The theme for this month’s Sugar High Friday was Sugar High Friday #41: Sweet Gifts, where I asked you to tell me about a dessert you made (or want to make) for somebody else. What an amazing group of people you are, to have created such a huge collection of sweet gifts for your friends, […]

Yes, February is a bit late for me to be posting Christmas photos. But I have a pile of links to share with you that I’ve been collecting since last October or so, and I never did share any Christmas photos with you at all. I’m a typical agnostic cultural Jew in Brooklyn, raised by […]

I got a copy of Larousse Gastronomique for the holidays this year. What an amazing resource! That’s Dave looking through it up above. Here is another resource that I hope you will enjoy: my favorite recipes and most exciting news from 2007, rounded up below!     January: I started the year with a brand-new […]

Dave and I are still into glassblowing, all right! That’s a photo of us in the studio, working a piece. I’m the gaffer in the photo, making what turned out to be a pretty glorious red mug, and Dave is blowing air into the piece as I shape it with wet newspaper. Those silly purple […]

That fellow up there? That’s my partner, Dave. The one I’m always posting about. You may not have realized it yet, but this food blog is little more than a love poem to him. He doesn’t really have anything to do with this post, though. This is the roundup of all your fabulous entries to […]

I’ve been building up this batch of links a while now. These are food blog posts I’ve come across and considered gorgeous, interesting, inspiring, and overall well worth saving and sharing with the rest of you. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do. The photo above, well, that’s me. (Dave took […]

The photos in this post are of a failed cake. I won’t even bother posting the recipe, it was so unfortunately dry. But I still maintain that nutella and carmelized bananas are a fabulous topping for any cake. In the meantime, these are links to food blog posts I thought were wonderful and well worth […]

That photo up there? That’s the older of my two little brothers. (He physically towers over me now, but still.) He just graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in Anthropology. I’m damn proud of him. For the sake of pretending this post is about food, though, here are a few links to food blog […]

My partner (well, fiance) Dave and I have recently taken up glassblowing at our local glass studio, Urban Glass. The studio is spacious, well-equipped, and very safety conscious. They offer a ton of interesting classes. We are working our way through their glassblowing classes, and renting studio time to practice on our own as often […]

I’ve been posting recipes here for almost a year now – it will be a year come February 26, 2007, in fact. In all that time, I’ve never put together a good index of the recipes I’ve posted here. In honor of my upcoming bloggiversary, here it is at last – my recipe index. I’ll […]

Barbara, my partner Dave’s mother, gave me a copy of The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook by Paula Wolfert for my birthday. I tried out one of the easiest recipes in the book first, by throwing a few eggs into the oven at 225º after soaking them in warm water while the […]

I want to thank and congratulate all of you. When I set the Sugar High Friday #26: Sugar Art challenge for this month’s Sugar High Friday, I was afraid I would scare people off, intimidate them out of just going ahead and having fun. Instead, you went ahead and made an extraordinary array of gorgeous […]

These are photos of a plantain maple tart tatine I made based on a recipe I found here. The best part was sucking on the split vanilla bean after it had been baked in caramelized maple syrup. In other news, tomorrow is the deadline for nominating food blogs for the 2006 Food Blog Awards. There […]

The bird in the top photo was found in my parents’ house by the window, terrified, unable to escape. He was so scared that when we lifted him up with the pool net and carried him outside, he didn’t move at all. You can see how close he let me get to him in order […]

Last Saturday night, I hosted the first-ever (to my knowledge) an entirely fabulous NYC Food Blogger Potluck. It was a smashing success, and I think we are all looking forward to making this a recurring event. I made my french onion soup dumplings, though I should go back and edit that post now that I […]

The top photo is a kitty who utterly charmed me from the other side of the window of an antique/junk store the other day. This is the round-up for The Spice is Right VII: Seasons of Love, where I asked you to write about recipes including spice mixes commonly used in your families. As the […]

This is another collection of food blog posts which have really caught my attention and struck me as worth and saving and, in the case of the recipes, worth trying out. I highly recommend taking a look. This particular set of posts had a certain shared quality to them, an emotional intensity and history. There […]

We bought a bag full of baby zucchini with flowers still attached, and when we took them home and started rinsing them out, we discovered that many of them were filled with dead bees. Yes, bees. What a perk! Under the cut are links to excellent posts by other food bloggers that you ought to […]

Dave made ciabatta the other day. I don’t think he intended for this loaf to end up looking like a snake, but I’m delighted that it did. It has nothing to do with this post, though. Enjoy the food blog posts I’ve linked to! They are splendid.

The subject of the photo above is our beautiful and inedible kitty, Katya. It was taken by a fellow named Brad while Katya was still in the possession of her previous owner, Lisa. It is, of course, completely unrelated to this post. I forgot to photograph yesterday’s rhubarb cream pie, so instead here’s another collection […]

For once, the photo is completely unrelated to the post. That’s a photo of me spinning fire on a rooftop in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY, USA) on July 4, 2004. Photography by Dov. Why am I posting a photo that isn’t of food? Well, I’m moving on April 1, so I’m having trouble finding the time […]