Category: Food and Drink

Just some things to chew on … Yesterday I caught a slip of the Today show in which Matt and two lady doctors sat and chatted about which “healthy” foods might or might not be reeeealy evil in disguise. They singled out some fish (swordfish, tilefish, king mackerel, shark) to avoid because of high mercury.…

Food & Wine has launched a Chowhound meets MySpace kinda thingy called Food & Wine Across America. Does it feel like they’re using locals to ferret out story ideas? Well, check it out … there’s an interactive map and everything!

There’s nothing culinary about cold, smeared toast and rubbery scrambled eggs thrust towards my sleeping head. But that kind of meal isn’t for filling the stomach, it’s for filling the heart. On Mother’s Day, I think less about what I deserve to get and more about what I still hope to give. There’s so much…

hirny schmirny schmirny hirny schmirny bork bork bork Sooooooo. Mr. Top Chef #1 has finally made his claim on the NY eating scene. Yes, I was a Tiffani fan to the end, but I did heart Harold like the rest of you. I think it’s fantastic that he opened a small space with a friend…

Every year I get the fever to forage. The thought of walking around a park for a couple of hours and coming out with an armload of wild edibles is like winning the lottery to me. Pirate like, even. Today I am especially craving mushrooms, morels. Maybe it was the overdose of cheap and tawdry…

like a kitchen mixer … There’s just a bunch of stuff swirling around my brain today… Doug Flicker’s new menu at Mission started on Monday. I slinked in for lunch and had a nice egg sandwich, but our server had to read from his pack of notes to answer quetions, and a different egg dish…