Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • WANTED: Crazy Potato Chip Girl

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    AGE: 25HEIGHT: 5 foot somethingROOMMATE: The Amateur GourmetWANTED FOR: Eating gigantic bags of potato chips before she goes to bed.ANYTHING ELSE: Yes. Crazy Potato Chip Girl is incredibly dangerous. Her breath reeks of potatoes and she has been known to belch without saying “Excuse me.” Crazy Potato Chip Girl will EAT YOUR POTATO CHIPS and…

  • Pluots

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    People.Purportedly, Pluots perpetuate proper Plum passion.Admittedly, Apricots are also accented assiduously.Verdict?Very vivacious;Lovely; likable;Delicate; dainty.Truth told?Pluot = Expensive plum.

  • Starter Anxiety: The Feeding Begins Tomorrow

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    Tonight, I thought I’d peruse the pages of the La Brea Bakery Bread book one last time before tomorrow’s feeding commences. It seems I have the nomenclature wrong: what I have right now is a culture; what I will have tomorrow is a starter. In any case, I’m feeling rather jittery; like the father-to-be-feels out…

  • Martha Stewart Living Episode #8232: Aryan Barbie Party

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    As someone who appreciates Martha Stewart Living for its dark humor and camp value, I will occassionally review the episodes I am able to catch after a long hard day at school. Today’s episode was severely disturbing: a Barbie birthday party for Martha’s colorist’s daughter.Perhaps my liberal education has made me overly sensitive to issues…

  • The Best Girl Scout Cookie

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    Some people are silly. They think the best Girl Scout cookies are Thin Mints.Wrong!The best Girl Scout cookies are Samoas.Look at the box:It’s purple. What’s purple? The color of royalty. And what color is the Thin Mint’s box? Green. The color of envy.Now look at the cookie:See how complicated?Thin Mints are like two mint crackers…

  • My First Lasagna (Plus, A Nightmare Table Spread)

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    &uotI was a difficult kid to invite over for dinner. Growing up in a cheeseless home (my father being a cheeseophobe), I would inevitably find myself at a friend’s dinner table, starving, only to find his mother waddling over with a big tray of lasagna.”Hope you’re hungry boys!” she would say, inevitably.I would then proceed…

  • Sunday in the Park with Food

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    Today was such a pretty day!I went to the park and saw two things that were food relevant.1) This guy in a gazebo? He caught a fish. You can’t see the guy or the fish, but he did it with a stick and fishing wire. Who knew there were fish in the Piedmont Park lake?2)…

  • Breast Plagarism?

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    Lisa’s Dad sent this my way. I don’t know whether to be flattered or enraged. Lauren points out that this isn’t a photoshopped image, it’s an actual product: notice the NASCAR motif on the box. This is supposed to be a tire!

  • Famous Site Readers!

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    Congratulations to site readers Clotilde Dusoulier (of Chocolate and Zucchini) and Matt Kantor (of Bourrez Votre Visage) for their mention in Gourmet Magazine this month! And for those without a subscription, here’s a link to an image of their magazine mention:Link to their magazine mention. Congrats!

  • Movie Food

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    Friday Night: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”Last night, I went with Josh and Katy to see “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” First, I ate Josh and Katy’s famous Friday night pizza.Katy makes really good, really interesting pizza dough. Her secret? Brown sugar. It gives it a little zip; and by zip, I mean…