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  • Le Bernardin Responds

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    You may recall my post No Jacket Required (An Anti Dress-Code Manifesto) in which I argued that restaurants shouldn’t impose a dress code. Subsequent to that post, I took one commenter’s suggestion and reached out to Le Bernardin, one of the restaurants mentioned in the piece, for comment regarding their dress code. I spoke to…

  • A New Banner, Illustrator Wanted

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    Clear your cache, friends, and enjoy this month’s new banner and color scheme! Thanks to Leah (the designer), Justin (the web guy), and Erin (the illustrator) who, sadly, retires as our illustrator this month. Which leads to the following: Hey, have you ever wanted to make an Amateur Gourmet banner? We’re looking for someone who…

  • My Favorite Manifesto Comment

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    I’ve really enjoyed reading your responses to my Anti Dress-Code Manifesto (which was difficult to punctuate, by the way: is it Anti-Dress-Code?), but my favorite was the last one written by Natty of Life Is A Feast. Here’s what she had to say: “From a woman’s perspective, I like dress codes because, come on, it’s…

  • Quick Notes

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    (1) Clear your cache and enjoy the new springy banner, a nice corollary to this week’s FN Dish. Thanks Erin, Leah and Justin, once again, for your great work. (2) My weekly features–Tuesday Techniques and Music While You Eat–will now be more sporadic than weekly. I’d rather do thoughtful posts every now and then than…

  • A Comments Freeze

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    An e-mail from Dreamhost (the company that hosts my blog) today informed me that because of spam and excessive comments in my archives (over 20,000!) they were going to put a freeze on my comments. Obviously, this is a big deal because comments are such a big part of the site. So please sit tight…

  • April in Paris

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    Clear your cache and behold this month’s beautiful Parisian banner. Thanks, once again, to Illustrator Erin, Designer Leah and Web Guy Justin for all your work. Fun Fact: I once had a babysitter named April Lynn Paris!

  • Comment Policy

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    I recently did an interview with Express (A Publication of The Washington Post) and the interviewer, Stefanie Gans, asked me: “What’s your policy on comments? Do you keep all of them? Even the offensive ones?” I answered: “I think of comments like guests at a dinner party: If someone said this at a dinner party…

  • Is this better?

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    For those of you who told me to resize my pictures, my wonderful design team–Leah & Justin–walked me through the process and now we can compare the results. This is how a picture used to appear on my site: And this is what it looks like when I resize it in iPhoto to have a…

  • Atlanta Meet-Up: Dancing Goat, Decatur, Saturday 3/8 3 PM

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    Here’s the address: 419 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue Decatur, GA 30030 (404) 687-1100 Hope to see you there! Adam

  • An Arty Banner & An Atlanta Meet-Up

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    First things first, please clear the cache of your web browser and reload the page and behold the fun and fantastic new creation from my fun and fantastic design team Erin, Leah and Justin. I smile just thinking about. Second, it’s been almost FOUR YEARS since I left the birthplace of this blog, Atlanta, GA…