Cook These Two Things You should absolutely keep some ketchup around the house. And soy sauce, and Sriracha, and a good BBQ sauce. And some honey. But if you really want to add fl...
Fuck Smores Graham Crackers were created to stifle the libido. Marshmallows are a sickly-sweet, cloying blob that, when properly heated, becomes a sort of confectionery na...
Front of House The other night, we had a wonderful dinner made by chef Tien Ho, who’s best known as the founding chef of Má Pêche (I got to join Ed Levine when he had the mea...
Omnipotent and Irresistible [T]he burger is omnipotent and irresistible. It can never be weakened. It can never be slowed down. It can never stop its ever-increasing growth in popularit...
The Difference Between Lemons and Limes A few weeks ago, I asked the people who follow my Twitter account to describe the difference between lemons and limes. My immediate prompt was because I wa...
I Will Cut You Last Friday was my birthday. Hooray! I have a fantastic wife, so she treated me to a pig-butchering class at The Brooklyn Kitchen . I like meat, and I like...
Blogs of the Year: Serious Eats Today’s Blog of the Year Pick: Serious Eats . I love food, but I could never quite put my finger on what was wrong with the food blogs I’d tried to re...
The First Flush I like to drink tea, either from my neighborhood tea shop or from what I brew at home, a nice cup of Darjeeling. “Darjeeling Tea” means more than you might...
Cooking Up a Design Ryan Freitas, whose culinary wisdom I can personally vouch for, just shared some insights into his idea that designers can learn a lot from the discipline of...
Burgers on the Beach, Kids If you’re in NYC, you should join me, and my friends from Serious Eats , A Hamburger Today , and Gothamist for the Burger Bash at Water Taxi Beach tomorr...
The food is del.icio.us Former New Yorker Joshua Schachter’s captured his New York Essentials , the short list of places you can’t afford to miss when visiting NYC. Every single one...
The Importance of Infographics “ The PB&J diagram has to be the most important food related item I have ever seen on the web. ” Today’s National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, and...
National Pig Day! I grew up in Pennsylvania, where they still observe the fake holiday “Flag Day”. That’s even lower than Arbor Day. So I’m quite pleased that someone is observi...
The Festival of Pork Over on Serious Eats, 30 Days of Pork . Amanda’s project makes so much sense to me. Just one of the highlights of an all-pork day on the site. I should have o...
Pizza Requires Culture It’s worth taking the time to really enjoy this amazing recounting of an effort to duplicate the recipe for Patsy’s pizza. It’s great for a few reasons: Go...
Hooray Cholesterol! Over at Threadless, “ Hooray Cholesterol! ” I particularly enjoyed the chainsaw-wielding cupcake....
Food, Glorious Food Rafe explains how to start loving food . I basically did the same thing a few years ago, and it’s the kind of change that improves your life in a million wond...
Halalapalooza We live across the street from a very, very good roasted chicken place. It’s middle-eastern, with an audience that appears to consist primarily of the Manhatta...
chicken Tonight I had chicken for dinner. I’d recommend you try the same thing some time. Might sound wacky or “out there”, but it’s actually pretty good and it tastes...
cheesy teeth Partial transcript of an Actual Phone Call from one of the crazy people at our office: Remember what the doctor said? Well, y’know how he said not to eat a...
nacho cheese What do you call cheese that doesn’t belong to you? Nacho cheese. And with that, I bid you all adieu for a few days....
vegetarian fish Every vegetarian I know seems convinced that fish are vegetables. I don’t have the heart to correct them....
cereal recycling Curiously, I’ve become convinced that, if I eat a bowl of cereal and there’s milk left over, running to the kitchen, grabbing a chocolate chip cookie, and dipp...
mirror link Hello, visitors from the Mirror . Too bad you’ve stumbled across my site right now, I’m not updating for a little while. But if I were, I would regale you wit...
Jones Diner Jason ‘s mention of a meal at the Jones Diner brought to mind the recent story that we ran about the threats to its existence that are posed by the inevit...
I still like sprouts. This I still like sprouts. This was one of the least interesting things I learned at lunch today. I’ll tell you the other stuff later....
okra is o-kay Also, to those of you who don’t know, okra is not gross . The reason you’ve always thought it’s slimy and disgusting is because, unlike someone as fortunate a...
Jason has captured the small Jason has captured the small humans . They will make a tasty treat. Betcha can’t eat just one!...
In honor of my newly-unemployed In honor of my newly-unemployed status, I bought Ramen noodles today for the first time in years. They’re as salty and yucky as I remembered....
Grimaldi's Pizzeria really is the Grimaldi’s Pizzeria really is the best pizza I’ve ever had. Go eat some. I wish I were there right now....
From Whim & Vinegar: Does From Whim & Vinegar : Does anyone else go to both McDonalds and Burger King (or two other fast food places) when they get fast food because they like...
a reply from Shaun Reilly! Success! If you’ll kindly look back to 11 September , you’ll see that we had sent a message to Shaun Reilly, proprietor of ReillyBurger.com to congratulat...
