Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • BREAKING NEWS!!!

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    CNN IS COMING OVER TOMORROW TO DO A STORY ON MY JANET JACKSON BREAST CUPCAKES! THIS IS NOT A JOKE! I REPEAT, CNN IS COMING OVER TOMORROW! THE STORY WILL AIR MONDAY NIGHT!

  • Wednesday Food Day: Feb. 4, 2004

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    In case you are as amateur as I and are not aware of Wednesday’s status as “Food Day” allow me to enlighten you: on Wednesday, almost all of the nation’s papers publish their Food & Dining sections yielding thousands of scrumptious articles to wade through in your down time. I will therefore attempt, each Wednesday,…

  • The Varisty (Atlanta)

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    Last semester I worked at Atlanta Legal Aid. My boss, an amicable sort, had many convictions, the most prevalent one being: “There is no onion ring better than the onion rings they make at The Varisty.”Now I’m a reasonable man. I believe that reasonable convictions maintained by reasonable people should be viewed reasonably. However, something…

  • Dreaming Big: A Janet Jackson Breast Cake

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    Tomorrow night I plan to create something topical, something ambitious, something that will offend every member of the FCC (Federal Culinary Commission): A Janet Jackson Breast Cake.How will I do this?Well, I started a thread over at eGullet on the matter: Janet Jackson Breast Cake Thread; but I am also seeking your input.How best to…

  • Check it out!

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    Woohoo! I feel like the pampered subject of E! Fashion Emergency, Extreme Makeover and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy all rolled into one. Ain’t this new site design fantastic? Thanks to Colleen who I discovered via another great site, NYC Eats.Anyway, here’s to a happy new site design! Things’ll only get better from here…

  • Charitable Chicken Soup for My Roommate’s Soul

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    Poor Lauren. She has a cold. When Lauren gets colds they last for two weeks, minimum. And since I have been basking in my good health all weekend (excluding explicit epilogues), last night I called her cell phone on her way back from the airport and said: “Would you like me to make you chicken…

  • Ask The Amateur Gourmet!

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    And now for the birth of a new feature–ASK THE AMATEUR GOURMET!–in which site readers from all over the world ask the Amateur Gourmet culinary questions that he is completely incapable of answering. Here we go!Dear Amateur Gourmet,Where does the word “sushi” come from? My husband says it’s Japanese, but I’m convinced it’s Italian. Can…

  • Cooking Light With Pancetta!

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    EPISODE ONE:SUNDAY MORNING CELEBRATION OF YOU DAY!https://youtu.be/lUG1Qa925Ig

  • Gourmet Dinner, Thumbs Up Breakfast, Horrific Epilogue

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    Last night the culinary muse descended upon me and whispered into my ear.”Challenge yourself, my boy!”I rose to the challenge and whipped out three cookbooks: Mario Batali’s “Simple Italian Food,” Alice Waters’ “Chez Panisse Cooking” and Sarah Moulton’s “Cooking With Sarah Moulton.”From the first, I made a bizarre salad of fennel, blood oranges, pomegranate seeds…

  • It’s A Knife!

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    THE AMATEUR GOURMET IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE BIRTH OF HIS NEW KITCHEN APPLIANCEKNIFEBORN IN GERMANY, KNIFE IS A MEMBER OF THE WUSTHOF CLAN: STAINLESS STEEL, TEN INCH BLADE. HE WAS TEMPORARILY HOUSED IN THE CUTLERY WING OF WILLIAMS-SONOMA IN THE LENOX MALL:WHILE DRIVING HIM HOME, THE AMATEUR GOURMET NOTICED THAT TOWER RECORDS IS OUT…