Writing about food since 2004.
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Misc. Fun
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Chocolate Covered Matzos
Passover is over, but I’d like to belatedly submit my review of the Dark Chocolate Egg Matzos I bought at Citarella a few weeks ago. Here’s my review: I didn’t really like it. Sometimes the combination of dry, crackly, salty bread-like substance (pretzels, for example) with creamy, bitter, unctuous chocolate is a winner, but not…
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Mean Jelly Beans
You may have already seen this, but there’s a new product called Bean Boozled with two sets of identically colored-jelly beans: one that’s a traditional jelly bean and one that’s truly nasty. See the chart: Honestly, if I had to choose between buttered popcorn and rotten egg I’m not sure which I’d pick. I HATE…
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Meet The Plates
Our old IKEA plates were getting cracked and crackly and I recalled a meal I ate at a restaurant recently (though I don’t remember which specific restaurant–The Little Owl?) where all the entrees were served on quirky, idiosyncratic plates. “Hey!” I said to myself. “I want some quirky, idiosyncratic plates. When it’s time to get…
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The Worst Typo I’ve Ever Made in the History of My Blog
From the post below:”the dark chocolate sorbet was like a big gooey bowel of cold chocolate soup.”Have a great weekend!
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Whitefish Salad
Bagels are my madeline; one bite and a lifetime’s worth of poppy seeds and bad breath spill forth. I’ve written much about bagels on the web–this tribute to Bagelworks in Boca Raton, a bagel love letter for Serious Eats–but I’ve written very little about a bagel topping that’s been a constant in my life and…
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More on Bourdain
To answer some of your questions: – We were at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival (see here) and, as stated in that post, we were on our last day of shooting, at the Mario Batali Jamie Oliver dinner at Danny Devito’s restaurant. My director and I, exhausted from all the interviews we’d done,…
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Richard Blais
Anyone who watched the season premiere of “Top Chef” yesterday will have taken notice of Richard who charged out of the gate with his deep dish peach pizza and finished the episode in the top four. What you may not know is that one of the most memorable meals I’ve ever had in my life…
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3 Posts I Almost Wrote This Morning Before Leaving For Work
1. A post about how even though I pretend to love food and eating, I think what I really love is sitting. 2. A post about the back pages of food magazines–which ones are the best, which ones are the worst. I’m not sure which is the best, but my least favorite is Saveur. It’s…
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Fried Chicken & Collard Greens
The plan was for my usual roast chicken (which, by the way, you should only salt until it has a light coating: those who said it was too salty took my recipe too literally!) but then, as I was standing there in the grocery store, I spotted collard greens. “My, my,” I said to myself…
