Save the fusilli!

Wait, were you going to eat that? Stop! Don't you know that every single food ever is incredibly problematic - to the environment, to th...

The NYT endorses your cappuccino habit

As you certainly know , I believe you should drink as many lattes as you can stomach. More accurately: I find cheapness-advice that urges yo...

Inauthentic Asian cooking class with WWPD

Dumplings! Such an outside-only food, right? Not so! You, too, can make your suburban New Jersey scientist-housing into an inadvertently-veg...

Exciting job opportunity

A Thai restaurant in the Village is looking for a "management intern." Unpaid. "The intern will have the opportunity to learn...

A full day

-Pastry success: this morning's croissant did not (as far as I know) make contact with the floor . Next stage of becoming an early-morni...

"The mistake happened in the middle of our meal, during the beet course."

The ultimate first-world problem makes it to (where else?) the NYT lifestyle pages.

Euphemistic Mediterranean couscous

If you're a food writer, especially one with a Jewish name, and you want to write about Israel, be sure to provide a thorough disclaimer...

Insensitivity

A while back, I suggested that our new societal respect for justified dietary restrictions has lessened our tolerance for unjustified  ones...

The tasting menu

Only buy what you really want, even if it's more expensive, and spend less. Only eat what you really enjoy, and lose weight. These sugge...

Your daily summary of the Internet

-Fashion site Refinery29 tells you which restaurants have the hottest waitresses . Tyler Cowen, take note . -'Damn neighborhood kids won...

Fish in their entirety

Because I'm suggestible , or because inside this years-old-Uniqlo-clad exterior lies a foodie-hipster, the other night I roasted whole f...

Over the weekend

-Saw the notorious, inescapable first episode of "Girls." It's definitely funny, as well as refreshing to have a self-deprecat...

For a change, trains, France, food, and Jews

-File under obvious, but I wouldn't recommend NJ Transit on St. Patrick's Day. We got seats, because ( as per usual ) there were emp...

Bread and noses

-Kei has inspired me to try again with bread- and croissant-making, and possibly to buy the book she's using. (I had this romantic not...

On meat-eating and dog-ownership

I may have been pushed over the edge, if not into squeamishness veganism , than at least squeamishness quasi-vegetarianism, on Saturday. Aft...

Baking woes

Got butter at Wegman's rather than Whole Foods. Land o Lakes rather than 365. Took it out of the wrapper and was inundated with that hor...

The week, it ended

-Parchment-paper fish (cod fillet, in this case, with lemon, garlic, olive oil, dried thyme, salt, pepper) really is better. Whole fish is ...

Something resembling a pain au chocolat

Chocolate-chip cookies were so terrible as to have to be thrown out. Croissants edible but brioche-like and thus a failure. Cannelés: convin...

Cannelazy UPDATED

In the spirit of pro-kitchen-gadgetry, I might mention the great success that was finally making cannelés, months after my mother got me a s...