July 2006

The Great … no, the Awesome Jones Cafe

July 11, 2006

After everything I’d heard about the Great Jones Cafe, the last thing I was expecting when Meg and I walked through the doors last weekend was a Southern-style roadside shack. (I use the word shack lightly; shack-chic might be a bit better as a descriptor.) Both of us ordered from the day’s specials: an andouille [...]

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The Gourmetro hits 1,000

July 7, 2006

[a little sob] Our little blog got its 1,000th visit the other day. As of this writing we’ve got 1,013 visits from five continents. Aside from the usual Northeasterners, we have a sizeable following in California. Well, it might not be a ‘following’ as such, but we can say we get a goodly number of [...]

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CHOW news

July 7, 2006

I am so emotionally torn and confused at CHOW‘s recent news of its departure from print. I was an early reader and supporter (and they are another reason The Gourmetro exists). Should I be upset with advertisers for not believing in them or the 20-somethings the mag was aimed at (I’m sure it could be [...]

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Oh Mister Dumpling Man…

July 6, 2006

After fighting failure all day (finding a new apartment sucks. Does it ever), I tried to make my way back to the subway from the depths of the Lower East Side (or the East Village, I can never tell where the one and and the other begins – regardless, there weren’t really any subways around, [...]

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From the Office for Unmitigated Failure: Strawberry Frittata

July 5, 2006

I will adapt from Alice B. Toklas, cookbook author. “The [frittata] was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second, and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair with my hands still unwashed , reached for a cigarette, lighted it and waited for the police to come.” In the last few weeks, I have [...]

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