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| | | Some people are haunted by ghosts, others are haunted by a sense of meaninglessness in a vast, expanding universe; but me? I'm haunted by food. Restaurant dishes, dishes I make I home: it doesn't matter. I crave them, I want them. Lately, I've been haunted by a dish I ate two weeks ago with m... Read More | | | | | | One week from today, this blog will turn five years old. Five years old! That's half a decade. Was it really five years ago that I wrote my first post? That I typed the words "amateur" and "gourmet" haphazardly into the title box of my blogging software? Was it really five ye... Read More | | | | | | So, in buying alcohol for our New Year's party, I either overdid it or I didn't overdo it in the right way. Meaning: we couldn't have had enough Champagne or Prosecco (bottles disappeared in less time than it took to open new ones), but--for some reason--the two giant bottles of vodka I bought (... Read More | | | | | | My favorite political blogger, Ezra Klein, started a food blog with his friends called The Internet Food Association, which I've been reading pretty steadily since it started, a few months ago. Today, Ben Miller has a post up called "A New Way To Grocery Shop" (click here) about a new devi... Read More | | | | | | Quick, rank the following from least important to most important, on the subject of "what makes a good New Year's party": a. food; b. music; c. decorations/lighting. Many of us food lovers would like to believe that music and decorations rank less than food when it comes to a happy ... Read More | | | | | | You're probably sick of all these 2008 wrap-ups (someone over at Serious Eats certainly is!) so I'll try to keep mine short and sweet. 2008 was a wild year for me. In my job as host of The FN Dish I met many of my food world heroes: among them, Alice Waters, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain and... Read More | | | | | | I take it most of you are familiar now with "The Wrestler," the sensational new movie from Darren Aronofsky and starring the irascible Mickey Rourke? What many of you might not know is that many of the characters who show up frequently on this blog had a hand in making the movie. F... Read More | | | | | | When it comes to gift-giving, it's good to have a thing. Those without a thing are hard to buy gifts for: you choose between scarves and candles and ponder the merits of fuchsia vs. chartreuse or hyacinth vs. gardenia. But when someone has a thing, you just get them something that fits their thi... Read More | | | | | | What's worse than traveling during the holidays? The answer: traveling from one snow storm to ANOTHER snow storm during the holidays. That's what I attempted to do yesterday in what may have been the worst travel day of my life (though I'm sure you've experienced worse.) Let's not talk about... Read More | | | | | | Hillary Clinton says "it takes a village," but I think it takes a recipe. What I mean is sometimes you think you don't like a certain dish because you've had so many bad versions of that dish, but then suddenly you encounter a recipe for that dish that takes you by surprise and you ... Read More | | | |
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