Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • How To Throw A Last Minute Passover Seder

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    My father jokes that our synagogue is “so reformed it closes on Jewish holidays.” That isn’t too far from the truth. And to be even more truthful, it’s been a long while since we’ve been in a synagogue. We’re Jews in spirit, we’re Jews in appearance (check out my nose!) but not always Jews in…

  • The Mystical Divinity of Unashamed Felinity [In Which The Amateur Gourmet Eats A Cat Treat]

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    Cats are mysterious, luxurious creatures. They know things that humans can barely understand. To (loosely) quote William S. Burroughs: “Dogs are sentinels; cats are spiritual companions.”If cats truly are superior, might they not have superior tastes in food?Tonight I probed this issue deeply, with Lolita as my guide.What does a superior creature like Lolita enjoy…

  • The Amateur Gourmet Challenge

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    I thought of this fun idea today while I was driving.Some dishes are very hard to make. For example: lobster souffle. That would be very hard to make. [Jeffrey Steingarten wrote about it Vogue a couple of months ago.]In any case, here’s the idea:CHALLENGE THE AMATEUR GOURMETIf you choose to challenge the Amateur Gourmet, you…

  • Gelato at Paolo’s

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    I don’t really get gelato. I know it’s sophisticated ice cream, but I still prefer ice cream. [Especially at Jake’s, where I’ll take you soon. It’s in my Atlanta Top Ten.]In any case, Lauren and I had pizza tonight–(JEWS: ACT NOW! LAST CHANCE FOR LEAVENED BREAD!)–and since I had my camera in my pocket and…

  • Aria Restaurant (Atlanta)

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    Bruised, battered and overworked, my stomach barely survives weekends with my parents. The sheer mass and variety of food is too much for my delicate internal organ to handle. Last night, in a quiet moment, my stomach stepped into a spotlight and began singing a sad aria.”ARIA,” said my parents, and scooped us up and…

  • Bacchanalia (Atlanta)

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    Bacchanalia is one of Atlanta’s top restaurants, if not The Top restaurant (second only to Seeger’s). Yet, everyone I know who has eaten dinner there–myself and my family included–comes back disappointed. Why?Well my memory from the family trek to Bacchanalia three years ago (and remember, this was before Adam became food conscious) is one of…

  • Fogo De Chao

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    And now a story from the Platinum Collection of Roberts Family stories.When we moved to Florida in 1991, we stayed for a brief spell with my great-grandmother, Helen, in Sunrise Lakes. For those who have never been there, Sunrise Lakes is a community divided into Phases and each Phase has a pool, a shuffleboard court…

  • John Kessler, My Parents and Emeril’s

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    Life is strange. You wake up expecting a professional photographer in your apartment and wind up at Emeril’s with the AJC’s food critic and your parents.Here’s how that happens.Originally, John Kessler was supposed to come over today with a photographer to finalize the profile he’s writing and to snap photos of me at my computer.…

  • A Thing To Look Forward To

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    My parents and brother are coming into town this weekend and we will be eating at (among other places) Fogo De Chao (a Brazilian place where they bring meat to your table) and Aria (a top-star Atlanta Italian restaurant). Pictures and stories to follow.

  • Matrilineal Noodle Pudding

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