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Attention Gourmet Survivor Contestants:Here is your first challenge.You must find a historical recipe and then cook said recipe. You may take pictures of the process (but you don’t have to) and if you do you must upload them, once again, to Flickr. You must write about your experience and tell us all about the historical…

Seriously.If you see “papaya” in the name of a store, that means they sell hot dogs there. This may be obvious to locals, but to foreigners it can be extremely confusing.”Finally, Boris, a store that sells papya! Little Popette can get the nutrients she needs to live!”Sorry, Popette. If the lack of real papaya doesn’t…

When one creates a scavenger hunt featuring 50 random unrelated food objects, activities and/or postures, one does not expect that many people will actually engage in said scavenger hunt. One expects that a small few–hopefully nine–will engage and that one may then say: “Foresooth! Everyone who participated is a winner!”Instead, 14 kindly souls participated in…

Remember those father-son swapping movies that were so popular in the 80s? “Like Father, Like Son” with Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore? That other one with Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage? And, of course, The Parent Trap. (Which wasn’t in the 80s, but was in the 60s and 00s, so it evens out). My relationship…

Mom always asks, “Do you want anything? From the store?” when I’m en route to the airport. Some families have pantries that are well-stocked and plentiful; refrigerators bursting with tupperware containers of homemade sauces and soups and salads. Some people have Jacques Pepin for a father. I, on the other hand, have my mom for…

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go. Not taking my computer this trip (too much of a hassle) so no blogging til Sunday… In the meantime, keep apprised of our Survivor contestants who, already, have posted a hilarious array of pics in the comments section for the first round. Keep up the good…

I just want to make sure everyone understands (regarding the post below) that you only get to post pictures ONCE. Once you post the link to your photo album, that’s it. Cool?And also, I forgot to mention that we have two corporate sponsors who work in book publishing–they’ll be donating cookbooks to the winner! More…

Orientation at Tisch is one week from today, and I’m incredibly excited. Before that is the Republican National Convention and as you can see, New York is already getting ready:My mom had been pleading for me to come home before school starts and so, in the spirit of avoiding the convention and visiting my family,…

Lest you think Survivor shall trump my regular food posts, I say this to you. Ha! Never!Now then, yesterday I trekked down to the Chelsea Market which is at the foot of Chelsea and on the doorstep of the Meatpacking District. Therefore, everyone in the Chelsea Market was incredibly attractive. See the Meatpacking District is…

Wow! 50 sign-ups, that’s crazy. Thank you all so much for your interest. This should prove to be a very entertaining project.Now then, unfortunately, because 50 is way too many to have a proper Survivor contest I’m going to have to eliminate 41 of you. I know, I know: Adam, how can you be so…