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BITE: My Journal
April 14, 2020
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February 3, 2020
Brooklyn Diner
Sensuous Moments with Shelly…let’s make that “thanks...
January 12, 2020
Wolf in High Heels
A customer service rep will deliver your meal or drink...
January 6, 2020
My Life Eating
How did I ever come to blossom in this strait-laced...
December 23, 2019
A Year of Eating
Soon enough, the chef at The Diner sends plates of

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July 28, 2010 | Short Order
Father and son Demarchelier willl open L’Oubli, a bar with small plates on LES
Veteran restauteur Eric & bar-whiz son Ben in 55-seat joint on Suffolk.

July 20, 2010 | Short Order
The Hundred-Foot Journey, a novel of remarkable insight and sensuality, captures the heat and rage of the kitchen.
Journalist and first-time novelist Richard Morais knows as much as any exile or cook what it means to be an exile and a cook...

July 13, 2010 | Short Order
Stephen Duong opens Co Ba in Chelsea serving Vietnamese street food inspired by sabbatical.
A pioneer of Vietnamese cooking in NYC at Cyclo, Nam, O Mai and Tet, cribs from street stalls

July 8, 2010 | Short Order
Rock Center brass hire Las Vegas dining guru Elizabeth Blau to redo Rainbow Room
Chef Wrangler Blau & Company assigned to give new life and image to landmark at 30 Rock...

June 24, 2010 | Short Order
Despite rumors that Maguy wanted out, Le Bernardin gets a new lease on life
Would she retire to Paris and Mustique? Was he ready to abandon the kitchen?

June 23, 2010 | Short Order
Upper West Side’s Fairway Café gets stay of execution
Supermarket brass to seize 300 sq.ft of Café for fresh hourly bagel bakery

June 21, 2010 | Short Order
Race to fabulous new cakeshop in East Hampton. Gottcha FloFab.
You’ve Got to Get Up Early to Scoop Flo

June 16, 2010 | Short Order
Nicola Civetta will close Primavera after 32 years
Don’t worry. He owns the building and a villa in Tuscany.

June 15, 2010 | Short Order
What The Great Chefs Cooked For Citymeals’ Silver Spoons
Reading The Menu Could Make You Ravenous

June 9, 2010 | Short Order
Fairway Café is cheap and often good. Don’t close it, neighborhood cries.
Rumors Fairway might evict café to make way for groceries spurs protest

June 3, 2010 | Short Order
Insatiable Intern Marie Walsh concocts winning Ballpark Bonbon
Peanuts and beer at a Yankee home game was the inspiration.

June 1, 2010 | Short Order
Ed Brown launches Chef’s Tuesday dinner at Ed’s Chowder House to say “I’m still here”
Five courses for $55, plus optional $45 for wine pairings, maximum 25 guests...

May 25, 2010 | Short Order
Ed Brown selling Eighty One lease: 6000 sq.ft. & custom build chef’s kitchen
Chef juggles offers with tears in his eyes.

May 24, 2010 | Short Order
Chef Roberto Passon hopes to Open Aria Wine Bar on Perry Street in early June
Abandoning Bocca di Bacco, Fruili-born chef struggles to open a place of his own.

May 21, 2010 | Short Order
Upper Westside Kindergartners open popup Ooh La La Cafe for two days at PS87.
Moppets spend months studying feeding biz to polish math and social skills with French toast...

May 13, 2010 | Short Order
What I ate and saw in Tunisia: a lot of tuna, rockin’ruins.
Discover the unknown Tunisia along with me in my Tweets.

April 12, 2010 | Short Order
Hooray: Starz gets my memoir Insatiable for TV series
Working with Robert Lantos and Chris Albrecht is like dancing with Astaire and being fed by Giaradet

April 8, 2010 | Short Order
Cesare Casella Defines Speed Dining at Salumeria Rosi
Dinner will be served (and eaten or else) in 90 minutes

April 5, 2010 | Short Order
Donatella Arpaia finds the man of her dreams
When life deals you lemons, get a shampoo.

March 29, 2010 | Short Order
Forty minutes from Costco shopping cart to table: dinner for four just $101.61
I had a desperate need to taste Costco’s vaunted rotisserie chicken

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