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See, even my tastebuds are liberal: Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Pumpkin Spice Cookies appeal to me more than Laura Bush’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk cookies in The 2004 Family Circle Cookie Cook Off.

This website has served me well regarding the sway I hold over my parents in determining where it is we are going to eat. Pre-website, our conversations went something like this:Mom: Where should we go to dinner?Me: Let’s go to an elegant four-star restaurant!Dad: Let’s go eat steak.Mom: Steak it is.Me: Fools! Unsophisticated oafs! I…

Nick, Michelle, Andrea,This is the challenge I’ve been waiting for, the secret challenge I’ve kept stashed in my pocket for a special moment. That moment has come.I want each of you to prepare something that can be shipped through the mail. (A baked good would seem the likeliest option). And then, quite simply enough, I’d…

Scene: Da Silvano’s Restaurant, Greenwich VillageAction: The waiter sets down the plate of mozzarella, tomatoes and basil that we ordered.Mom: “Excuse me, but can we get some balsamic vinegar with that please?”Waiter: “No, madam. This mozzarella is too fresh—it would be a crime to hide that freshness with vinegar.”Stunned silence.Me: “Mom, let’s just eat it…

It is with extreme sadness that I report that our beloved Harry has been voted off the Gourmet kitchen island. The votes went something like this:Andrea: “It’s Harry. I love him to pieces, but he’s the strongest competition…”Michelle: “With only two people to pick from, I, sadly, will cast my vote for Harry this round.”Nick:…

One of my classmates was here a few weeks ago and he looked into my empty fridge and said, “If you’re such a gourmet, why isn’t there any food in your refrigerator?”His point is well taken. Now that I live alone, it’s like I have no idea what goes into a fridge. When I moved…

Well done Nick–you curried up 17 immunity votes in the last round and therefore secured yourself immunity status for this crucial vote-off. With four people voting and Nick immune, who’s gonna take the fall?Will it be HARRY, the Beast from the Middle East?Or MICHELLE, the BA (bad ass) from WA (Washington)?Or ANDREA, The Highlander Long…

Nick. Harry. Michelle. Andrea. Separate and alone, foodie icons of the internet age. Together, fierce combatants in the final weeks of what will surely become an international phenomenon–Gourmet Survivor 2004.This week’s challenge was to write a restaurant review. Simple enough. Let’s see what our fierce fighting foodies came up with. Vote for your favorite to…

There are two ways to go about cooking:1) You find a recipe. You go out and buy the ingredients. You cook them.2) You go out and buy ingredients. You find a recipe. You cook it.I have almost always been a #1 person, but tonight I journeyed into the land of #2. (Shut up, I know…