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NYC Eats has taken the NYT Quick Guide List for NYC restaurants and added links to the reviews and videos. It’s organized by stars; so you can get tours of NYC’s top dining spots. My favorites were Alain Ducasse and Daniel. You can also tour two places my parents ate at on their anniversary trip,…

Service matters. You can have the best food in the world, but if it’s presented in a dry, humorless style (ahem, Charlie Trotter’s) your meal loses lustre.Good service is a complicated matter. A good server is a chameleon: if one table wants professional courtesy and another table wants to yuk it up, you have to…

Ladies and Gentlemen,I present to you my greatest culinary achievement. Two weeks in the making, this bread is the pinnacle of my young gourmet life. Here it is in its final form:To be honest, its beauty is still a bit staggering. Isn’t it gorgeous?Here’s how it looks on the inside:How amazing that flour, water and…

The oven is preheating to 500 degrees. The baking stone is in place. The bread is doing it’s final rise. The band is playing “We Will Rock You.” Lauren is purchasing soup and salad from Whole Foods. [What’s funny is as I wrote that, she called my cell to say: “Creole Seafood Gumbo?” I gave…

I have restrained myself thus far from revealing a family secret. But now the time has come, and here it is: my parents are celebrity hounds. Their affinity for a restaurant is based on the likelihood that they will see a celebrity there. Nevermind good food, give them:Sarah Jessica ParkerOr, Billy Joel (with my brother)Or,…

You tell me what chip you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.Sour Cream and Onion? You ate paste as a child. You wear lots of flannel.BBQ? You drive an SUV and love the WWF.Salt and Vinegar?Well here we hit a wall. To me there was no one more exotic, no one more outside the…

I had good excuses. My most recent one was this:I was in the locker room, all ready to work out, ready to change into my workout clothes when I suddenly blanked on my locker combination. Figuring it would come back to me if I locked the lock, I locked the lock before locking it on…

“Bitter was my cupBut no more will I be the mournerFor I’ve certainly turned the cornerOh things are looking upSince [bread] looked up at me!”– From “Things Are Looking Up” by George and Ira Gershwin“But she lost control I wouln’t take the bait.I said chill baby baby chill baby baby wait.”– From “Things That Make…

I finally got to watch Tony Massarone’s sauce movie with Baby Owen! He converted it to Quicktime for me! And for you! I love this movie!Download here!I’m even adding it to “Funny Food Films.” It’s THAT good!(One gripe: for future sauce-makers, use FRESH Thyme. FRESH!)

I don’t want to talk about it.No, really.I’m emotionally drained.Here’s what happened.I woke up, I said: “Adam, don’t be silly. You’ve spent two weeks making a starter and it’s ready to go and you’re not going to go because your equipment hasn’t arrived? Hogwash. Just go buy wheat germ, borrow Josh and Katy’s bakers peel…