Apparently we also made some Italian newspaper/website with pictures of girls in lingerie. Go down to the fourth paragraph, and put your mouse over “cucina e dintori”–that’s me. The site is called: L’Espresso. Can anyone translate?

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Life requires motivators. To get out of bed in the morning, we need incentive. “Ah yes,” we tell ourselves, “Neil Diamond tribute on Good Morning America. Must rise!”Consequently, great tasks require great motivators. “Climb Mount Everest? How can I?” said Sir Edmond Hillary to himself. And then he realized: “Oh yes! When I reach the…

Site reader and part-time Amateur Gourmet publicisit Vidiot has been hawking me for a while to go to Kool Korners on 14th Street for their Cuban Sandwich. “Go to Kool Korners on 14th street!” he will write. “Eat their cuban sandwich!”Today, my stomach and brain battled for control of the steering wheel as I figured…

This letter is to inform you that your Amateur Gourmet is in the process of completing his final final. This is a take home final in Jewish Law and requires great concentration and tsurris. What’s tsurris? That’s the fourth question on the test and I won’t get caught cheating. Suffice it to say, the test…

My favorite weekly columnist, hands down, is The Village Voice’s Michael Musto who, I sincerely believe, is deserving of a Pulitzer Prize for what he does with words. Just because he’s a gossip columnist doesn’t mean he’s not a genius! It brings to mind John Updike’s quote on Nabokov: “He writes prose the only way…

If there were a bar graph of things I cook, it might look like Manute Bull in Munchkintown. The Manute Bull, of course, would be Pumpkin Bread. I always make Pumpkin Bread. It’s my go-to recipe. Here’s why…To make pumpkin bread all you need is a can of pumpkin and that’s it. I mean, that’s…

There is Whole Foods in my backyard and then there is Whole Foods on Ponce.Whole Foods in my backyard is Lance Bass. Whole Foods on Ponce is Justin Timberlake.Cry me a river.Sometimes I go to Whole Foods on Ponce and eat dinner. They have a Blue Plate Special. The Blue Plate Special is very hit…

So, as I am wont to do, I posted my Per Se review on eGullet the night I wrote it. I originally linked it on here, and then it was merged into the general Per Se review thread. So here’s the link to that:The Link To That.If you click on page 4, you’ll see two…

Direct from Germany, watch an expert raw food chef prepare Foie Gras with Truffles–completely unedited! [Warning: contains gratuitous spraying of butter.]Download Terry The Raw Food Chef!