Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Fried Brain a la PMBR

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    In case I seem a little blotchy this week that’s because my brain is going through a perverse obstacle course known as the PMBR. For those late to my career/life narrative: I just graduated law school, and now I’m studying for the New York bar. After that I’m off to NYU for the Tisch School…

  • How Much Inside

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    Site reader Tim H. sent me the link to this fun site: How Much Is Inside?. My favorite is the Bacon Bits bit. Enjoy!

  • The Ingredient Game: Round Two

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    The first round of The Ingredient Game was a raging success. Well, in any case, people seemed to like it.Tonight’s Food Item is slightly more tricky. Here are two clues to help:1. This is not something you eat directly;2. It contains 0 Fat, 0 Cholesterol, 0 Sodium, 0 Protein and 2 g of Carbohydrates.And now…

  • Check Out Our Button!

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    Thanks to newbie site-reader Lynn B., we have a SAVE THE CARBS button! Check it out in the upper right hand corner! And put it on your site! Woohoo!

  • The Carbohydrate Manifesto

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    How did we come to this?Yesterday, I was pumping gas at the QT and in the little plastic picture frame above the gas meter was an ad: “We Now Offer Low Carb Lunches!” At the Atlanta Bread Company, where I went for lunch today, a large banner hung overhead: “Check out our low carb options!”…

  • Satanic Saran Wrap

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    I have a sneaky suspicion that my life is a TV show, a la “The Truman Show,” except instead of Ed Harris as Kristoph lovingly overseeing my every move, there is Bob Saget–a la “America’s Funniest Home Videos”–overdubbing my actions with obnoxious voices and irritating sound effects. Anyway, that’s how I felt tonight trying to…

  • A Cobbler Recipe for Cobbler People: Cherry and Apricot Cobbler

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    In this world there are pie people, tart people, and cobbler people.Pie people, bless their souls, say things like “bless their souls.” They wear aprons and buy toilet paper at Sam’s club.Tart people are a little edgier, but not much. Their hair is cropped and they wear wire-rimmed glasses. They don’t favor Yanni, but they…

  • Do not affect a breezy manner.

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    I am a big nerd who reads Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for pleasure. Not just pleasure: edification. According to the blurbs on the back it is a “nonpareil” (The New Yorker) “the best book of its kind we have” (St. Paul Dispatch) and “as timeless as a book can be in our age…

  • The Best Chain Restaurant in America: Houston’s

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    We are going to do tonight’s posting in one big mega-post. Since I only have two things to talk about–geese and Houston’s–we’ll be ok. Oh, plus there’s popcorn. But first geese.Driving to Houston’s today, some old people were holding up traffic on La Vista Road. I leaned my head out the window like an angry…

  • A Four Month Anniversary Review on Drowsy Sudafed

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    It has just come to my attention that today (well, yesterday) is this site’s four month anniversary. My first post was January 14th, 2004 and since today (well, yesterday) is May 14th, 2004, that makes it four months of Amateur Gourmet greatness. To mark the occassion, I just popped two drowsy Sudafeds and I plan…