Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Chicken Soup Redux

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    You know you’ve been blogging too much when you start to repeat yourself. Similarly, you start to repeat yourself when you’ve been blogging too much. Nothing illustrates this better than chicken soup.In February I posted Charitable Chicken Soup for my Roommate’s Soul which featured an Epicurious chicken soup recipe that I can’t seem to locate…

  • The Ingredient Game: Round One

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    Here is how we play the ingredient game. I type out the ingredients for a food product and you have to guess the product. I will also give you two clues. The winner receives the love and respect of the Amateur Gourmet Community.Two Clues:1. This is a prepackaged product;2. It is desserty in nature.Ingredients: Sugar,…

  • Starve a Cold

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    The secret’s out: I have a cold. Not only that, I gave it to Lauren. We are none too happy.For lunch we souped at Bagel Palace. We were given a choice between traditional chicken noodle soup and just plain noodle soup. We never really asked what the difference was, so we went with traditional and…

  • The Thursday Night Dinner Song: “What I Did For Bread”

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    It took up too much refrigerator space. I’m moving to New York. It looked so nasty.I mean, look the container was gigantic:Yet for those who followed my travails of bread production as documented in the Funny Food Film “Project Sourdough,” you will be heartbroken to know that tonight I did what was inevitable. I poured…

  • Gentrification and Creme Brulee Cheesecake in East Atlanta

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    You know how in “The Shawshank Redemption” the old man, Brooks, kills himself because he can’t adjust to life outside the pen? (Sorry for ruining it, those who haven’t seen it). Well I’m starting to feel his pain. Two days, now, since graduating law school and what have I done with my time? I’ve returned…

  • The eGullet Wars

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    Sorry for my bad posting today. I’ve been engaging in brutal Per Se discourse on

  • I Made Someone Eat An Eyeball

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    I hadn’t realized that people were posting to old questions on The Upper Left Corner. I just skimmed through them now and came across this post from S’kat under “Project Palate Expansion” (in which I urged readers to eat something new and write about it):I know I’m a little late for this one, but what…

  • All You Can Eat Salad and Pizza at The Patio

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    &tLet us explore the psychological phenomenon that is “all you can eat.”In many ways, this culinary catchphrase is a challenge. “Ok eater,” says the restaurant, “I dare you. Come here, and try to eat all you can eat. I bet you won’t finish more than two plates.”And for the most part the restaurant is correct.…

  • Blais Has Closed!

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    I’m really sad…. The spot where Lauren and I celebrated our joint 25th birthday with a 31-course dinner (here’s the link to my write-up) is closed. Official word comes from the AJC:WEDNESDAY PEACH BUZZDaring eatery Blais shuts its doorsBy RICHARD L. ELDREDGEBLAIS The restaurant that made a name for its humorous, unlikely and sometimes brilliant…

  • Post-Graduation Macaroons

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    The last time I graduated I took with me a line on my forehead: the sun burnt an impression from my graduation cap on to my skin that lasted three weeks. This time I vowed I would leave graduation the same way I came in, and for the most part I kept my word. That…