Writing about food since 2004.
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A Menu For Hope: Tom Kha Gai, Coconut Chicken Soup
All praise Pim, creator of A Menu For Hope: a foodblogging fundraiser for tsunami victims. It’s such a great idea. I’m so proud to be a part of it. Because I am the Amateur Gourmet and not, say, the Hardcore Gourmet I needed some help with a recipe. Pim was incredibly generous. She provided me…
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Lisa is still a vegetarian.
Despite your efforts, everyone, Lisa is still a vegetarian. I was impressed by the quantity and quality of responses (money talks, doesn’t it?). Most of all, I was impressed by Jen’s argument—I found it very moving. It made me want to eat meat…good thing I already do! And now for Lisa’s response. We’ll attempt this…
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The DeVeggie Lisa Campaign: Day One
My friend Lisa has been a vegetarian for 15 years. 15 years! That’s a mighty long time to live a life of meatless depravation. I’ve tried every tactic in the book to talk her back into eating meat: she won’t budge. So now it’s your turn. Lisa has agreed to let you, my reading public,…
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This is a great list.
This is a great list of places to eat for under $10 in New York. I plan to use it frequently. Thanks Gothamist Food!
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Amanda Hesser’s Chocolate Dump-It Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting
So it’s 10 o’clock and you missed the 9:45 “Hide and Seek” at the Chelsea Clearview Cinema (which you wanted to see not because it looked good, but because it looked fun (Lisa saw it today and said it wasn’t bad and then I made her tell me the ending which I don’t normally do…
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Mean Lady at Pongsri
I just tried to draw a picture of the mean lady at Pongsri on Microsoft Word but then I couldn’t figure out how to save it as an image and gave up, so suffice it to say she was old and mean and had long gray hair and glasses and a dowdy husband. She was…
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Dig That Crazy Chickpea
In the East Village is Chickpea, a falafel joint that I’d been to once before and went to the other day with my classmates Molly and Patty. It was perfect. By perfect, I mean: it really hit the spot. See, Patty said she was “really sick of diner food.” That’s because my classmates and I…
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Lolita is Hiding
Do you spy her? She spies you! (But honestly, isn’t that cute how she hides there?)
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On Food and Writing (Part 1 in a 62 Part Series)
When Arthur Miller wrote “Death of a Salesman” in 1948, he built a cabin “to sit in the middle of it, and shut the door and let things happen.” He built a desk out of an old door and “started in the morning, went through the day, then had dinner, and then went back there…
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The Return of the Breast Cupcake
My average number of hits per day is 2281.13 (according to Typepad). Then today I noticed what some might call a huge surge: 34,440. To quote Joey Lawrence: “Whoah.” Why the sudden influx? The answer is simple: It’s been one year since I made my infamous Janet Jackson breast cupcake, and now they’re being promoted…
