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  • Oranges and Lemons

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    Andrea and Michelle, first and second place winners of Gourmet Survivor, have started their own website: Link: Oranges and Lemons. Check it out!

  • Let The Santa-ing Begin!

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    Ok, according to Andrea all the e-mails have gone out: you should all know who you are the Secret Cookbook Santa for. (

  • Caramel Corn Redux

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    Read this first. It’s the backstory. You must know the backstory to proceed further. Are we caught-up? Good. As you now know, I’m a caramel corn flunky. After that last post, I decided to never try it again. Until last night. Last night I decided to try it again. I decided to incorporate all of…

  • My Life: An Update

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    Blogging is a tricky business. Too much self-revelation–“I fear bugs!” “I smoke crack!” “I punch babies!”–gets tiresome. Not enough, and you begin to alienate your audience. In my last educational experience (law school), I shared much of my everyday experience with (to use a Southern catchphrase) y’all. “Today I took a test,” “Today I didn’t…

  • Getting in Touch with my ROOT Vegetables; A Disappointing Stew

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    Tom Valenti’s “One-Pot Meals” seemed the perfect companion to my new Le Crueset. Here was the ultimate one-pot and how exciting to cook his “one-pot” recipes in it. After the latke episode last night, Lisa and I were hungry something substantive. So we made Valenti’s root vegetable stew with cumin, coriander and millet. Except I…

  • I Like You A Latke

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    Many well-meaning non-Jews mistakenly believe that Chanukah (pronounced with an agressive phlegmy “CH”) is a significant and important Jewish holiday. It is not. It’s the President’s Day of Judaism. It’s the timing that shakes things up. Because it falls around Christmas, I’ve had non-Jews (particularly Christians) ask me, “What are you doing for Chanukah?” in…

  • Last Chance for Secret Cookbook Santa

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    Hey folks, This is your last day to sign up for the Secret Cookbook Santa (see upper right corner). I’ll be closing the sign-ups at midnight. Also, on an important note, as Andrhia has said in the comments, please make sure you’ve e-mailed your mailing address to cookbooksanta@gmail.com. Without your mailing address we can’t send…

  • Never Post at 3:45 am

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    Please forgive the now-deleted self-indulgent post from last night. That was one of those posts that you post and then wake up, scratch your head and ask, “Did I really post that?” I feel especially bad because Josh at The Food Section wrote me and reminded me that I only e-mailed him once a long…

  • Thai Me Up and Feed Me Pongsri

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    I loved Pongsri tonight, our new Chelsea Thai place. I learned of it at Gothamist Food. I love learning of new food places reading the food blogs. I felt so in the know when the crew I was with (I hang with a crew because I’m phat) said, “Where’s a good place to eat around…

  • Sticky Business: Peanut Butter & Co.

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    Here is a quagmire. When does a cute concept become a rip-off? Take Peanut Butter & Co, for example:This cutesy SoHo spot sells peanut butter sandwiches in many variations. Peanut butter and jelly, for example. Or the Elvis, which I bought today (peanut butter, honey and banana on white bread):When I told someone tonight (whose…