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  • The Top 10 Dishes That I Cooked in 2013

    The Top 10 Dishes That I Cooked in 2013

    My word, I cooked up a storm in 2013. Usually when I go through the process of choosing my best dishes of the year, the list pretty much writes itself. This year I struggled to put this in any kind of order; and when you see the dishes on my “Honorable Mentions” list you’re going…

  • The Best Brownies of Your Life

    The Best Brownies of Your Life

    Here they are, the brownies I’ve always wanted and never found. I didn’t know my brownie life was lacking; for years, I’d been melting chocolate in a double boiler along with some butter to make the Martha Stewart version. Those were always good. So were all the other brownie recipes I attempted with a similar…

  • The 10 Best Dishes That I Ate in 2012

    The 10 Best Dishes That I Ate in 2012

    I know you’re probably sick of these end-of-the-year listicles, but after a year that took me all over the country, I just had to do a list of the 10 best dishes that I ate this year. I ate so much good food, in fact, that 2012 may very well have been the best eating…

  • The 10 Best Things That I Cooked in 2012

    The 10 Best Things That I Cooked in 2012

    You’ve gotta admit, I cooked some really good things this year. So many, in fact, that narrowing this list down to ten took some work. But I’m confident that these ten dishes are the dishes that dazzled the most, the ones that made me pat myself on the back most vigorously, praising my myself in…

  • Absolute Bagels (And The Best Bagel Of My Life, So Far)

    Absolute Bagels (And The Best Bagel Of My Life, So Far)

    The journey to the best bagel of my life was a journey of precisely three miles. It started on the Upper East Side, near 2nd Avenue in the 70s, and ended close to Columbia University, on Broadway near 108th Street. I told myself that I could treat myself to a decked-out bagel if I walked…

  • The Best Curry of Your Life

    The Best Curry of Your Life

    Go ahead and imagine the most flavorful bite of food you can. What makes it so flavorful? Is it the amount of salt? The amount of heat? The amount of fat? The amount of acidity? All of these factors come into play in this recipe for lamb curry from April Bloomfield’s A Girl and Her…

  • 2011 Highlights

    2011 Highlights

    It’s not every year that you finish a cookbook, move to a new city and find a used DVD of Doug Henning’s “The Magic Show” at Amoeba Music. But that’s what 2011 delivered, along with trips to Portland, Oregon, California (where I ate with many food bloggers), Atlanta and–a personal favorite–New Orleans, Louisiana. (We fell…

  • The Best Doughnuts in L.A. (A Comic Odyssey)

    The Best Doughnuts in L.A. (A Comic Odyssey)

    If you liked this post, see my Comic Book post archive here.

  • The Best Sushi Of Our Lives at Sushi Zo

    The Best Sushi Of Our Lives at Sushi Zo

    Ok, ok, I know what you’re thinking. “Adam,” you’re saying, shaking your head while sipping a vanilla iced latte (why are you drinking that, anyway?), “you’re losing credibility. You just wrote a post below this about some blood-infused noodles and said that the Thai restaurant where you ate them offered the best Thai meal of…

  • The Best Dinner Rolls of Your Life

    The Best Dinner Rolls of Your Life

    Who invites friends over for dinner rolls? On Thursday night, I did that very thing. I texted our friends who live in our building and said, “Hot dinner rolls and honey if you want right now!” It was a strange text, one that I thought might be met with radio silence. But one friend, our…