Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • The Thursday Night Dinner Song: “Chick-En!”

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    With apologies to Outkast and special thanks to Lauren who plays The Chicken and The Sorority Girl.Download file

  • Thorax Cake

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    A link, via NYC Eats: Pumpkinfest 2003. [Warning: image is very graphic and contains orange cake, apple spice cake, ginger cake, chocolate cake and a jelly roll for the small intestine.]

  • The End of the Amateur Gourmet

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    I have done a great deal of soul-searching tonight. First I sat on the floor meditating. Then I sat in my car drinking Scotch Whiskey out of a brown paper bag. When a hobo knocked on my window and asked for his brown paper bag back, I knew my life had taken an ugly turn.The…

  • Candied Walnuts

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    Nancy Silverton is my new food guru. First it was Sarah Moulton. Then the Barefoot Contessa. For a while it was Mario Batali. But now Nancy Silverton’s picked up the torch.First some grievances. Her writing is pretty humorless and her recipes are wildly specific, almost to the point of inadvertent comedy. And some recipes–mostly the…

  • Eatzi’s

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    Buckhead is, for many, the jewel in Atlanta’s crown. For others, it is the thorn in Atlanta’s side. For me, it is a place to go for a salad.For non-Atlantans, Buckhead is the trendy, yuppy high-end shopping district with clubs, bars, fancy restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory, The ESPN Zone, the Lenox Mall, the Phipps Mall,…

  • Temptation Island: Pathway to Fitness

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    This is my gym:This is what I pass on the way to my gym:and[It’s a PhillyConnection.]Additionally, there’s a Starbucks where you can get gooey, creamy, fatty frappuchinos and the like; and Moe’s Burritos where yes, you can possibly stay healthy, but good luck avoiding the fried Quesadillas and tortilla chips.Is this marketing genius or sheer…

  • Country Ham at the Silver Skillet

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    There are certain things I haven’t eaten in Atlanta yet that I must eat before I leave for the Big Apple. Among them are fried chicken at this famous downtown place (I forget the name), real BBQ somewhere OTP (loyal site readers will know what that means), and–of course–country ham at the Silver Skillet.Today I…

  • Food Fluff?

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    I’m making a concerted effort not to be negative on this site (hence the removal of a gripe against a former employer), but it would be criminal not to point out the maddening fluff of today’s NYT Dining & Wine section story: What He Ate: A Food Diary From New York. This is an article…

  • A Message from Richard Clark

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    Hello,This is Richard Clark, counter-terrorism czar, and catalyst for what is now a full-blown scandal regarding President Bush, 9/11 and intelligence.But that is not why I write to you today.I write to you on a matter much more grave, much more serious. I write to you because you are being deceived, and someone has to…

  • Vegetarians and Mollusks

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    Why don’t vegetarians eat mollusks? I thought of this question at dinner with Lisa several weeks ago. Lisa, who is a vegetarian, couldn’t think of a good answer. I mean, there isn’t much of a difference between a mollusk (clam, oyster, scallop) and a plant is there? Neither have brains, therefore they do not experience…