Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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June 2004

  • Impulsive Late Night Biscuit Ecstasy

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    Say what you will about me—call me bitter, call me mean, call me sometime, won’t you?—there’s one thing you can’t say: that I’m not impulsive.Take these biscuits for example.I had absolutely no reason to make them. I have bran muffins from the other night, remember? And I’m studying for the bar, remember? But I got…

  • Filth, Food and Cleanliness; Or, Lawyers and Poop

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    I’ve been thinking a lot about my poop post lately. Part of me does indeed regret it (“Don’t s**t where you eat or where you blog about eating”), but the other part of me–the mad scientist part of me–keeps rubbing its hands together and declaring: “We may be on to something here.”I pushed and pushed…

  • Gonna Have The Whole World on a Plate

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    We are swiftly approaching July which marks my final month in Atlanta. I have lived here for seven years and I think the world of it. You’ve got city, you’ve got country, you’ve got trees and parks and Ted Turner. When my mom and I first visited seven years ago, she peered out the plane…

  • I Cooked You Up An iMix

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    For those of you with iTunes you can now download the official Amateur Gourmet iMix. (Clicking should load up the mix in your iTunes player).For those of you without iTunes, allow me to share the tracklist. I have assembled 15 songs, all of which I love, some of which concern food. Here they are:1. Domingo…

  • Annals of Eating: Not So Regular Bran Muffins for the Irregular

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    Bran muffins serve one purpose and one purpose only. So does bran cereal, for that matter. People don’t eat bran because it tastes good, people eat it because it makes them poop.In case you haven’t been told, pooping is the natural consequence of eating. What goes in must come out, so they say. I am…

  • Entitlement and Food: Part Three of an 87 Part Series

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    Ah, you thought I was done didn’t you? You thought there’d be no more about Entitlement and Food? You thought wrong!The last few posts concerned economics, sociology and politics. This post concerns snobbery.Entitlement works in many ways. One such way is: “I am rich and you are poor and I deserve to eat better food…

  • A Man and his Durian

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    Check out Jeremy’s post over at Frost Street in which he tackles the oft-celebrated, oft-feared Durian. Here’s the picture he took pre-disembowelment, follow the link for the rest!

  • The Secret of the Silver Skillet Biscuit, Undiscovered

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    The biscuits at the Silver Skillet are the best in Atlanta. They are flaky and perfect and light as a feather. They are, in fact, among my favorite things to eat.While I was there today, then, I decided to ask for the recipe. I thought i would use my site’s cache to earn credibility. I…

  • The Thursday Night Dinner Song: “Early In The Morning (Nothing To Eat)”

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    I have always hated breakfast.As a child I thought nothing was worse than mushy pancakes, that French toast was the most abominable creation known to man, and that eggs were watery gooey clumps of yellow matter my mom threw on my plate as punishment. The one time I attempted to help her cook them, I…

  • Lacy Waxes Lyrical on New Mexico

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    What an excellent submission from site reader Lacy! Seriously, I was so enamored with her writing that I bought a one-way ticket to New Mexico, bar exam be damned. Yo quiero La Choza.In the world of food, there are regions.  The American South, for example, is a region of food.  France is a region of…