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  • Three Smoke Alarm Chicken, Sausage, and Broccoli Rabe

    Three Smoke Alarm Chicken, Sausage, and Broccoli Rabe

    As far as arrivals to one of my dinner parties go, last night was maybe the most dramatic of all time. I was making a chicken and sausage dish from Nancy Silverton’s under-appreciated cookbook Mozza at Home (I seriously consider it one of the best cookbooks to come out in recent years) and I’d cranked…

  • We Got Married (The Wedding Post)

    We Got Married (The Wedding Post)

    I was never a wedding person. Growing up, I’d watch the wedding scene in The Sound of Music and fantasize about writing a great musical someday. The idea of walking down an aisle held very little appeal for me (even if there’d be nuns singing a slowed-down version of “How Do You Solve A Problem…

  • My Thanksgiving Plate 2014

    My Thanksgiving Plate 2014

    Maybe this is a weird thing to be proud of, but I didn’t write any lead-up to Thanksgiving post this year and it felt really nice. So much of the writing about Thanksgiving is unnecessary: seriously, anything you need to know about turkey or cranberry sauce or stuffing has already been written. The fact that…

  • Scenes From The Skeleton Twins Premiere

    Scenes From The Skeleton Twins Premiere

    Well, it happened, and you guys made it happen. The Skeleton Twins “won” the weekend according to IndieWire; it was the #1 film in 12 out of the 15 theaters where it played. Now it’s expanding to more cities–Seattle, Minneapolis, Dallas, Boston, San Diego, Palo Alto and San Jose next week–and will continue to grow…

  • Our Skeleton Twins Sundance Adventure

    Our Skeleton Twins Sundance Adventure

    When I first laid eyes on Craig, it was in the spring of 2006 at Joe on Waverly and he was with a guy slightly shorter than him working on a screenplay. I didn’t know they were working on a screenplay; mostly, I wondered if they were a couple or just friends. When Craig went…

  • Sweet Potato Latkes and Regular Latkes Too

    Sweet Potato Latkes and Regular Latkes Too

    A lot of people are making a big deal about the fact that Hanukkah fell this year on Thanksgiving. “It’s the first time in thousands of years that this has happened!” someone said to me and I said back, “But America hasn’t existed for thousands of years?” There was an uncomfortable silence. The point is…

  • Rosh Hashanah Dinner at Kutsher’s Tribeca

    Rosh Hashanah Dinner at Kutsher’s Tribeca

    As life was ending in the Catskills, my life was just beginning. I was only a kid when my parents drove my brother and me upstate to experience the splendor (or former splendor) of the great bastions of Jewish entertainment. We stayed in hotels like The Concord and Kutsher’s where the carpeting was well-worn and…

  • Waiting For The Dough To Rise (A Passover Meditation)

    Waiting For The Dough To Rise (A Passover Meditation)

    On Passover Saturday, I Tweeted that I was making Everything Bagel Bombs from the Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook and moments later I received this text from my mom: “Do you not know bagels are taboo on Passover or are you just stirring the pot? Most bagel stores in New York are closed.” I called my…

  • My Mom’s Five Tips For Scoring A Table At An Impossible-To-Get-Into Restaurant

    My Mom’s Five Tips For Scoring A Table At An Impossible-To-Get-Into Restaurant

    My mom may not cook, but she’s an absolute authority when it comes to eating out at restaurants. She and my dad eat out almost every night of the week and they do so with a real zest for excitement and experience; they love to patronize busy restaurants, especially ones that are hard to get…

  • It Gets Better (Cooking for My Boyfriend & Our Families)

    It Gets Better (Cooking for My Boyfriend & Our Families)

    When I told my friend Alex that I was cooking a dinner for my parents and Craig’s parents at the end of last week, Alex (who knew me in college) said to me: “Did you ever think, 10 years ago, that this would ever happen? That you’d cook a dinner one day for your parents…