Writing about food since 2004.
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Who’s Going To Win Top Chef?
This season of Top Chef has been my favorite so far. The chefs are more talented than they’ve ever been, the focus has been on the food not chef antics (well, except for everyone’s conflict with Robin) and somehow the Vegas setting, which might’ve undermined the shows credibly, has allowed for some of the world’s…
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Lunch with Lidia Bastianich (and my dad)
It’s my fault, really. My parents were in town and my mom asked me, early in the week, if I’d babysit my dad for lunch on Tuesday while she met some of her friends. I said, “Sure.” Then, the day before, I received a confirmation e-mail from Lidia Bastianich’s publicist reminding me of a lunch…
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The First Meal
The first meal that you cook in a new apartment is very, very important. We all remember what happened last time, don’t we? I attempted to inaugurate our Park Slope apartment three years ago with Edna Lewis’s fried chicken (fried in butter and lard) and didn’t get the fat hot enough. The result? Gooey, gloppy,…
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Dinner at Whole Foods
I met my grandparents for dinner last night at the Whole Foods in the Time Warner Center. My grandparents are here in the city for the next week, and choosing a place to eat can be a bit tricky. Once I took my grandmother to The City Bakery for lunch, and when she saw the…
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Vote for Sasie
My friend Sasie Sealy, a super talented filmmaker, is a semi-finalist in the Netflix “Find Your Voice” Film Competition. So please go here, watch her short film, “SarahN_12,” and if you like it, give it a good ranking so she advances to the next round. She deserves it!
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Bespoke Chocolates
Food people are my kind of people. That’s why so many of the people I’ve met since I started food blogging have become good friends: they’re generous, they’re insightful, they’re creative, they’re smart and they have good taste. So friendship was clearly in the stars when a longtime reader named Rachel Zoe Insler informed me…
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The Culinary Cardiologist
Rob Siegel is a cardiologist who joined a big group of us last week, before seeing “Star Trek,” for dinner at The Brooklyn Diner (not the best place for a meal, but a decent option near the Ziegfield Theater). There were so many of us, we were split into two groups, and, unfortunately, I wasn’t…
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David’s Sweet Life
Several years ago, when I went to Paris, I rode the Metro from my teensy hotel in the 80th arrondissement, to meet a food blogger I admired but had never met, Mr. David Lebovitz. As I came up the stairs (or was it an escalator?) I beheld a vision: there, standing before me, was a…
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Cowgirl Cure Auction
Gina DePalma, pastry chef at Babbo and recent James Beard Award winner, is currently fighting cancer and holding an online auction to raise money for ovarian cancer research. Some of the items are pretty stellar, including dinner for 4 at Babbo and, my personal favorite, a year of free coffee from my favorite coffee shop…
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Pim’s Tweetcipe
For those who thought my Kimchi Fried Rice post used too many words, check out Pim’s Tweetcipe version: “hot wok, oil sizzles, garlic+grnd pork to brown, toss kimchi, push aside, crack eggs, whip&in goes rice, TOSS+s&p+pinch sugr, grn onion DONE.” I hate to admit it, but hers actually sounds better.
