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Ladies and gentleman, it is my great honor and privilege to present this week’s guest judge and jury. She’s been featured in Gourmet magazine, the LA Times and Hugh Heffner’s effort at a food magazine, Playsoy. (Just kidding about the last one). She even has a book deal in the works. She’s truly the summit…

I walk past the Body Shop every day on my way to school. I have a question for you, ladies. Why do you want to smell like fruit?That’s what the Body Shop smells like to me. Hot fruit. Noxious, acidic fruit that clouds the air near NYU worse than the fog of Mary Kate and…

[We will now tackle several issues I’ve been meaning to write about for a while.]Deference fascinates me when it comes to food (as well as movies, TV, theater, literature, and trasngendered escorts). We live in the age of the blurb. “Better than Tofu!” “Wicked wasabi!” “Don’t miss the Vietnamese-Mexican dipping sauce!”People succumb to these stamps…

Alas and alack, the time has come again to vote off another contestant on Gourmet Survivor. My apologies, no video this time out. Instead, though, we get to see who voted who off our kitchen island. Which is way more juicy…

As the title says, Harry gets immunity this round so he may not be voted off. Contestants, please e-mail me who you want to vote off by 11 pm tomorrow. In a little twist (to make things interesting) I am going to publish who you voted for in tomorrow night’s post. That way we can…

Ah, what a nice set of submissions from our seven remaining contestants. This week’s challenge was to showcase something specific to your locale; allowing for a virtual culinary trip around the world, no baggage necessary. Readers, you’re the judge this week: vote for who you think should get immunity in the comments below. And now,…

Tonight I reached a new milestone in my career as an Amateur Gourmet. In fact, I may have to change my site’s title to: The Slightly Better Than Amateur Gourmet. (Not as catchy, I’ll admit.)See, here’s the truth about many of the things I cook: the leftover ingredients sit in my fridge until they rot,…

One book that’s sat on my bookshelf for a while is The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen by Paula Wolfert.One reason for that is that by the time I decide to cook something, I don’t have time to make anything slow. Last night, however, even though it was 6 pm, I was willing to cook something slowish.…

Navigating New York is not an art that comes naturally to me. I’ve hopped express trains to Queens, Harlem and the Bronx when I was merely trying to get back to Chelsea. I’ve walked the streets of TriBeCa thinking I was in SoHo. I made love to Mayor Bloomberg in Grand Central when I thought…

Hello players, congrats on hanging in there. On to the third challenge.It occurred to me tonight: “Adam, your players live all around the world. There are people in Israel, in Canada, in Fairbanks Alaska” (Juno the Eskimo is a secret behind-the-scenes player) “why not take advantage of that?” And so we shall.Your challenge is this:…