Writings :
Essays
- Tweeting vs. Blogging
- What Makes A Great Steakhouse
- The Key Food Across The Street
- No Jacket Required (A Casual Dining Manifesto)
- Food Tastes Better When It Has a Good Story
- Food Negation Theory
- My First Christmas
- People Who Eat In
- My Dinner with Frank Bruni
- Music While You Eat, Music While You Cook
- Bones
- It Matters
- Going Back
- How I Almost Appeared on Top Chef
- The Hell's Kitchen Finale
- Objectivity, Subjectivity and Food (a discussion)
- Don't Make A Mess-o of Your Espresso
- "Ratatouille" & Jewish Assimilation (an essay, with spoilers)
- In Praise Of Simple Syrup
- Needs
- Top Chef Thoughts
- In Defense of Food Blogging
- Diner Food
- American Food Manifesto
- Fooled By Fat (The Buttery Contessa)
- The Dessert Menu Drop
- The Age of Nutritionism
- Peppermint Soap Burns Your Balls
- My Impression of Top Chef
- Service
- Playbillgate
- More Blogging Advice
- Why Do We Pay So Much For Breakfast Food?
- Thoughts on Tonight's Episode of Top Chef II
- Deep Thoughts About The Food Panel at The 92nd Street Y
- Cappuccino vs. Latte
- Calvin Trillin's "Come Hungry" Tour
- Fat
- Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television
- How I Don't Get Bored
- What I Can Tell You About The Taping I Attended of "Iron Chef America" Without Having To Pay The Food Network $1,000,000
- Revelations of the Oven Thermometer
- Sometimes Good Food Looks Like Vomit
- When I Get That Feeling I Want Proustian Healing (PLUS: Rainbow Cookies!)
- On Food and Writing (Part 1 in a 62 Part Series)
- What am I, Chopped Liver?
- On Feasting and Family
- Entitlement and Food: Part Three of an 87 Part Series
- Vanilla is NOT "Vanilla"
- Coming To Terms with Cold Stone Creamery
- From Abstraction to Reality: A Half-Baked Essay on Food with a Generous Contest Offer in the Last Paragraph
- The Carbohydrate Manifesto
- Entitlement and Food: Part Two of an 87 Part Series
- Entitlement and Food: Part One of an 87 Part Series
- BEHIND THE GREEN APRON: A Starbucks Expose
- Matrilineal Noodle Pudding
