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December 2008

  • 2008 Wrap-Up

    2008 Wrap-Up

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    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…

  • Adam “The Amateur” vs. Randy “The Ram”

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    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. First and foremost…

  • Holiday Bounty

    Holiday Bounty

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    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 thing. Like…

  • The Kindness of Food Bloggers

    The Kindness of Food Bloggers

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    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 the 12 hours on the…

  • Heidi’s Lentil Soup

    Heidi’s Lentil Soup

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    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 find…

  • Katy’s Reindeer Cupcakes

    Katy’s Reindeer Cupcakes

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    My friend Katy is this blog’s godmother: she and her husband Josh were the ones who inspired me to start it five years ago. Just today, I noticed something awesome: Katy made reindeer cupcakes and posted them on her Facebook profile. Ironically, Katy–the food blog inspirer–does not have a food blog of her own so…

  • The No-Knead Bread

    The No-Knead Bread

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    If you haven’t heard about the no-knead bread by now, you clearly don’t read many food blogs (or newspapers, for that matter.) Last year, in The New York Times–actually, TWO years ago in The New York Times (the article was published November 8, 2006! Boy, I’m way behind on making this)–Mark Bittman coaxed a recipe…

  • Deviled Eggs

    Deviled Eggs

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    There are certain dishes that I don’t like until I make them myself. For example, this may come as a shock to you, but I used to hate–and I mean hate–macaroni and cheese. I know! But I grew up in a non-cheese household (longtime readers know that my dad hates cheese) so whenever I’d go…

  • My Top 10 Restaurant Dishes of 2008

    My Top 10 Restaurant Dishes of 2008

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    There are 15 days to go in 2008, so there’s definitely a chance I’m being too hasty with this list of my favorite restaurant dishes of 2008. But reading through my archives, these were the dishes that popped out immediately, that triggered specific synapses in my brain to fire darts into my salivary glands, making…

  • Tali’s Cookies

    Tali’s Cookies

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    First of all, apologies for the slow posting (or, rather, no posting) this week: I was in Georgia doing research for a top secret project that may or may not go anywhere–you’ll have to wait and see. But now I’m back and do you know the first thing I ate after walking back into my…