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Calvin Trillin

  • Dinner with Two Atlanta Food Critics at Peter Chang’s

    Dinner with Two Atlanta Food Critics at Peter Chang’s

    In 2004, Atlanta Journal-Constitution food critic John Kessler wrote an article about me and my blog called “Welcome to Adam’s.” (You can read it here.) At the time, food blogging was very, very new and Kessler was baffled and amused by my antics: “Why does this recent Emory law school grad record every meal he…

  • A Walk to Chinatown (Lunch at Sheng Wang)

    A Walk to Chinatown (Lunch at Sheng Wang)

    I recently read an interview with my favorite food writer, Calvin Trillin, in which he said that when guests come to town, he walks them from Greenwich Village (where he lives) to Chinatown. Since I live in Greenwich Village, and since Saturday was beautiful and Craig was busy editing, I decided to follow Trillin’s lead…

  • Blue Ribbon’s Spiced Matzoh

    Blue Ribbon’s Spiced Matzoh

    As a Jew who grew up pretty Jewy (a Bar Mitzvah, Passover seders, an original last name of Rothenberg (changed by my grandparents)), I never got very excited about matzoh. Sure, come April, the inevitable boxes would show up at the store and my mom would by some and we’d spread it with butter (a…