60-70 years?  Not a bad run.  Lauded and loathed in turns, Gourmet was at the center of food writing for a very long time. It was aspirational stuff – most of us were never going to experience culinary travel like that or be in a position to compare and contrast the top ten truffle oils. [...]

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Just some links I’ve found as I make a leisurely Sunday “stroll” through the usual foodie sites.  Settle down with some coffee and check them out. Sure, we’ve heard many stories of odd, non-food items getting into fast food. Our reaction ranges from “meh” to “Oh dude that is GROSS!” depending on the item in [...]

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Last night was a bit of a stroll down memory lane for me, food wise. I spent many years working in the Flatiron district – my first three jobs out of college and the internship I had my senior year all happened within the confines of that immediate neighborhood. During that time, I had more [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the finalists for this year’s Vendy Awards have been announced and as a proud New Yorker, I feel the need to check them out personally.  What’s that? No, not Wendy’s. I said the Vendys. You must have heard of it – it’s been going on for years (well four – but that’s [...]

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Okay, not tripe itself, but rather what it seems to represent in British Cookery today. By which I mean an almost dementedly determined return to “old fashioned school dinners” and all that entails. I may not be able to follow the height or shape of this season’s hemlines, but I do try to keep an [...]

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