June 2006

Like a hot new crush.

June 29, 2006

Sooooooooooooo, last Saturday, Aaron, Debbie, and I hit up the National Building Museum to check out the Green Homes Exhibit (because I am ridiculously pro-eco-design = pretty), and in the GlideHouse they’d built in the beginning of the exhibit, there were some beautiful, beautiful things. I mean, seriously, can you have food porn without cookware/kitchenporn? [...]

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This cheese will kick your ass

June 22, 2006

I am no stranger to offensive cheese. Sometimes I welcome it, but this 14 oz. wheel of Coulommiers definitely took me by surprise. It was, and may still be, on sale at Fairway for $6.99, and was within my budget so I thought I’d give it a shot. Coulommiers is from Brie. On first sight, [...]

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From Recipe Development: Strawberry Frittata

June 20, 2006

This has a weird story behind it, so I may as well get it out of the way. There’s a subway performer that I talk to in the 14th Street traverse – that hot, awful, uphill, block-long tunnel from 6th to 7th Avenues. Richard plays the flugelhorn, which is basically a mellower-sounding trumpet, and he [...]

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Dispatches from the Monger, vol. II

June 14, 2006

What, praytell, is a quince? The question has plagued me for ages. Or maybe just whenever I go into the fancy produce section of Whole Foods. The quince is a foodstuff, like jicama, that I really want to incorporate into my cooking somehow, but am sort of freaked out how to go about doing so [...]

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Failed Doughnut Plant Trip Ends at Schiller’s

June 12, 2006

Doughnuts are one of my other obsessions, and I’d been dying to try out the Doughnut Plant for months now. With all the mild spring (?) weather we’ve been having Marc and I decided it was time to give it a shot. The Lower East Side still fascinates me. It’s so small but takes so [...]

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