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  • Overrated? Overpriced? Back to Momofuku (Featuring: Soft-Shelled Crab Buns)

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    I admire Momofuku for its food, yes, but also for its sense of humor. Look at what was on the door Thursday night when we went there after class: [For those whose vision precludes them from viewing pictures, it says: “Momofuku’s Overrated and Overpriced!” – Starchefs.com intern.] I like that this is on their door.…

  • Identify This Soup

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    Let’s play a game. If you can be the first person to correctly identify this soup—both what kind of soup it is and where in New York it comes from—I will buy you a bowl of it. No, silly, I won’t eat it with you—I never mingle with the masses. Instead I will send you…

  • Posts I Start Posting And Change My Mind About

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    Some bloggers suffer from lack of inspiration. I actually suffer from the opposite: too many ideas. Sometimes I have to stop myself if I feel like what I’m writing is going to rowl people up in the wrong way. What follows are things I started and then stopped for fear of upsetting you fine people.…

  • Shank Bones and Gefilte Fish: Chronicle of a Second Night Seder

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    How many Jews we got up in this piece? And by “up in this piece” I mean “reading this blog”? Are you baffled by the idea of a seder? Am I about to blow your mind right now with news of an ancient Jewish ritual, commemorating our flight from Egypt into the desert? Are you…

  • Potluck Passover Preparations: Mock Chopped Liver and Nigella Lawson’s Spinach

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    As you will soon read, tonight I sedered at Billy and Kate’s. The rule was: everyone brings something! (This is known in Judaism as “potluck.”) So I scratched my head and did some investigation (what were other people bringing) and settled upon mock chopped liver and Nigella Lawson’s Passover spinach. I can’t type “mock chopped…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies for the Non-Observant

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    I am a bad Jew. Or, at least, a stupid Jew. Maybe just a non-observant one. Anyway, Friday night I started to crave chocolate chip cookies. I searched in my archives and found a comment someone posted linking to the Doubletree Hotel’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Here’s the link! I was intrigued because the…

  • Pre-Theater Bites: Island Burgers and Shakes + Afghan Kebab

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    &tBefore moving to New York my idea of a pre-theater meal was a giant feast with my family at Carmine’s, Ollie’s, or Virgil’s (all owned by the same people, maybe?) Italian, Chinese or Ribs: that’s the sort of stuff you need to nourish you through the fifth reprise of “Do You Hear The People Sing?”…

  • My Favorite Kind of Failure: Another Caramel Corn Catastrophe

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    If I were to move to France, study under Alain Ducasse for a year, then intern for Thomas Keller in California, getting my master chef certification the next year, I would still suck at making caramel corn. It is the bane of my existence. When it comes to caramel corn, I am cursed. So why…

  • You Know Where You Can Stick That Asparagus? A 500 Degree Oven!

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    Let us lead with a lovely food photo–(I like it when my food photos are at the top of the page, like Clotilde and Heidi do on their sites): How scrumptious does that look? Don’t you want to lick the screen? It’s the simplest recipe ever and it comes from Epicurious. Here’s the link for…

  • Fancy Omelette at NoHo Star

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    After class today, Patty, Alex and I were looking for a place to lunch. “Breakfast, actually,” said Alex. “I’m in the mood for breakfast food.” We asked our teacher Gary where to go and he said, “Have you been to NoHo star? It’s got the best breakfast. It’s right around the corner—Bleeker and Lafayette.” So…