Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Michael Musto Blasts Bombay Dreams with Indian Food

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    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…

  • A Go-To Recipe for A Go-Go Boy: Pumpkin Bread

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    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…

  • The Blue Plate Special Chainsaw Massacre XVIII

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    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…

  • Per Se Shockwaves

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    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…

  • Terry The Raw Food Chef

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    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!

  • Welcome Home S’Mores

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    I am at my most miserly when given a gift that I don’t like. I can’t help it. It’s a combination of an overly expressive face and an underdeveloped sense of gratitude. The upside is that when I do get a gift I like, you’ll know it. I will emote wild rays of gratitude. Otherwise,…

  • Per Se: A Young Diner at a Young Restaurant

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    In my brief stint as a fine diner (with Charlie Trotters, Seegers and now Per Se under my belt) I have reached the following conclusion about fine dining. It goes like this: fine dining is like death.Death is quiet. So is fine dining. Death is peaceful. So is fine dining. Death is infinite. So–it frequently…

  • Emperor Balthazar, Doth Thou Have No Clothes?

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    When Restaurant Magazine listed its Top 50 Restaurants in the World this year, Balthazar placed 40th. This came as a surprise because I had been to Balthazar once before and didn’t love it. Was I missing something?After watching a play reading this morning at Juilliard, I hopped into a Death Cab (this guy was literally…

  • Night on the Town!

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    So after Juilliard (you may want to read today’s posts backwards, that way they’ll be more chronological-like), I made my way down to Times Square to meet my friend Ricky for an evening of Assassins and burgers. Who should I encounter on my way?Two zany prostitutes hawking their wares!Just kidding. These are my friends Dana…

  • Interview at Juilliard

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    This is Lincoln Center.See the trees on the upper right? Follow the path around to the building with the revolving door, take the elevator four flights up, follow the hallway down and enter the second room on the right and watch me on the couch interviewing at Juilliard. How did I do? Who knows! The…