Writing about food since 2004.
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A Modern Meal at The Modern
Danny of A Year In Food contacted me recently and asked if we could go on a joint food-blogging expedition. I said “sure” and we agreed to sample the modern food in the bar room of The Modern. We met out front, and while I waited I snapped this photo which I’m really proud of.…
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I Did It! I Finally Did It! (Caramel Corn Success)
Remember my favorite kind of failure? It’s caramel corn! I’ve attempted caramel corn 8 times and each time I failed miserably. Constantly my readers offered me recipes from their grandmothers and constantly I ignored them. Well—two days ago I finally looked myself in the mirror and said, “SELF, pull yourself together and make caramel corn!…
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Ordering Outside The Box: Five-Spice Beef and Cucumber Salad from Grand Sezhuan Int’l
I think it’s funny how people who tell other people to “think outside the box” are often people who live their lives very much inside a box—like motivational speakers or corporate peer group leaders or, I dunno, Bob Saget-types who you encounter in your day to day goings-on. If I were a motivational speaker, though,…
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Street Fair Corn
Saturday, 6th Avenue was blocked off from 23rd street down to 14th street and lots of booths and stands were erected to create what was most likely a street fair. I’m not sure if this street fair was in honor of anything in particular or if a bunch of people got together and said, “Hey,…
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Sheparded to Shopsin’s, Mmmed at Magnolia, and Ignored and Imprisoned at The Spotted Pig
This post is a sensational post in three ways: (1) I will write about a secretive New York foodie sanctum, (2) I will praise a cupcake I formerly dismissed, and (3) I will remove from the shelf of my highest esteem a place that I fell in love with on my birthday. Let’s start with…
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Coffee Cake, Meet Your Maker
My brother stayed with me a few weeks ago and was shocked to learn that I didn’t own a coffee maker. “I am shocked to the core!” he said or didn’t say depending on whether or not you think I’m Frasier and my brother is Niles Crane. I remedied this a few days ago when…
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This Juice Makes Me Want To Jamba!
Parched on Broadway isn’t a new musical comedy starring Treat Williams, it was my state of being yesterday afternoon after marching around from theater to theater trying to get student tickets for various shows and failing miserably everwhere. (I succeeded tonight, however, with tickets to “Shockheaded Peter” which was awesome and which I will review…
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Oooh Flickr…
So once again I hit my photo limit on my .mac account and I was going to go delete some pics from the archives, then the little techie in my head was like: “Dude, you’re getting a Dell!” And I was like: “What?” Then he was like: “Oops, sorry, I mean: dude, use Flickr!” Many…
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The Return of “On The Side”
The observent among you will notice that on the left side of the page now, above “Funny Food Films,” is a link that was on the right side of the page for a brief flicker of time called “On The Side.” Well it’s back now…back with a vengance, and a new banner (which I made…
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Register the Register
Last week, I went with Lisa to lunch at Daniele’s Piadina which I had reviewed the week before. Lisa had never been there and now that Lisa works in my neighborhood (Lisa just took a job with Air America, located only eight blocks down!) we can eat lunch together more easily than we could in…
