Writing about food since 2004.
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Status Report 1
As of 1700 hours, Wednesday: – Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie, check – Frozen Key Lime Pie, check – Corn bread for stuffing, check – Cranberry Sauce from scratch, check – Candied nuts and pretzels for snacking, check – Carrot Soup, check – Find out we’re having more guests for dessert, check – Make apple cobbler, in…
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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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Here In Brooklyn
My dad grew up in Brooklyn and spent his life, one might say, getting out. And now his oldest son (that’s me) has taken the narrative full circle, bringing our gene pool back to where my dad started, where his parents and their parents settled and started life in America (most of them came from…
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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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Clotilde’s Trip to El Bulli
Check out Clotilde’s site for a real treat: a write-up and photos from her trip to El Bulli. Before the jump, I was certain she was going to say: “I didn’t want to spoil the meal taking pictures of every course,” but then there the pictures were and it’s a real service to those of…
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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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Dirty Sugar Cookies and Vegetarian Dim Sum
When Ayun Halliday asked me to participate in her Dirty Sugar Cookies virtual book tour, I began to question how best to host someone virtually. Would I build a virtual platform and invite a virtual audience? Would there be a virtual punch bowl and virtual karaoke? No, this didn’t seem right. So I turned the…
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The Mother’s Day Meal We Cooked Last Week
We are now entering the phase of this website known as “the phase in which Adam juggles writing his blog and writing his book.” I have decided that when it comes down to choosing the best place to share new material–the blog or the book–the best choice is the book because the book is more…
