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Recipes
  • A Celebration of Fruit
  • Almost Like Mom's Macaroni and Cheese
  • Chocolate Wickedness
  • Danish Meat Loaf
  • Green Risotto
  • My Ex-Sister-in-Law's Orange Pour Cake
  • My Mom Saralee's Chocolate Big Bite Cookies
  • The Morning-After Orange Fruit Soup



  • BITE: My Journal
    January 30, 2012
    Bowery Diner Ambition
    I like the vintage diner airs with retro metal chairs...
    January 23, 2012
    La Mangeoire Redux
    Such longevity in this cruelly fickle town might be...
    January 16, 2012
    Prima on First
    It's Saturday night live and neighbors with a car have...
    January 9, 2012
    El Cheapo Does Lunch
    The economy needs me to lunch, for these three places...
    January 3, 2012
    Insatiable Highs, 2011
    Of all Bites this year, these are my favorites…

    Favorites

        From time to time I will post roundups or lists of my favorites restaurants, food shops or dishes. I'll tell you where I really go. What's worth a splurge. Where you'll find chefs late at night. Breakfast Priorities. Favorite haunts of other food writer friends. Ice cream Worth the Detour. Watch for more.

     

    November 14, 2011 | Favorites
    Favorite Holiday Desserts
    I asked Cookbook writer friends to send me a favorite Holiday dessert. And I added mine.

    May 24, 2010 | Favorites
    A Collection of My Twitters
    Many Insatiable readers avoid Twitter.com like the plague. But just in case you’re interested in my concise thoughts, here’s a small archive.

    May 18, 2010 | Favorites
    Travel Tweets

    May 6, 2010 | Favorites
    Top Chef Masters

    August 4, 2009 | Favorites
    Dreaming Aloud

    August 4, 2009 | Favorites
    On the New York Times

    August 4, 2009 | Favorites
    Eating Out

    June 22, 2009 | Favorites
    A Tasting of Non-alcoholic Beer
    One day the Road Food Warrior realized he had consumed more than his lifetime supply of booze and he determined to give up alcohol. It soon grew a tad lonely out there…

    December 26, 2008 | Favorites
    Collectible Cookbooks
    This is the year of My Book is Bigger than Your Book.... In a few cases size is a distraction from lack of content.

    November 10, 2008 | Favorites
    Bargainistas' Black Book
    Unlike some newly strapped Wall-Streeters, we have always been bargain hunters when it comes to drinking and dining out, if only because our wallets have never managed to keep up with our appetites...

    September 30, 2008 | Favorites
    The Preposterous Palace
    For cuisinary highs and giggles, I will tell about my first dinner at the preposterous and preposterously delightful Palace…

    May 27, 2008 | Favorites
    Loveable Italians
    Dinner at an Italian restaurant can be like going home, a childhood revisited, or new worlds encountered (Italian getting lost between France and El Bulli). This city is richly served in Italian. Modest and unassuming. Fiercely regional. Authentic and understated. Down-home family dives and romantic cubbies. Upscale ambitious fusion. So many choices. Of all the Italians I have loved over the years – these are the places I go to right now.

    March 15, 2008 | Favorites
    Upper West Side Sweets
    When life gets us down, we eat dessert first. At least our very own Upper West Side sweet tooth will not be denied. In just the last three months, Magnolia Bakery, Grandaisy Bakery and Jacques Torres...

    December 31, 2007 | Favorites
    2007 Best Dishes
    If you’re a certified foodie, you won’t be surprised how often sea urchin reigned in many of my year’s best dishes. But even I’m worried that I’m a hopeless fool for macaroni ’n’ cheese…

    November 5, 2007 | Favorites
    Best So Far
    What’s new and good? all my friends ask. Of all the restaurants I’ve written about on InsatiableCritic.com where am I eager to eat again?

    August 18, 2007 | Favorites
    10 Minute Recipes
    Great cooks share 10 minute tricks to keep you cool in the kitchen. Try Liz Smith’s White Trash Soup, Rozanne Gold’s 2 minute Tuna Tataki, My Raw Tomato Sauce for Pasta…

    June 13, 2007 | Favorites
    Yes, Where I Actually Go for Lunch
    Shock of the fabulous, simple pleasures, bar-side intimacy...

    June 4, 2007 | Favorites
    Steaks Worthy of the Road Food Warrior
    The heroic rib eye, a lofty double sirloin, the obligatory truffled gnocchi...

    May 29, 2007 | Favorites
    Where I Go When I'm Pinching Pennies
    Crisp pizzas at Celeste, Greek home-cooking at Kefi, Fairway Cafe's proud burger...