Housekeeping

Tonight’s your last chance to enter my Blue Food Contest. The judge is Michael Ruhlman; the prize, tickets to Blue Man Group. Why aren’t you entering? The deadline was 11 PM, but I’ll give you all night: as long as it comes in before tomorrow morning. I want to see who among you can make…

I’ve received several creative entries for my Blue Food Contest, a contest with a real genuine prize: two tickets to Blue Man Group (NY) on a date of your choosing. Now we have ourselves a judge, a notable one at that: the co-author of the French Laundry Cookbook, author of “The Soul of a Chef”…

Happy Blogiversary, Amateur Gourmet Readers! I feel like we only met last week. Ah, how the time flies…

Tomorrow (Sunday, the 14th) I’m reading from my book at the Good Words Reading Series. It starts at 5 PM and it’s at Good World Bar and Grill, 3 Orchard Street. I’ll be sharing the stage with Andrea Strong and Patrick Martins and afterwards Amateur Gourmet readers are invited to celebrate this site’s third year…

Readers, would you believe it? This Sunday, January 14th, marks the THIRD ANNIVERSARY of this website. Three years! Boy, I’m getting old. But the timing is perfect: Sunday is the day of my reading! I’m reading Chapter Four of my book, “The Amateur Gourmet,”* at Good World Bar & Grill at 3 Orchard Street at…

Just a reminder to Seattle readers: we’re meeting on New Year’s Day, January 1st, at 3:30 PM at Victrola Coffee. Everyone else, I’ll be back in a week. Happy New Year!

Menu For Hope is winding down (the last day is Friday) and there are still plenty of prizes worth bidding on. Here are some developments: – Michael Ruhlman updates his prize with a gift box of charcuterie from Justin Servino of Servino’s Community Butcher in Santa Cruz. Unfortunately, shipping of the meat is limited to…

…why I’ve been so quiet. I’m in Florida! Visiting my family. I just cooked them a huge Mother’s Day dinner tonight with four courses including… oh wait… this is for my book. Yes, that’s right, remember my book? Well when I return to New York tomorrow my summer of book writing will begin. I have…

As many of you may remember, a few months ago I was completely dropped from Google without explanation. In the era before I was dropped, you could Google things like “Il Laboratorio de Gelato” and my review would be on the first page of results. (This got me into trouble, actually: I wrote a negative…