People are asking me how I like New York so far. The answer is easy: I love it. I’m still giddy every morning when I wake up and peer out the window and feel the world of possibility before me. People tell me this will fade. But I think the likelihood of that happening has…

Let’s just say I stumbled across a site that linked to me with the quote: “Really good food blog, terrible photography.” Let’s just say that that’s true. Actually, I know it is. I know nothing about photography. How can I improve? I’m using a PowerShot S200. Do I need a new camera? Your advice is…

Step up, step up ladies and gentlemen. Prepare to behold the most beguiling foodstuffs known to man. Mothers, cover your children’s eyes–the uncorrupted should not be exposed to such brutality at such a tender age. If you have a heart condition, please be warned. For what you are about to see are freakish anomolies, the…

First of all, the title of this post is incredibly clever. Carb-bomb, get it? Like car-bomb? I could have spelled it CarbOmb but I thought that might be confusing. Might that have been confusing?Anyway, tonight I was finishing the finishing touches on my bookshelf and I decided to scurry out for pizza. “Two slices,” I…

CHELSEA, New York—IT was another ordinary evening at the apartment of L. Gilbert when a knock came at her door. “Who is it?” she asked, tentatively. “Pie man,” answered the voice at the other end.That voice belonged to none other than the Amateur Gourmet who made the rounds tonight with his nectarine pie with candied…

Not food related, but wasn’t the view out my window tonight delicious? I heart New York.

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Two firsts happened tonight: my first cooking project in my new New York apartment (sans garbage disposal) and my first pie. Well, ok I won’t lie: a long time ago I made a pumpkin pie, but I was heavily drugged and living in a nudist colony so it doesn’t count. And besides, this is the…

Today I went for the first time to the Chelsea Whole Foods. It completely blew me away. It was gigantic and everything was so plentiful. Rows upon rows of fruits and veggies and a salad bar way more diverse than anything I’ve seen in the other Whole Foods I’ve visited. I’ll be there a lot.Upon…