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The Water of Life (whiskeybae)
With St. Patrick's Day looming up ahead of us it's time to think - not about corned beef and cabbage and beer, which combined has always struck me as a gastric disaster waiting to happen - but rather...
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The meal-less life
Filed under: Vegetarian, Lists, IngredientsLet's face it, all you food-loving, regular meal-eating types reading this site, you are the lucky ones. Most of you are blessed with a stove, maybe some...
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Don't laugh at Lunchables
Filed under: Cooking With Kids, Pop FoodLast week I went to a reading by author Rick Moody (The Ice Storm, etc.) at Pratt Institute, where this esteemed and controversial author read a food shopping...
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A diatribe on soy chicken patties
It seems like there's finally an end to the dreariness for us introverted extremists who keep frozen veggie chix patties in our freezers all the live long day. This is good because those things were...
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The eyes of anchovies
Filed under: IngredientsMy friend the lovely Yukari Rymar took me shopping at the Japanese supermaker last week, and in addition to the okonomayaki which you'll learn all about in my next post, I...
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Secret of the South: Sweet Tea
Filed under: Drink RecipesI was talking to tea-dom's own Emily Thomas about how I loved the weird iced tea she'd made, and to explain the difference between it and mere Snapple. Emily did her...
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Japanese for "As You Like It, Fried"
Everyone likes sushi. Non-foodies of all races happily dig into spicy tuna, cooked eel cutlets on rice, and ubiquitous American variations like the California roll. Quick lunch during work? Pop over...
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Chicken Fried Chicken?
Filed under: IngredientsWhat Fried How? "I could really go for some chicken fried chicken right now." "Huh?" "You know! Chicken fried chicken." I recently had this exchange exact with Hannah Pandolph,...
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Arepa!
Filed under: Did you know?When the sun gets hot in NYC, I board the F train headed south. the ride is arduous and time-consuming, passing through all the Brooklyn avenues of the alphabet. I exit the...
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Shucked Love
Filed under: Ingredients, Methods Summer heat (sans air conditioning) provides a great excuse to lie around the apartment and ponder. Yukari Rymar feels the sweat bead on her forehead and thinks deep...
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Hot Dog: Symbol of Patriotism
Filed under: Ingredients, MethodsJuly 4th. Surf and Stillwell Avenues. The crowd, thousands strong,bristles in the scorching heat, and the announcer hams it up. "This, the hot dog, the symbol of...
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Spruce My Grits Up
Filed under: IngredientsRecently, I was struck with a rare craving for a bowl of grits, boiled on the stove the way they do in diners below the Mason-Dixon line, with some butter and salt and pepper....
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The Sins of Red Velvet Cake
Filed under: BakeriesWhen my dear friend Yukari brought my red velvet cake the other afternoon, I thought I must have died and gone to some sort of sugar-baked heaven. I asked her where she discovered...
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Chowder Wars
Filed under: Television/FilmUp and coming chef Ben Sargent had just been given his very own half hour Food Network TV show--all about him and chowder, his specialty. With the sun barely up one morning...
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The Ice Cream Insider
Filed under: Spirit of Summer, Did you know?, IngredientsIt's 98 degrees in Brooklyn. The Weather Channel website says it "feels like" 107, but I say it "feels like" hell. If I could, I'd curl around...
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A little salt for dessert
Filed under: IngredientsNo matter who you are, where you're from, or what your taste, a salt shaker lives on your table, your stovetop, or your counter. Perhaps all three. Salt is cheap and readily...
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The Uncooling of Iced Coffee
Filed under: Trends, Drink Recipes, Coffee Shops, How ToNow that McDonald's is displaying proud banners throughout NYC that they have "iced coffee!" you can be sure that the once unusual and eccentric...
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Increasing your sense of taste through darkness
Filed under: Farming, Trends, Fast FoodIn the US, part of our collective weight problem may be that we are on the consumerist treadmill and can't slow down. If something's really good we make an...
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Not Eating Out in NYC: A blogger's tale
Filed under: On the Blogs, Real KitchensWhether of not you live in New York City you will find much to learn, share and enjoy from a recently begun food blog called Not Eating Out in New York , by...
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Messin' with the bull, gettin' the horns
Filed under: Raves & Reviews, Drink RecipesMan, I can't believe I let a whole decade of ambivalence separate me from what is now proving to be both my savior and my downfall, the nitrous fuel for...
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