60-Second Stir-Fry: Peter Meehan of Lucky Peach
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen and away from the hot seat in Last Chance Food's 60-Second Stir Fry. My advice to this week's guest, Peter Meehan, is to stick with the cold cereal...
View ArticleTokyo: An Unknowable Feast
Peter Meehan wrote restaurant reviews and the “$25 and Under” column in the Dining Section of The New York Times for four years, but I feel like I’ve gotten to know him better through his more recent...
View ArticleGot Any Tips for Making Donuts?
I recently tried making my own donuts. The result: disappointing, exploding circles of greasy dough. OOOfa. I decided that other people's donuts — like the ones I tried this week at the new eatery, 606...
View ArticleWhen Worlds Collide: Food and Garbage
Garbage is a natural extension of our consumption of food. There's waste throughout the process and not just at the end. And yet, I was still surprised when I came upon a web site about making a...
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Meditation on a Starbucks Macchiato
Feeling adventurous, I ordered a fancy-pants coffee at Starbucks. A "lite" caramel macchiato, tall, extra foam. I could taste the artificial sweeteners in the sugar-free, vanilla syrup, but otherwise,...
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What Fresh Hell is This? Turns Out It's Edible
I did a double-take when walking past a fruit stand on the corner of Canal and Mulberry in Chinatown this past weekend. I saw a pile of small hot pink hand grenades with soft, leathery plumes of lime...
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Speedy Romeo Succeeding at Breakneck Speed
In three months, it feels like Speedy Romeo, on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, has galloped from start up to neighborhood fixture.I've been there two times, and it's...
View ArticleRamps versus Gasoline: What Will You Pay Good Money for?
I'm supposed to hyperventilate when I see ramps at my local green market. They're wild! They're the first green veggie of the season! They're SO GOOD, and their season is SO FLEETING!And they're SO...
View ArticlePop Tarts: Don't Buy Them, Make Them from Scratch
There's a strong DIY wind blowing through Brooklyn, as a recent New York Magazine article about the borough's artisanal food makers noted. It blew through my kitchen window the other night.Armed with...
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Empty Lot Once Eyed by Protesters Turns into Food Truck Encampment
The 99% may not have been able to set up camp in the empty lot bordered by Canal Street, Varick Street and Sixth Avenue, but now they can buy tamarind duck sliders and other food cart goodies...
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The Great GoogaMooga: Lessons Learned
The inaugural Great GoogaMooga food and music festival last weekend is a reminder that greatness is neither self-bestowed nor assumed. You have to earn it.From the looks of things during the event in...
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A Hot Debate over Cold-Brewed Coffee
Thinking I was being clever and thrifty one day, I put leftover coffee from my percolator in a glass container and stuck it in the fridge. Voilá, iced coffee!It tasted bitter and flat, and for good...
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When Worlds Collide: Tennis, Cake & WNYC
Love, loss and how I swore — that's one of the ways I like to describe my tennis blog. Yes, dear readers, there's more to me than just radio and eating. I've got to work off the stress and calories...
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Foraging for Food Trends in Brooklyn
When I think of foraging, I think of adventurous foodies on their hands and knees in the woods, looking for morels. When Michael Sinatra thinks of foraging, he thinks of day-long walks through a New...
View ArticleFlavorless
I had a bad food day Thursday. Not "bad" as in salad vs. cheeseburgers. (I don't think of food that way. It doesn't deserve such moralizing.)I mean bad as in flavorless. Bad, as in, everything I ate...
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DIY Food Mash-Up: Hot Dogs, Bacon and Donuts
This Associated Press story caught my eye last week. How could it not?Hot dog, bacon and doughnut lovers can get all three foods in one cholesterol-boosting item at this summer's New York State Fair....
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Annalee Sinclair and Robin Shulman
Community gardener Annalee Sinclair is no stranger to the hot seat. After all, she gardened in a syringe-infested abandoned lot on the Lower East Side, in the 1990s, when the neighborhood was a scary...
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Last Chance Fun: Corn Mazes
I talk about fleeting opportunities for seasonal eating during my regular Friday segment, Last Chance Foods — last week I spoke with Kurt Alstede of Alstede Farms about the waning days of the sweet...
View ArticleSpa NYC: Fitness Proposals for Tourists
Mayor Mike's war against obesity has employed a wide array of weapons, including posted calorie counts at fast food restaurant chains, an end to transfats in baked goods, 1,000 new permits for street...
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Mayo Clinic: My Attempt to Make My Own Mayonnaise
I'm spoiled. I live about six blocks away from Empire Mayonnaise, the artisanal mayo shop that sells little pots of mayonnaise in flavors like lime pickle (my favorite), bacon and black truffle. But...
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