21. Best Macaroni and Cheese: The all-American wonderfood seems to get more decadent from year to year. Lobster, truffles, prosciutto, crème fraiche…but my all-time favorite remains the relatively simple, smoked gouda-and-optional-bacon version dished out by Westville as an “appetizer”. Rich but not overpowering, creamy and delicately smoky from the cheese, it’s the perfect plate to share [...]
August 24th, 2010
Cheese, Please (Part III)
August 20th, 2010
Cheese, Please (Part II)
11. Best Place to Assemble Your Own Party Spread: When throwing a party, there’s no place like home. When assembling the pre-dinner spread, there’s no place like Murray’s. I asked Beth Ann Coulton, Wholesale Rep at the venerable cheese store, for her advice on how to put together the best party plate. “When making a cheese [...]
August 13th, 2010
Cheese, Please! (Part I)
The Western world has had a pretty tight relationship with cheese for the past, oh, ten thousand years or so. At this point, we’re virtually inseparable; Westerners and cheese are like Bonny and Clyde, peanut butter and banana, pencil skirts and sky high heels! My own relationship with cheese goes way back, and my love [...]
July 23rd, 2010
Snotty McSnobster (Revealed)
How do you score the best table at Restaurant Daniel? Should you grease your Maître D? What the hell is a Maître D? Snotty McSnobster has all the answers. Self described as the most powerful Maître D in the city (and it could well be true!), Snotty recently went on tape with Josh Ozersky to [...]
June 1st, 2010
Market Report: Butter Me Up
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 [...]
May 21st, 2010
Market Report: Iron Chef Challenge (Part II)
On the day of our Iron Chef challenge, Snotty McSnobster arrived at my fifth-floor walkup, toting an uncharacteristic burlap sack like a sort of twisted Santa Claus. First he pulled out a bottle of Plymouth, then a pack of limes. I queried the Snobster, “That’s it? We’re drinking pure alcohol? Are you trying to get [...]
May 11th, 2010
Market Report: My Romance with Radish
One day last week I woke up to the delicious spring sun warming me through the window of my fifth-floor walk up. Taleggio and I spent a few lackadaisical moments basking in the glorious heat, as if we were literally thawing ourselves out after a long winter. With nothing pressing on my agenda (a much [...]
April 20th, 2010
Valentine’s Day Grocery List
Click on the video screen above to watch the first webisode in a series documenting my ladies-only Valentine’s Day soiree. In this webisode, the cameras follow me to the Union Square Farmers’ Market and inside Union Square Wines where I shop for local, seasonal, real foods to lovingly prepare for my Tribe. Gosh darn, [...]
April 12th, 2010
Free Wifi Hotspots in NYC (Part I)
Now that the weather offers reason enough to smile and the sun sticks around past 5pm, an excuse for a day spent entirely inside is hard to come by. Though I dearly loved those winter weekdays spent curled up with Taleggio and a bowl of bacon-y stew, listening to the wind howl outside my 5th [...]
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 [...]
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