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As promised, here is my first restaurant review in quite a while. I don’t have any interest in derailing anyone’s career, particularly a chef so media-aggrandized as this one, but I’ve received not a peep by way of acknowledgement. Fine, don’t take me seriously. July 21, 2010 Dear Mr. Werfelnann and Chef Weingarten, I am writing you this Continue reading An Open Letter to Inside Park Mark and I are taking a few days up in the Finger Lakes region of New York to celebrate three years of marriage. Here’s a repost of our trip from our last Finger Lakes trip. I’ll let you know if anything has changed when we return home: October 19th, 2008 Day 1 Continue reading Hitting the Road to the Finger Lakes  Two years ago, Mark and I went to Savannah over Father’s Day weekend and it remains one of the best trips we’ve taken. Short, but full of food and adventure and people so friendly you have to pinch yourself. I’m reposting the report from that trip to inspire a weekend getaway, for both you Continue reading Savannah, Revisited  This morning began early. (Side note: I’ve been asked a lot recently what I’m planning to do. I’d like to figure out a work day that consistently begins and ends at the same time. This whole work late, work early thing is wearing me out!) Anyway, it began early, running around the apartment gathering Continue reading From the Farmer’s Market to White Manna Burger  I want to share with you a group that has really touched my heart, both the chef-heart and the teacher-heart. My instructor, colleague and friend Neal Bermas has created a restaurant and training center in Vietnam to educate the street kids there in the hospitality and tourism industries. From the STREETS website: STREETS INTERNATIONAL (“STREETS”) is a Continue reading STREETS International  Standing in the newly renovated Astor Center, I met Chef Eric Ripert of Le Bernadin. I was nervous, this being my first official interview, but as soon as the Chef, smiling, relaxed in jeans and a green button-down shirt, walked in looking for me, I was put at ease, in that oh-my-god-I’m-interviewing-Eric-Ripert kind of Continue reading On the Line with Eric Ripert 
Mark & I have just returned from the International Association of Culinary Professionals’ annual conference and I am profoundly moved, inspired and changed by the people and plates that I met along the way. From the Denver’s mayor to fellow bloggers, cookbook authors, teachers and travelers that I had lunch with everyday, from as Continue reading IACP Conference in Denver  Mark & I are antsy for spring. We’ve got all of our seed catalogues and spend evenings pouring over heirloom herbs and vegetables to soon be planted in our backyard. Until the 50 degree days are here to stay (and turn into 70, 80, 90 degree days after that) we’ve been working hard to Continue reading Weekend Diary of the G&P  Ok, so perhaps the use of “authentic” isn’t exactly fair because I’ve never actually eaten in Japan, but having watched lots of Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmer tells me that this place is the real deal in New York City. Yokocho’s entrance is at 8 Stuyvesant Street, between 3rd Avenue & 9th Street, next to Continue reading Authentic Japanese at Village Yokocho Now that the summer is over *sniff* I thought I’d give you an idea for a day trip to the Hamptons that is cheap, fun, and will leave you full and warm. First let me say that the Long Island Railroad advertises itself as a way to see the Hamptons while leaving your car at Continue reading Channing Daughters Winery & Townline BBQ The Gourmand & I are home from a brilliant six day tour of our home state. (Yes, yes, we know we live in New Jersey, but we will forever be New Yorkers!) So, how do you do it well? A little bit of nature, a little bit of food, wine and good friends, that’s Continue reading How to Tour the Finger Lakes of New York The Gourmand & I are off to the Finger Lakes region of New York, to camp, get some pumpkins, take in the colors and taste lots and lots of wines! A full report when Continue reading A Road Trip to the Finger Lakes  Despite the fact that I love food, I have some basic ground rules. 1. I don’t eat eel. Ever, no way, no how, not ever. Someday I’ll tell you why, but trust me. I have my reasons. 2. I don’t eat food with faces. Number one is serious. Number two, my boundaries are much more pliable. For Continue reading Beef Tongue on 32nd Street Last night, the Gourmand & I had a genuine date night. Our friend was performing the opening night of his Fringe Festival show, and the curtain wouldn’t rise until 9:15pm. This is usually my bedtime. So, we decided to plan a date night, including the show, which was to be held downtown, in New Continue reading Can’t Make it to Beijing? How About Chinatown?  What?! A restaurant review? Okay, so the truth is I was a little traumatized by my last attempt at a restaurant review and promise to, from this point forward, name the place, even if the review is less than flattering. This however, is not one of those reviews. This is an appraisal at Park Slope’s Continue reading Alchemy Restaurant I have a new love, and her name is Savannah, Georgia. We fell in love over food, she being the foodiest city in the United States, in my estimation. The Gourmand & I went for a weekend to interview the city as a potential nest. Those of you who know us know, we do Continue reading Oh, Savannah! It is in poor taste, I know, to launch a new blog and then disappear for a full week! And, without fair warning, and for that, dear readers, I apologize – we hope you can forgive us ; -) We were here and loved every relaxing moment. Also, I had a moment of ethical pause. Prior to Continue reading Where have we been?!  This post will be mostly a review of Thomas Beisl, Austrian restaurant in Fort Greene, Brooklyn across the street from BAM. However, I have to give a nod to what brought us there last night. Eight of us, The Gourmand & the Peasant and parts of each of our families, descended on the place Continue reading Thomas Beisl & Paul Simon  The previous post was also about Sidecar, but last night, we actually ate there. You’ll recall (or scroll down to see) that they are ‘closed Mondays.’ We arrived a little early last night, after rescheduling our plans with dear friends Emily & Orson, so the Gourmand and I sat down at the bar and Continue reading Sidecar: Beer, Burger, Bar Hungry for a recession special? If not, awesome. If you are, or you just like good cheap food, Monday nights at Cafe Steinhoff in Brooklyn offers a bowl of Goulash for six bucks. You can sit at a table next to a dad with his kids or an old couple, or share the bar with Continue reading $6 Goulash  Applewood restaurant is amazing. Not the most journalistic way to describe a restaurant, for sure, but the truth. In its prior incarnation, 501 11th Street in Park Slope was a bar, the Blah Blah lounge, and I was a bartender there. We were known for cold cocktails mixed as the Sex in the City Continue reading Applewood for Restaurant Week Aquavit Brunch Yesterday, Mark & I went out to brunch at Aquavit restaurant in New York city: an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of swedish specialities, including pickled herring of eight varieties, paté, cold cuts of salty meats, eggs hard-boiled and topped with dill craime fraiche and caviar, and chafing dishes with swedish meatballs, sliced lamb and potatoes Continue reading Aquavit  |
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