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Eating 101 Around the Web
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Halloween Candy: Best and Worst
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hoboken, Famed for Sinatra, Baseball (?) and, Soon, Food — Thanks to Cake Boss
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Lidia Bastianich, the Italian-American Julia Child?
Posted 7 months ago
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Tomatoes — First Ingredient, First Recipe — what an heirloom tomato is, and why people engage in a rotten tomato riot every year in Bunol, Spain.
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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First Recipe, Part II: The Hunt For Peperoncino
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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First Recipe, Finally Cooked. Or: Why Many People Don’t Cook
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
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On Wi-Fi Cafes
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
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What Does it Mean to Cook, and Do You Need a Stove? Julia Child, Michael Pollan and Me
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Drinking Wine With Bob Dylan, Meeting The Real Food Stars at The New York City Wine and Food Festival
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
At the second annual New York City Wine and Food Festival, former President Bill Clinton talked about the need for healthy eating; Jacques Torres presented a brunch entirely of food made with chocolate. There were culinary demonstrations by Martha Stewart and by the TV stars of the Food…
KEEP READING »The Meatball. A Meditation.
Posted 6 months ago
The meatball is hot.
The word “meatball” appeared in a front-page headline of the New York Times recently; it’s in the title of a Hollywood movie that opens this week, “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”; a first annual Meatball Madness competition will take place in October at the New…
KEEP READING »San Francisco, Food Town
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
In her quirky food tour of San Francisco, which some have started calling “the best food city in America”, my friend Irina Slutsky took me to Zuni Cafe, an elegant and expensive eatery near Haight Valley that “John Perry Barlow, the lyricist for the Grateful Dead, introduced me to”; split a…
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