Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • The Book Is In!

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    The Book Is In!

    Let’s let out a collective gasp: I made my deadline and my book, food gods be thanked, is in. And I’m so excited about it: I love this book. Seriously. It’s packed with everything I could think of to say, to do, to share—recipes, anecdotes, adventures, family history, food celebrities. You name it: it’s in…

  • Movin’ On Up

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    It finally happened. After four weeks of exhausting Craigslist searching, shopping, and disappointment we found it. Don’t ask us how. We’d practically given up. There had been a nice apartment in a dream location–W. 4th and W. 12th–but it was a railroad apartment and to go to the bathroom or the kitchen I’d have to…

  • Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Voce

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    Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Voce

    If you want to know what kind of restaurant I do approve of, the kind of restaurant that embodies all I love about eating out, look no further than A Voce. A Voce opened this year to great acclaim. It was one of the “hits” in the NYT restaurant round-up of “hits” and “misses” 2006.…

  • The Real Mauro?

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    People are asking if the real Mauro Maccioni (son of Sirio) is leaving comments on my Le Cirque post. Friends around me right now say, without question, that it is “definitely him.” (Their reason is: “Why would someone pretend to be the son of Sirio? If they were going to pretend they’d pretend to be…

  • Only A Jerk Would Eat At Le Cirque

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    Only A Jerk Would Eat At Le Cirque

    Dear Readers, I am writing you, on behalf of the human race, to inform you that a famous restaurant, a restaurant whose name still carries great cache, is a danger to humanity. Never have I been more outraged by a restaurant than I was on Friday night when my parents, who came to town, took…

  • To Cut An Artichoke

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    To Cut An Artichoke

    For months now I have watched Mario Batali cut artichokes on “Molto Mario,” demanding the participation of this three guests and charging that “it’s really easy and really worthwhile.” What’s infuriating (but admirable) is that he takes the time, each time, to explain the process to his audience. The religious viewer is left irritated at…

  • Labor Day Weekend on Cape Cod

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    Labor Day Weekend on Cape Cod

    I wasn’t supposed to go to Cape Cod. Well, I was. But then I wasn’t. See, when Craig told me I was invited to go to Cape Cod, to stay at the beach house of his friend Rob and 13 others–most of them film school students–I was thrilled to be included. A Cape Cod invitation…

  • Shopsin’s Burrito French Toast

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    Shopsin’s Burrito French Toast

    – First, James Felder (of Snapshot Artifact) doctored the picture I took with my cell phone so it looks better. Here it is: [NOTE: James fixed the photo again to be less green.] – I wrote this in the comments, but just in case you didn’t read it I want to tell you how my…

  • MFK Fisher’s “The Gastronomical Me”

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    On my night table sat two new books, purchased–somewhat irresponsibly–in hardcover: “Heat” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” My rule about hardcover is this: only buy something in hardcover if you’re going to read it right away. Well I read the first few chapters of “Heat,” thoroughly enjoyed them but felt that because it was based on…

  • Give A Howl For The Little Owl

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    Give A Howl For The Little Owl

    It made no sense to wind up at The Little Owl after attending the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center, but somehow we did. Diana’s youngest brother Brian was in town and we thought it would be fun to get rocked by Amadeus at Avery Fisher Hall. Our plan was to see the concert and…