Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • The Chocolate Chronicles: Chapter Two, Chocolates Eight and Nine

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    Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.Last we spoke there were two chocolates eaten. Careful observation will reveal that there are seven chocolates missing. Seven minus two leaves five. Who ate these five? What slovenly creature would sink to such depths as to ingest five high quality chocolates, given as a gift to a boy…

  • Taqueria Del Sol & Star Provisions

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    If there is one area of conversation, one facet of communication that I would extract from all future interactions it would be politics. My friends might find this strange because I am often puffing heatedly about affirmative action, gay parenting and abortion (I often play the devil’s advocate, rousing great venomous passions over dinner) but…

  • Thursday Night Dinner Song: “Women Outside The Bakery”

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    What is happening? Has the world come to an end? How can the Amateur Gourmet possibly have a Thursday Night Dinner Song when it’s only Wednesday? HELP ME, I’M SO CONFUSED!Settle down, dear reader. The Amateur Gourmet understands your plight and is here to explain. As mentioned in a previous post, The Amateur Gourmet (who…

  • The Chocolate Chronicles: Chapter One, Chocolate Two

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    The Oedipus myth, according to Freud, is one that echoes in our psyche like a glass breaking on a marble floor in the Bank of America. We are victims of an early infatuation–“the greatest love affair of our lives,” according to many psychoanalysts–and though Sophocles’ intentions may have been simply to entertain the masses, the…

  • The Corner Bakery: Model Fast Food?

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    Today I rode the laurels of my celebrity away from school and on to the mall, where I could revel in my splendor—absorbing the awe-struck gazes of passers-by who whispered to one another: “Is that the guy from TV?” “He’s so much cuter in person!”I made my way up the escalator and turned left towards…

  • How CNN Killed My Bagel

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    I decided to delete all CNN airtime posts since they are now irrelevant. In the process, I deleted my post “A Cultural Anomoly: The Einstein Brothers’ Nacho Cheese Bagel.” I think it is gone forever and this upsets me because (a) I took time to write it, (b) I even did research for it, and…

  • Turning Japanese!

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    So we made Excite news! Well, Excite News Japan.Can anyone translate?[PS. We’re up to 80,000 hits! If I were running for president, I’d have won a caucus by now).

  • Ugly Fruit

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    “Ugly Fruit it’s gonna move you / it’s just a song that gets right to ya!”So goes the commercial. But why is it advertised as gum?In any case, I continued my quest for all fruits bizarre and ill-sounding today at Whole Foods when I picked up an Ugly Fruit. At least I think it’s an…

  • The Thursday Night Dinner Song: “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Cupcake” (Pizza Dinner)

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    A strange, stream-of-consciousness Thursday night dinner song.Enjoy!Download file

  • A Brief Account of My Celebrity

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    Dear Amateur Gourmet Reader,First of all, let’s be clear. Fame hasn’t changed me. I am still the same Amateur Gourmet that you know and love, despite all the ornaments of my newfound success. Yes, maybe now a bathroom attendant pumps my soap when I wash my hands, but how else can I keep the strange…