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Shrimp with Saffron and Tomato
Even work-night meals call for a little bit of extravagance. Take this super-simple shrimp dish, which is one of those crunched-for-time throw-together things and would actually be sort of boring were...
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Off the Menu: BBLT Panino
Inspiration: Murray's Cheese ShopIf you truly are what you eat, I’d wager a guess that Brian and I are each about 50% cheese. And I blame Murray’s. Murray’s is arguably the best cheese store in New...
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1794
I certainly don’t think myself a revolutionary, but I do consider whiskey-drinking serious business. So too, it seems, did settlers along the frontier of a fledgling United States, judging by the...
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Pasta with Pancetta, Pepper, and White Wine
This past Monday evening, faced with a nearly empty fridge and too lazy to hop on the subway, we came close to throwing up our hands and trying our luck with one of the reliably mediocre restaurants...
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Oxtail Soup with Shiitake and Tofu
My first foray into cooking with oxtails came just a couple of weeks ago, when I adapted for my handy-dandy pressure cooker a recipe from the New York Times by David Chang, the famously meat-adoring...
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Off the Menu: Orecchiette with Cauliflower
Inspiration: Lupa Though I long ago overcame most of my childhood vegetable aversions (asparagus, eggplant, avocados, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini—oh, how I hated zucchini!), I...
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Death in the Afternoon
Absinthe. Just the word stirs up a flicker of apprehension in the hearts of casual and veteran imbibers alike. I too had my concerns, my mind filled with images of naughty green fairies, straight...
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Creamy Hummus
Hummus Place, a mini-chain of little shops in Manhattan, has, in this hummus-lover's opinion, achieved the pinnacle of chickpea-puree perfection with their exceptionally smooth and creamy product. The...
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Sushi in Central Queens
Is there such a thing as good sushi in Central Queens? Brian and I have spent the past few weeks investigating the situation, and I wrote about it for About.com. Click here for the roundup--which...
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Rosetta Wines at Atlas Park
Last weekend, on one of our usual hikes to the Atlas Park Mall, Sarah and I dropped by Rosetta Wines. We’ve checked this spot out before, but it’s definitely been awhile. Maybe it was the fantastic...
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