Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Once Upon A Sausage: Lunch with Elise & The Serious Eats Team at Biricchino
Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes has been reading this blog from the very beginning. She championed me on her site, way back when, and the hits came pouring in. Ever since, I’ve considered her this blog’s favorite aunt. And yet she’s been an estranged aunt: until last week, I’d never met her. But then she…
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Hollywood Stargazing
My parents were in L.A. this Oscar weekend and they went, on Thursday night, to dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s Cut where they imagined they’d see a million celebrities. The last time they were there (last year, actually) Tom Cruise walked by as the waiter described different cuts of meat. Who would be there this night?…
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The Thank You Meals: Part Two, Duck Ragu for James (Plus A Wild Walnut Salad)
James, on the other hand, deserved a meal for taking my picture multiple times for my book’s “author photo.” You can see James’s terrific photography on his site, Snapshot Artifact. We went out a few times to get the perfect picture, but nothing was really working. Then James had the idea of taking pictures of…
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The Thank You Meals: Part One, Southern Food for Stella (Cheese Straws, Squash Casserole, Coconut Cream Pie)
One of the perks of being a person who cooks is that, as a person who cooks, you can get people to do things for you in exchange for cooking. So Stella, my dear friend, agreed to cat-sit for me while I was in Seattle if I agreed to cook her a Southern dinner when…
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Food In Threes
Because I now have a roommate (Diana) and because I also have a sig. oth. (Craig) it ends up that when I cook these day I’m cooking for three. So, as you can see, the other day when I made bread from scratch (that’s the next post!) I served it for three with arugula salad,…
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The First Supper (Or: How The Chicken Wasn’t Crispy)
There was a fight. It was our first meal in the new apartment; the first time, since getting gas, we were going to use our oven and our stove. I planned it perfectly: a comforting Southern meal, based largely on “The Gift of Southern Cooking” by Scott Peacock and the late Edna Lewis, wherein I…
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Movin’ On Up
It finally happened. After four weeks of exhausting Craigslist searching, shopping, and disappointment we found it. Don’t ask us how. We’d practically given up. There had been a nice apartment in a dream location–W. 4th and W. 12th–but it was a railroad apartment and to go to the bathroom or the kitchen I’d have to…
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In Kristen Veritas
My college friend Kristen of the food blog Give Me Some Food came to town recently with her mother and the two of them were kind enough to take me and our friend Ricky out to dine at a wine lover’s dream restaurant: Veritas. Here’s Kristen’s write-up of the meal, including an account of the…
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Meeting Pim!
I know you all want to hear about my lunch with Ruth Reichl, but Ruth Reichl Ruth Shmeichl—I met PIM this week! She’s here for business and on Tuesday we had lunch at Balthazar. We were supposed to have lunch at a fancy SoHo noodle joint but it was closed for lunch on Tuesdays. So…
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