Writing about food since 2004.
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Misc. Fun
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Truth
Received an e-mail this morning from someone purporting to be a guest at Meg’s greatly exaggerated foie gras dinner. I think it’s important that I share this e-mail with my reading public because I value truth more than winning torchon tournaments. I wish I could say the same of Meg. Here’s the e-mail: “I was…
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Oh please!
So Meg’s foie gras post is up. She says her cuisine reigns supreme: yeah right! Oh so you put a pretty lettuce leaf on your plate and suddenly yours is better? And now she’s bragging that there weren’t any veins, but judging from her reluctance to show her de-veining pictures who knows if we can…
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Nigel Food
Here’s some of the food I cooked from Nigel Slater’s “The Kitchen Diaries.” This food was cooked for research purposes only and was immediately disposed of because I am a professional writer and professional writers don’t mix business and pleasure. For our first slide, you will see the $7 pork loin (why was it so…
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Nibbles
Hello! Welcome back to Nibbles, a semi-frequent posting ritual in which I cram together a bunch of minor posts into one big one so you, the reader, are entertained and I, the writer, feel like I’ve entertained you and informed you about all the things I’ve experienced recently related to food. So here we go:…
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Me on FoodTV
Guess what? I’m going to be a talking head on a Food Network pilot they’re shooting tomorrow. I can’t tell you anything about it or they’ll chop off my fingers, so suffice it to say if it goes to air I’ll give you a big heads up. Now for the hard part: whatever will I…
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How I Dissed Dornenburg & Page, How We Made Up, And Why You Should Buy Their Book (Part One)
Hello! I am your host on this, the 7th day of Dornenburg & Page’s virtual book tour. They are promoting their awesome new book “What To Drink With What You Eat” which you can buy by clicking here: When I found out I was playing virtual host to Dornenburg & Page (who are extremely well…
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Deconstructed PB&J
You ever get hungry around 4 o’clock and you find that there’s nothing to eat and you know that you’re not going to dinner until much later? Do what I do and channel the spirit of a post-modern chef in a very pre-modern way. Deconstruct a PB&J: lose the bread, take a spoonful of peanut…
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Thrillin’ for Trillin
Calvin Trillin is my favorite food writer. Every year he leads a walking tour of Chinatown as part of The New Yorker Festival and every year I try to get tickets and fail. I sit there on the Ticketmaster website and keep loading up the page until the tickets are made available at 12 PM…
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Five Things To Eat Before You Die
Apparently this meme is making the rounds and in a crunch for content, here’s my contribution: The Amateur Gourmet’s Five Things To Eat Before You Die 1. A good Cuban sandwich. I like the one at Chelsea Havana, but if you’ve never had a Cuban Sandwich before you should find the best one in your…
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Nibbles
– First a purge then we’ll binge. I just watched “Celebrity Duets” and seeing and hearing Xena The Warrior Princess sing a duet with Michael Bolton for judges Marie Osmond and Little Richard makes me want to purge. (Though I did enjoy it when Hal Sparks, who sang a duet with Gladys Knight, rebuffed Marie…
