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March 7, 2011
A Shaving Dilemma
March 4, 2011
French Toad-in-the-Hole
What if you wake up tomorrow morning, tomorrow being Saturday, and you find yourself craving something savory, but you have all the ingredients for making French Toast?
Do you kowtow to your lazy, uninspired side and start heating the maple syrup, or do you allow inspiration to strike? Choose the latter path, the one less traveled by, and you will wind up with what I wound up with last week: French Toad-in-the-Hole!
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March 3, 2011
Fusilli with Tomatoes, Bacon & Blue Cheese
There it was, in the pan, ready to eat. A big panful of fusilli, coated in a sauce I'd improvised with bacon, red chile flakes, tomato paste and a can of tomatoes. I'd let the sauce cook down until it was nice and thick and then boiled the fusilli until just al dente, lifting it with a spider into the pan of red sauce. I stirred it all around, ready to grate on a traditional cheese like Parmesan or Pecorino, when I had a vision.
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The Negroni
At the bar of Michael Symons's Lola in Cleveland, Ohio, I first encountered the Negroni.
Michael Ruhlman, who was there to participate in a segment we were shooting for Food Network online, ordered the drink and I asked him about it. "It has Campari," he told me, "gin and sweet vermouth." I ordered one too and when it came I assumed, because of the bright red color, that it would be sweet. I was very, very wrong.
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March 2, 2011
Dinner with Two Atlanta Food Critics at Peter Chang's
In 2004, Atlanta Journal-Constitution food critic John Kessler wrote an article about me and my blog called "Welcome to Adam's." (You can read it here.)
At the time, food blogging was very, very new and Kessler was baffled and amused by my antics: "Why does this recent Emory law school grad record every meal he eats out — whether a lackluster slice at Johnny's Pizza or an extravagant tasting menu at Per Se, the new Manhattan sibling to California's French Laundry? Why does he post photos of everything?"
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March 1, 2011
An Oscar & A Milkshake
It's not every day that your friend wins an Oscar. But on Sunday night, our friend Luke (who went to film school with Craig) won an Oscar for his short film, "God of Love." (You can watch it on iTunes here.)
For anyone who watched the Oscars, you'll remember his speech (New York Magazine called it one of the evening's best moments.) Luke gave me his permission to post the above photo on my blog....
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Collecting Vintage Menus to Hang in My Kitchen
I'm not sure how the idea came to me. How did it come to me?
Ok, I was in San Francisco, staying with my friends Kristen & Felix, and I had a bit of a cold (another illness! Proof that I'm dying?) While coughing and sneezing in their guest bedroom, I was noodling around on the internet and found myself on E-Bay. And while on E-Bay (a site I rarely visit) I had the sudden idea to search for vintage menus. And a new addiction was born....
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Egg Salad with Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Anchovies
Cooking, sometimes, is like a game. The game changes from dish to dish, but often, for me, the game is: How Can I Make This Better Without Leaving My Apartment?
This is a fun game to play, especially when you're making something as pedestrian as an egg salad sandwich. You boil the eggs, you peel them, then you put them into a bowl and look at them. That's when the game starts.
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February 24, 2011
How To Always Get A Seat at a Crowded Coffee Shop
Every day I go to a coffee shop to work on my book. And every day I witness the same phenomenon: people poke their heads through the door, look at all the crowded tables, sigh a heavy sigh and leave.
I want to yell out: "Don't leave! You're giving up too easily!" But since most people can't hear the thoughts in my head, they continue to march their lonely march away; and it's for these people that I am writing this post. God willing, they'll read it and realize there's always a way to get a seat at a crowded coffee shop.
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February 22, 2011
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