• Brunch at Flatbush Farm

    Brunch at Flatbush Farm

    Brunch, more than any other meal, celebrates abundance. We don’t want one pancake when we go to brunch, we want a stack of glistening, syrup-coated chocolate-stuffed pancakes. Yet one pancake–a solitary, singular pancake–is one of the peculiarities you’ll find on the brunch menu at Flatbush Farm, a lovely neighborhood gastropub in Park Slope.

  • Bring Me The Head of Roasted Cauliflower

    Bring Me The Head of Roasted Cauliflower

    Here’s a secret for successful cooking: follow your urge. Too often we punish ourselves with recipes that are supposed to be good for us or easy to do instead of trusting the greatest tool we have, the little voice in our head that tells us what we’re hungry for. If you have a craving for…

  • Feeling Grand on Grand Street at Pho Grand

    Feeling Grand on Grand Street at Pho Grand

    I finally did it. I’ve lived in Park Slope for 10 months now and every time I take the D train into the city I promise myself that one day, when it stops on Grand Street, I will get out and eat lunch. You’d thing that a food obsessed person like me would’ve done that…

  • Liver and Let Die (Chicken Livers with Leeks, Balsamic Vinegar, and Dried Apricots)

    Liver and Let Die (Chicken Livers with Leeks, Balsamic Vinegar, and Dried Apricots)

    It’s summer. It’s hot. Most people, hot in summer, do not crave liver. I didn’t mean to crave liver. In actuality, I haven’t eaten much liver in my life. I’ve eaten chopped liver–but that seems like a different thing: masked by egg and onions, eating chopped liver at a deli and eating a whole chicken…

  • James Felder Reviews Wakiya

    James Felder Reviews Wakiya

    James Felder has his finger on the pulse of Manhattan dining with this scoopy review of Wakiya. Thanks James for sending it our way! There’s been a lot of negative buzz around Wakiya. I can honestly say, the place ain’t bad. But I won’t be back. I went with my mother for a Sunday meal…

  • Get Away to Kennebunkport

    Get Away to Kennebunkport

    The perfect weekend getaway is one that makes you feel like you’ve been gone for months. That’s how I felt this Sunday night when I came back from a brief trip to Kennebunkport with my friends Patty, Diana and James. We’d only been there 36 hours–we left early Saturday morning (7 am) and returned late…

  • How To Make Broccoli and Cauliflower Bad For You (and utterly delicious)

    How To Make Broccoli and Cauliflower Bad For You (and utterly delicious)

    This is a recipe from The Zuni Cafe Cookbook, a cookbook I’ve long dismissed as too complex, too fussy, too–well–not me. Flipping through it now, the recipes are long-winded, they go on for pages, and the pictures are too few and far between. And yet this is a cookbook that has something to say–I can’t…

  • Let’s Make Our Cookies Bigger

    Let’s Make Our Cookies Bigger

    People of the world, aren’t you tired of tiny cookies? You know the kind I’m talking about. They’re the kind that you end up making when a recipe says, “Drop cookie batter by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.” That’s what the recipe says for Nestle’s Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies, which I made again tonight (here’s…

  • Why Annisa Should Have Three Stars

    Why Annisa Should Have Three Stars

    Earlier this year, Keith McNally–owner of Balthazar, Pastis and the newly opened Morandi–wrote an open letter to New York Times food critic Frank Bruni accusing him of sexism. McNally wrote: “Bruni has never given a female chef in Manhattan anything more than one star, ever….On the two momentous occasions that Bruni saw fit to hand…

  • How To Make Bland Pasta Better

    How To Make Bland Pasta Better

    The pasta you see above may call to you and cause you to eat your computer screen, but don’t be fooled. Before I put that pasta through Amateur Gourmet Pasta Rehab, it was a bland, boring mess. Two ingredients came from the farmer’s market: fresh corn and basil. The corn, as I should’ve guessed this…