Writing about food since 2004.
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Penne Carbonara & My Last Will and Testament
Lauren can have my cat because Lauren’s a dog person and Lolita (who she lived with for two years) will remind her that cats are people too. Lisa can have my “Freaks & Geeks” DVD set because she hasn’t seen the end yet; Alex can have my VHS tape of the Martin Short special that…
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Pound Cake and the 12 Hour Fast
After much fanfare, today I finally went to the doctor to have my cholesterol checked. An inept nurse weighed me first and told me I weighed 140 lbs which was shocking because I don’t weigh 140 lbs. Then I realized she had the marker in between 100 and 150 and the small marker on really…
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Eating at New York Burger Co. in Chelsea is like going to Rome and eating at Pizza Hut
If there were no Shake Shack, I might have different feelings about New York Burger Co. Shake Shack is on 24th and Broadway in Madison Square Park. New York Burger Co., a chain, recently opened up near me on 21st and 6th. So you see one avenue behind this facade and three avenues up is…
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Food on the Boob Tube
I’d like to share with you several food-related moments from several days of TV watching: (1) The VH1 show “Celebrity Fit Club” is strangely enjoyable. Yes, it’s got all the markings of a crappy reality show: the panel of judges, the challenges, the weigh-ins. But at the end of the day, it takes a certain…
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Farmer’s Market Bounty
Some pretty pictures of the food I made this weekend after trips to the Farmer’s Market. This will be a shortly worded post (gasp! Adam write a shortly worded post?) because I really took these pictures for another project, let’s just not tell anyone I shared them here, k? Red and Yellow Tomatoes with Basil…
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Failure: A Short Film
I could tell you the story involved here, but I think the film speaks for itself. It’s very short and depressing. You’ll love it! Watch “Failure”
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A Cendrillon Story, in which I fall in love with a chicken (PLUS: Sex Toys!)
Patty, my beloved classmate and friend, was very specific in our e-mail exchange regarding the lunch we were to have yesterday. “Someplace exciting and not too expensive,” she wrote. Exciting and not too expensive? Where could we go? Then an image popped into my head: I’d been in SoHo the other day working on a…
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You Can Beat These Beets, Despite My Beautiful Presentation
I went to Whole Foods yesterday with a goal in mind: Heirloom tomatoes. I knew they sold them at the farmer’s market but it was late and I knew Whole Foods (which is way closer) carried them too. So I went there with the Barefoot Contessa’s heirloom tomato salad recipe in mind (tomatoes, fennel, an…
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What’s Pinocchio’s motivation in that pizza commercial?
Maybe it’s the drama school student in me, but I’m having trouble with the DiGorno pizza commercial that comes on all the time now. For those that haven’t seen it, Gipetto’s in his workshop with Pinocchio and he says something like, “Pinocchio if you tell one more lie you’ll never become a real boy.” Then…
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The Ins and Outs of Indoor Grilling (Featuring: Lamb Skewers with Apricots)
Chris Schlessinger and John Willoughby have a great book on grilling (surely one of the best) called “License to Grill.” (You can see it under my favorite cookbooks on the lower left hand of the site.) In the opening chapter, they write: “Grilling hasn’t changed all that much since the day some really smart cave-guy…
