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  • Excellent Pork Chop House

    Excellent Pork Chop House

    When going to lunch with a James Beard award winner, it’s best to let them choose the venue. Such was the case when I had lunch with Rachel Wharton last week. I first met Rachel years ago when she profiled me for The Daily News and we ate lunch at S’Agapo in Queens. I thought…

  • Made-Up Minestrone

    Made-Up Minestrone

    My proudest culinary achievements aren’t the ones where I followed a recipe really well or repeated a specific technique demonstrated by a chef, they’re the ones where on a freezing cold night, instead of ordering a pizza or Thai food (side-note: we still haven’t found good take-out in the West Village; anyone?) I whip up…

  • Rice + Pineapple = Dinner + Dessert

    Rice + Pineapple = Dinner + Dessert

    Innovation in the kitchen is not my forte: I like to follow recipes. But every now and then I am lazy and home on a weekend and unmotivated to shop. It’s then that I open my cabinets and my refrigerator and see if I have enough on hand to whip something up. And it just…

  • Kimchi Fried Rice

    Kimchi Fried Rice

    The road to dinner may be paved with good intentions (something healthy), bad intentions (something naughty), but most frequently it’s paved with whatever you have lying around. And in my case, a few days ago, that happened to be kimchi and rice. The rice I keep with the pasta and polenta as an always-on-hand base…