Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Class Attendance, Take Two

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    Back in March I took class attendance to get an idea of who was reading the site. Now that we’ve had a media blitz (that’s a fun thing to say: media blitz), I’d love for conspicuously quiet regular site readers to come out of the woodwork. New ones too. So, if you don’t mind, can…

  • For The Love of Basil: Pasta, Pesto, and Peas

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    Before we even begin, I must tell you that I can’t hear the phrase “Pasta, Pesto, Peas” without thinking of a certain 60s pop song by Cher. I think you know the one. And in case you don’t, I revamped the lyrics and recorded a new-garlickier version for you. Let’s hear that now, so that…

  • How I Became a Wingnuts Delivery Person for 45 Seconds

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    Have you ever been pumping gas when a confused looking Asian woman with a cell phone walks over to you, hands you the phone, and points to a piece of paper that says 1415 Piedmont? No? Then you clearly haven’t lived!Today just such a thing happened to me. I was pumping gas. A confused looking…

  • Wednesday Is “Bring Your Gourmet To Work Day”

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    My high school friend Amy and I got back in touch recently (via this website, really) and among our many e-mail exchanges was a request by her:“How about an entry on cheap, easy, & portable [lunch] alternatives for all us corporate-readers stuck at our desks for lunch every day?”Ok, Amy, you’re on!I declare this Wednesday…

  • How Everything Tastes

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    The following exchange occurred over dinner:Me: I’ve been eating pickles and jam all afternoon.Lauren: That’s so gross.Well not TOGETHER Lauren. It’s just that when I got home I said: “Ooooh pickles!” And I opened the garden pickles I made the other day and really enjoyed that zingy punch of vinegar, garlic, and Thyme via carrot,…

  • Dough à la Mode

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  • I Don’t Think I’m Ready For This Jelly: Nectarine-Apricot-Ginger Jam

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    Preservation is a cool word. Officially it means: “the process of keeping safe, unchanged or in existence.” I particularly like how cultures, in order to preserve themselves, had to preserve their food in the process. Like Jews with smoked fish or Southerners and their pickled pigs feet. It’s a cool example of great food evolving…

  • Adam Potter and the Pickles of Azkaban (Plus a Tiny Spell of Family History)

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    There comes a point in every young man’s life where he must make a decision. For Harry Potter these decisions are frequently epic: how might I pursue the man who killed my parents? How can I learn the secrets of my past? Potter’s decisions, however, pale next to the heart-wretching decision I had to make…

  • The Perils of Fame and Undisolved Sugar at Dunkin’ Donuts

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    After the excitement of reading the Kessler piece last night, I prepared myself for a day of constant recognition and autograph signing.”Hey!” I imagined imaginary clusters of people yelling at me, “Aren’t you that giant nose from the AJC?! Will you make cupcakes out of MY breasts?”Instead, I arrived at my bar review class this…

  • The Swan Pastry Contest Winner

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    Our Swan Pastry Contest winner–Anthony of Spiceblog–may have been our only entrant, but one can’t help but laugh and admire his work:If Tchaikovsky and Wolfgang Puck had a love child this would be it!So congratulations Anthony on a job well done. You’ve proven that no matter WHAT your body type, good legs will always win…

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