressing. You’ll love it! Watch “Failure”
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A Cendrillon Story, in which I fall in love with a chicken (PLUS: Sex Toys!)
Patty, my beloved classmate and friend, was very specific in our e-mail exchange regarding the lunch we were to have yesterday. “Someplace exciting and not too expensive,” she wrote. Exciting and not too expensive? Where could we go? Then an image popped into my head: I’d been in SoHo the other day working on a…
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Three Cheers for Waldy’s Clam Pizza
A few weeks ago I reviewed Waldy’s and now my review is the number one result when you Google “Waldy’s.” That’s a lot of pressure. Also, perhaps because of the post’s Googleability, Waldy himself stumbled upon it and left a comment. That was exciting. Hi Waldy! So in that last review I said I liked…
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You Can Beat These Beets, Despite My Beautiful Presentation
I went to Whole Foods yesterday with a goal in mind: Heirloom tomatoes. I knew they sold them at the farmer’s market but it was late and I knew Whole Foods (which is way closer) carried them too. So I went there with the Barefoot Contessa’s heirloom tomato salad recipe in mind (tomatoes, fennel, an…
