Category Archives: New York City

Roger Smith Cookbook Conference was Bound to Please and a Winner in my Books

I’ll begin this blog post by serv­ing up a link to an excel­lent piece of writ­ing by a young fel­low from the U.K. who was sit­ting next to me dur­ing one of the lively pan­els at the excel­lent two-day Roger Smith Cook­book Con­fer­ence I attended recently in New York.

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Sweet Smell of Success and a Few Bites from the Big Apple

I can’t go for too long with­out a visit to my favourite place: Manhattan.

There’s some­thing about the buzz, hub­bub and hum that per­me­ates it both night and day — not to men­tion the food aro­mas ema­nat­ing from food carts and eater­ies at every cor­ner — that make that place feel like home.

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Bites from the Big Apple

For var­i­ous rea­sons, includ­ing Cana­dian Thanks­giv­ing, I had to return to Toronto halfway through the recent New York City Wine & Food Fes­ti­val. I fig­ure I’ll catch up with the likes of Bobby Flay, Martha Stew­art and Alton Brown when they do their stuff in Miami dur­ing the South Beach ver­sion of this Food Net­work event in late Feb­ru­ary, 2011.

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Having a (meat) ball at New York food fest

NEW YORK: Okay, so the title of this entry is an under­state­ment, a seri­ous understatement.

This city — my favourite place to be and one that truly feels like home — has gone bananas over meat­balls. And no, I did not eat “a meat­ball” as the title of this entry implies — it was more like 15 but who’s count­ing.

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There is a steak in Spanish Harlem

In Jan­u­ary, I was vis­it­ing my brother Eric in the heart of West Harlem where he now lives when the steak crav­ing struck.

Only one year apart in age, my bro and I have sim­i­lar taste in food. In a nut­shell, we both like to eat. And on this par­tic­u­lar day, a hunk of red meat was the mutu­ally desired dish du jour.

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