By Erin Gleeson Originally posted on October 6, 2007

That’s it, I’m hooked. The pizza’s amazing, but the best thing about a trip to Di Fara in Brooklyn is to visit the divey little joint and watch the one and only man who is responsible for these glorious
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You know it’s true: it’s damn near impossible these days to find a good sandwich. What’s up with that? I mean seriously, it should NOT be that hard to make a decent-tasting sandwich. I blame Subway’s $5 Footlong
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Last week I was invited to dinner at the Farm on Adderley in Brooklyn and by chance there was a special dinner going on, so we signed up for it! The butchers from Fleisher’s in Kingston, NY were hosting
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Sometimes when I’m lazy, I order delivery. And sometimes when I’m lazy, it will be during the middle of the day. When these powers combine, I seek comfort in the lunch special.

KHAO SARN

My love affair with Thai food began in 2001, when I first tried pad thai and
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Ever since Kayoko packed her bags and returned to the land of eternal sunshine and spotless minds, I’ve been having an ever-growing yearning to return to the good old days of the NY Umamiventure. In particular,
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Yay, look what came in the mail!

If you thought that life could not get any better than the fake paninis produced by the George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling (Grillin’ ?) Machine, you would be wrong. Because life did get better. Did you ever think that one day a home fryer would employ the principle of centrifugal force to
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Troy: last night I went to this new restaurant on Court Street. It’s really awesome however, I started choking during my meal. like, I really couldn’t breatheand one of my fellow diners actually performed the Heimlich on me and it worked! me: OMG!!!!! Troy: I had just gotten my fried chicken and cheddar waffles with maple balsamic sauce
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I really hate the smell of eggs. Omg, the yolks!! I remember this book from when I was 10 because the girl has to eat a raw egg to prove something about something.

This doesn’t really
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This is only sort of food related. My mom’s friend from Osaka is visiting and her daughter sent me these little keychain toys.

The one on the left is supposed to be the tag off a cardboard box. The one on the right is a soybean/edamame. You can rip off the tag and push out the edamame…forever. Watch the
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Isn’t it strange how once you stop blogging it’s so hard to start again? Anyways that’s my excuse. I sort of mastered the art of char siu-ing, which is not nearly as difficult as I imagined. Why does it taste so good?? It’s the pork that comes as topping for your ramen but is never never enough. You can tie
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