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Me on The Early Show

Here's the clip! Thanks to Kalyn of Kalyn's Kitchen for linking to it on Twitter. I appear, at the beginning, for approximately 0.53 seconds. Here's the link to the spaghetti carbonara recipe I made.

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The Early Show

Set your Tivos this Monday morning for the 8 am hour of CBS's The Early Show and you'll see me ("barring breaking news," says the producer) making spaghetti carbonara, my first time cooking on national television.

Big News: The Next Book!

A few weeks ago, something extraordinary happened.

To understand the extraordinariness of this extraordinary thing, we have to rewind a month or two. I'd been working with an excellent agent, Alison Fargis of The Stonesong Press (who I was introduced to by Matt & Renato of Baked) on a new book proposal. This was a different direction for me; my first book was a book of essays, this proposal was for a cookbook. After eight months of revisions and back-and-forth, the proposal was ready to g...

The 2nd Annual New York Foodie Photo Scavenger Hunt

If you've been reading this blog for more than a year, you may remember an exciting contest from last year called "The Great New York Foodie Photo Scavenger Hunt." It worked like this: I wrote a long list of celebrated New York foodie destinations and assigned different points for various tasks that contestants had to undertake at these destinations while posing for pictures that they'd ultimately upload to Flickr. Here are last year's results. As you can see, contestants had the time of...

A Jolly Green Banner

Ho, ho, ho check out this month's new Springy banner. There in a forest of asparagus, sugar snap peas and what looks like Swiss chard, I stand with my chiseled arms and chest (no airbrushing, I swear) in a loin cloth made of leaves. This can only be the work of one artist, our lovely and talented banner illustrator Lindy Groening. Thanks to her, as always, for her wonderful work and thanks to Justin Dickinson for uploading the banner to the site.

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The James Beard Awards' Chef's Night Out

I have a secret to reveal: this year, I was a judge for the James Beard Awards.

Whoah, I just heard your collective gasp through the computer screen. Believe me, I gasped myself when they asked me. It's a pretty gasp-worthy fact, considering that the James Beard Awards are like the Oscars of the food world. At first, I was shocked, then I was terrified, then I was deeply honored and flattered. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what category I judged (that's a major stipulation) but I can...

Ramps: What Up With That?

There's this SNL sketch that Craig and I find pretty funny. Actually, I'm not sure it's even that funny; it's more amusing than funny. Essentially, there's this talk show host (played by Kenan Thompson) who hosts a show called "What Up With That?" and he sings a theme song (also called "What Up With That?") and every time he starts to interview his guests, he starts the song again and nothing ever gets done and there's a man in a red track suit dancing and sometimes a choir and weird cameos a...

What Kind of Drink Do You Serve at a Bachelorette Party?

Tonight I'm hosting a bachelorette party for my dear friend Diana and we're about to go shopping for alcohol. What kind of drink should we serve? I just polled Twitter and here's what the Twitterverse had to say:

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The A.G. Piano Bar

In case you don't follow me on Twitter, every so often I livestream a spontaneous piano concert, taking requests and fielding questions about cooking. (You can read a review of last week's here.) Today you have a little more warning; I'll be serenading you live at 5 PM EST. Click here at 5 to join the fun (and post some song requests, in the meantime, in the comments so I can practice.)

Meyer Lemon Meringue Pie

Ok, I promise, this is it with the Meyer lemons. You're sick of them--after this post, and that post--I know, I know. And when Lindy drew lemons (that sort of look like Meyer lemons) into my banner this month, who knew I'd be writing so much about them? Unless this was Lindy's master plan? What if she works for the Meyer lemon industry? What if her banners are prophecies and whatever she draws in them comes true? What if next month's banner features me...DEAD?! This is like an episode of...