A final piece in Gourmet

Before it disappears after this month, here's the piece I produced for Gourmet online in their last food package ever. Ironically for me, it covers street food in Miami--a place I wasn't incredibly fond of living, but which ended up providing me the material for a magazine I've always admired. 

Eight Great Street Food Vendors in and Around Miami

As for what's next, I obviously haven't been posting much here--so soon, I'll have a more permanent website with projects that are just beginning to bubble below the surface. 

Oink, oink, sizzle, sizzle

Zingerman's Delicatessan is a hometown favorite of mine, where I spent bygone university days eating sour cream coffee cake, pecan pie and barbecue chicken sandwiches. My beau was known to ride me on his handlebars over to Detroit Street minutes before closing to get a chocolate and coffee study fix. On study dates I was often found dashing to the counter at the sight of fresh rugelach samples.

Alas, Ann Arbor is a memory. With as many amazing stores as New York has, none quite measure up to Z's. Luckily, they deliver.

Besides a stellar mail order company, Zingerman's proprietor Ari Weinzweig also tells a darn good story. This time, he's tackled bacon with Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon. Even with America's overwrought bacon frenzy, Ari has produced a work of genuine pigletry, salty and smart as ever.

Here's the latest Tasting Table I fried up: Bacon 101

Reading through, you're bound to encounter a rumbling belly, but fortunately, Zingerman's has the answer: mail bacon.

Red Hook + Maine = Lobster Roll

A bit late on posting this one, but last week I wrote about Red Hook Lobster Pound's lobster roll debut at the Brooklyn Bridge Flea (which Urban Daddy totally ripped off).

Maine in New York

Last weekend a line from DUMBO to Kennebunkport told everyone that Red Hook knows what's up. Get there early this Sunday or be doomed to a weekend without lobster.

Bring on the greens

This summer I'm lending a hand to seedling CSA for Paisley Farm with pick ups at Jimmy's No. 43 from summer snap pea season to high squash harvest come Autumn. 

We have a little blog going over at the Paisley Farms site, so stop by to get some ideas for those seven pounds of kale and loads of rapini you manically purchased at the greenmarket. (It's okay, the greenmarket transforms me into a shopaholic too).

The Blog At Paisley

We've got a lot lined up for the season with add-ons for coffee, fruit, milk, eggs, poultry and cheese, so many more recipes will follow. Plus you can drink a beer while getting your greens and talking with your neighbhors. It's pretty much the coolest CSA ever.

School's out for the summer

My latest bit on Tasting Table. More to come soon.

Schoolhouse Kitchen's Delicious Cause