Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Choose Your Own APPLE Adventure
(1) You go to the farmer’s market and bring back a bag of apples. If you want to eat these apples out of the bag go to (2). If you decide to make an apple pie go to (3). (2) Oh no! You’re choking! No one’s there. You’re dead. (3) You grab your Martha Stewart…
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Chutzpah, Truffles & Alain Ducasse
It occurs to me at the end of this post that I didn’t, in fact, tell you what a white truffle tastes like. How to describe it? It’s really the smell that gets you–the smell is pungent and earthy and unlike anything else you’ve ever smelled. See, wasn’t that helpful? I also want to mention…
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Nigel Food
Here’s some of the food I cooked from Nigel Slater’s “The Kitchen Diaries.” This food was cooked for research purposes only and was immediately disposed of because I am a professional writer and professional writers don’t mix business and pleasure. For our first slide, you will see the $7 pork loin (why was it so…
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My Interview With Nigel Slater
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you my first ever professional food writing piece—a Salon.com interview with Nigel Slater. He was a pleasure to talk to, hope you enjoy reading it.
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70 Steps To Foie Gras Torchon
1. Receive a free lobe of foie gras from Mirepoix USA. 2. Post about it on your website. 3. Consider your options. (Option 1: Go as Foie Gras Head to that Halloween party; Option 2: Sear it and serve it; Option 3: Make a torchon from The French Laundry Cookbook.) 4. Decide on Option Two.…
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The Best Cookies Of Your Life
Diana and I are in love. No, not with each other, but with these chocolate chip cookies, our first apartment baking project that won raves from everyone who tried them. “These are seriously the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made,” said Diana. “These cookies are so good,” said Craig. “Meow,” said Lolita. Of course,…
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The First Supper (Or: How The Chicken Wasn’t Crispy)
There was a fight. It was our first meal in the new apartment; the first time, since getting gas, we were going to use our oven and our stove. I planned it perfectly: a comforting Southern meal, based largely on “The Gift of Southern Cooking” by Scott Peacock and the late Edna Lewis, wherein I…
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Dornenburg & Page, Part Two: In Which I Learn About Wine and Eat Terrific Food at Bar Carrera
After my embarrassment at having stood Andrew and Karen up on Sunday (and if you click here you can see they actually wrote a play about it! Funny!) I was sure to be early on Monday for our rescheduled rendezvous. The place, this time, was Bar Carrera in the East Village: I pressed Karen to…
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How I Dissed Dornenburg & Page, How We Made Up, And Why You Should Buy Their Book (Part One)
Hello! I am your host on this, the 7th day of Dornenburg & Page’s virtual book tour. They are promoting their awesome new book “What To Drink With What You Eat” which you can buy by clicking here: When I found out I was playing virtual host to Dornenburg & Page (who are extremely well…
I enjoyed how this Copenhagen guide balances the famous culinary stops with the small details that make a trip memorable.…
I’ve been making this recipe as written for years and it’s my favorite! Sometimes I add chocolate chips for even…
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Excellent post! I found it both informative and easy to read. The explanations were clear, and the insights were extremely…
This Copenhagen roundup works because it reads like a real trip rather than a generic restaurant list. The details about…