Writing about food since 2004.
Category
Essays
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Eggs Benedict Arnold
Hey, as a supplement to the post below, check out my new piece for Serious Eats: Eggs Benedict Arnold. Enjoy!
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My Interview With Nigel Slater
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you my first ever professional food writing piece—a Salon.com interview with Nigel Slater. He was a pleasure to talk to, hope you enjoy reading it.
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Deep Thoughts About The Food Panel at The 92nd Street Y
Enjoyed the panel discussion tonight at the 92nd Street Y moderated by a blogger and featuring Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert (of Le Bernardin) and Gabrielle Hamilton (of Prune). The most fascinating part, for me, was the bit at the end about Rocco Dispirito as a cautionary tale of a chef who loses touch with his…
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Fat
I was thinking today about the word “fat.” It’s easy to forget, once you’ve entered the world of food, how the rest of the world hears that three-letter word, a word that promises such ecstasy but which suffers such a severe stigma. Watching my usual Sunday helping of Tivoed cooking shows–Lydia’s Family Table, Barefoot Contessa,…
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Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television
I don’t like pain, I don’t like inflicting pain. But the question remains: do I like to watch pain inflicted on others? I was forced to tackle this question tonight sitting through “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox. It’s not hard to imagine Gordon Ramsay dressed in leather, cracking a real whip as his reality show minions…
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Am I A Hippie?
Walking past the sea of buttons I always see displayed at the north end of Union Square, one such button caught my eye. I’m not one to browse buttons, but this button called to me. “C’mon man,” said the button. “You know you share my ideology.” I asked the button man how much it cost.…
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Writing School
Today I graduate writing school and I officially become a writer. The words you’re reading now are not sanctioned yet–give it a few hours and suddenly you’ll realize how un-degreed these sentences were. I kid, of course, because graduating writing school is not like graduating medical school or (ahem) law school–you can be a practicing…
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Student Dining Day
Broadway shows offer student rush tickets an hour before the curtain goes up. You show your student ID, pay $15 and sometimes you get seats all the way in the back but other times you get seats all the way in the front. The concept behind this, surely, is to draw younger audiences to the…
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Top Chef
Bravo markets “Top Chef” with such fervor you can’t tell if they’re really really nervous or really really proud. After watching the first episode, I think they should be both. They should be proud for landing a genuine food personality as their judge (Tom Collichio, of Craft fame) and for assembling a “motley crew” (as…
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What I Can Tell You About The Taping I Attended of “Iron Chef America” Without Having To Pay The Food Network $1,000,000
The Food Network really doesn’t want me to tell you what I witnessed on Monday, January 23rd. Upon arriving at The Food Network studios in The Chelsea Market, they had my companions and I sign a piece of paper that made us swear we wouldn’t reveal any secrets from the episode we were about to…
