Food writer and broadcaster Marlena Spieler
- 31.10.07 Happy Halloween! Eat candy, be happy!
- But start with a nice big crunchy spicy Asian-inspired salad, perfect for pre-trick-or-treat munching. And if you run out of candy, make some chocko-macadamia popcorn! Get into your costume and let the night have its way with you!
- 13.9.07 Another year, another apple--Shana Tova to you and you and you.......
- Happy Rosh Ha Shana, that is, the first day of the Jewish New Year. Apples and honey all around, sweet challah, sweet wishes, and most important: a sweet sweet year to you!
- 7.9.07 The Roving Feast: The Bakers of Napoli had a party! And I was invited!
- Oh, the bread, the bread, the tomatoes and olive oil, the gorgeous bakers in their skimpy undershirts (well, when they were baking the bread and got close to the hot wood-burning ovens, they took off their bakers' whites and voila: those delightfully skimpy undershirts)....all under the shadow of Vesuvius! Best party ever, a carb-fest to delight in!
- 24.7.07 The Roving Feast: Peaches, Nectarines, Mai and Mas
- Mai Pham is the chef who dazzled us with platter after platter of spicy Vietnamese flavours combined with peaches and nectarines, David Mas Masumoto is the farmer who grew the fruit. Me? I'm the eater, and a happier (okay okay, and greedier) eater you couldn't find. Mai and Mas tell me that they're doing the dinner again, this year, August 15 at Mai's Lemongrass restaurant, Sacramento.
- 24.7.07 The Roving Feast: Swimming, Swimming, Swimming
- And afterwards everything tastes really really good. Why not have some eggplant, the Greek way? Such as in this recipe...oh, and check out the gorgeous eggplants on my bathing cap. Wish they were real...any bathing cap designers out there?
- 24.7.07 The Roving Feast: My Hotel in New York City
- The Carlton Arms, my home away from Home. Its not for everyone, but if you can keep from bursting into tears when you walk through the door, you're sure to have a groovy time. Cozy, friendly, and they're even letting me adopt a kitty for them! When you get hungry go have a bagel at Ess a Bagel, go for a swim next door at Baruch College, check out the second hand stores along third ave, and 23rd...and for a very yummy burger, go to Shake Shack, Danny Meyer's venture at Madison Square Park. Eat the burger while you hang out at the door park watching the pooches frolic. Whats that you say? You go to New York for culture, museum, plays, galleries and art? Well, Ye Olde Carlton Arms has lots of art. And if it doesn't have art you like, offer to make some of your own.
- 24.7.07 Roving Feast: Watermelon and Lime!
- Its simple, its delicious and its the season! Watermelon. Even better with tequila...