I may be a chef and a foodie, but one of my favorite meals has always been bread and butter. Though I was not a finicky child, on those nights that our family ate “grown up food” I would be allowed, assuming I’d at least tried my meal and finished enough of the vegetables, to [...]
June 1st, 2010
Market Report: Butter Me Up
April 1st, 2010
Bake Sale Sell Out
I’m a political junkie, but politicians make me crazy! This is the second time on this blog that I’ve been stirred to words in response to an article on cupcakes I’ve read in The New York Times. The first incidence of my incendiary defense of the cupcake came back in September 2007 when I read [...]
February 16th, 2010
Time for Lunch
It’s time for lunch. Or rather, it’s time to reform the school lunch program in this country. On Fat Tuesday, it’s apropos to direct you to my favorite celebrity chef at his recent TED Prize winning speech, wherein he announces that in the 18 minutes it will take for him to deliver said speech, 4 [...]
January 25th, 2010
Shame on Me (Part II)
Differences of taste are tricky ameliorate, let alone legislate. Take for example, The Breadcrumb Debacle.
Last week, with a renewed vigor for dishing out the best a food-forward life has to offer, Erin and I decided to cook dinner together in lieu of hitting up a neighborhood hotspot. I made vegetables and dessert; she [...]
January 22nd, 2010
Shame on Me (Part I)
I’m dating again. And I’m struck by how quickly I was able to repair my heart after how badly it was broken some months ago. I wouldn’t have thought I could feel so open, so ready for love and lust, quite so soon, but I guess that’s a tribute to time’s ability to heal hearts [...]
November 25th, 2009
Market Report: Gobble, Gobble
I have this friend, a certain Mr. Snotty McSnobster, which, if you can believe it, is not his real name, and with whom I disagree on just about everything… except maybe the reigning superiority of cheese as the world’s perfect food.
When he says “slow-food eating locavore” the words are dripping with derision; when I [...]
August 21st, 2009
Market Report: Millions of Peaches
On a summer afternoon right before I left for Buff, I sat in Riverside Park working my way through a couple of exquisite and wonderfully seasonal white peaches. I’d been out riding my bike – on a quest for something delicious to eat – when I stumbled across a farmers’ market overloaded with gorgeous produce, [...]
July 4th, 2009
I left my heart in…
…San Francisco. Again.
This time it wasn’t the cowboys that captivated me, but the cows. Driving back from Napa en route to the Frisco airport on the last leg of my annual California journey, I rear-ended my rental when I found myself completely awe-stuck and staring out the passenger window at black & white striped cows. [...]
May 29th, 2009
Go Green! A Conscientious Dining List, (Part II) by Erin
11. Best Catering Company Gone Restaurant: The Green Table
Located in the Chelsea Markets and associated with The Cleaver Co., this spot seats famously intimate meals with the likes of the Dali Lama and Martin Scorcese. Known for their eye-candy and taste bud-pleasing food that satisfies. They are one of the top three green caterers [...]
May 26th, 2009
Interns Are Going Organic
I think this is one of the most exciting articles I’ve read in The Times all year. Kim Severson reports that a record number of college students are applying for summer internships on small farms throughout the country. Taking Michael Pollan’s message to the streets, or to the “soil” as it were, these kids are [...]
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