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  • Baked Pasta with Kabocha Squash, Radicchio, Walnuts, and Taleggio

    Baked Pasta with Kabocha Squash, Radicchio, Walnuts, and Taleggio

    If my friends who are cooking Thanksgiving this year have one dilemma it’s the issue of beloved vegetarians. Do you relegate them to side dishes while everyone else eats turkey? Do you make the main event vegetarian so that everyone feels included? Is it even Thanksgiving if there isn’t a dead animal on the table?…

  • Pumpkin Pie That’ll Actually Make You Love Pumpkin Pie

    Pumpkin Pie That’ll Actually Make You Love Pumpkin Pie

    If there were a universal “meh” list, pumpkin pie would probably be at the very top. How many people are passionate about that odd combination of orange gunk, eggs, pumpkin pie spices (perhaps the most famous thing about it), in a pale, pallid crust? Not many! And yet, year after year, we make pumpkin pie…

  • Bucatini Carbonara

    Bucatini Carbonara

    There are lots of conversations in food media, by people much smarter than myself, about “authenticity” in cooking and what that even means. The trend seems to be that we’re shifting away from the word, which is a relief, since I’m about to share my go-to Carbonara recipe and who knows what a real Italian…

  • Six Hour Birthday Lasagna

    Six Hour Birthday Lasagna

    Lasagna is the perfect birthday food. It’s festive, it feeds a crowd, and depending on which recipe you choose, the work that goes into it can become a gift in and of itself. Such was the case with this lasagna that I made for Craig’s [age redacted] birthday this weekend. The recipe comes from Chris…

  • We Sold a Cookbook!

    We Sold a Cookbook!

    If you know anything about me you know that I love two things more than anything else: (1) cooking and (2) Broadway musicals. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to become friends with one of my favorite Broadway actors, Gideon Glick (we met up at The Russian Tea Room), and over the pandemic…

  • English Porridge

    English Porridge

    As someone who’s starred in “Oliver” twice–as Oliver in 5th grade and Fagan in 7th grade–I know a thing or two about porridge (aka: “gruel”). Rule one: don’t ask for “more” or you’ll be dragged by your ear out into the snow and sold to a mortician. Rule two: it’s best not served from a…

  • Whistle a happy tune at Prune

    Whistle a happy tune at Prune

    So I did Prune for brunch when I got back from Europe and Lisa and I loved it. Remember? I was soon set on the idea of eating there for dinner. My friends Molly and Colin, from my program, told me how much they loved it last time I saw them. And then yesterday in…

  • My 1000th Post: How To Start a Food Blog

    My 1000th Post: How To Start a Food Blog

    This is my 1000th post. Can you believe it? 1000 posts. That’s craziness. That means I’ve sat down exactly 1000 times with a new window here and a new idea, a new experience to convey to you all. That’s a lot of times. I hope you appreciate it! Since I’m a veteran now of 1000…

  • For $48, eat a three-course four-star lunch at the phenomenal Le Bernardin

    For $48, eat a three-course four-star lunch at the phenomenal Le Bernardin

    [This is part two in an eating adventure with mom that began with the post before this, Chanterelle…] $48 is a lot of money and it’s a lot of money to spend on food. Is it $115? No it’s not, it’s cheaper. $115 is a tasting menu at Chanterelle. Is it $5 for a extra…

  • A ‘Shroom of One’s Own: Dinner with Mom at Chanterelle

    A ‘Shroom of One’s Own: Dinner with Mom at Chanterelle

    Just when you thought you’d seen the last of my family in Rome–at least for a while–here they are again, back in New York, to celebrate my mom’s big 5-0 (never tell a woman’s age!) by which I mean she’s turning 30. Because dad had to work and Michael had some other goings-on through Thursday…