Cajun Chicken Alfredo

May 5, 2011

I’ve met the Crown Prince of Holland, drooled and babbled at Ruth Reichl in Gourmet’s test kitchens, had Oprah (my neighbor at the time) smile at me as she walked past with her dogs, and talked to Josh Duhamel while he was waiting for his wife, Fergie, to come out of the restroom during intermission […]

Tagged as: celebrites, cookbooks, foodnetwork, guyfieri, guyfierifood, Recipes

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Serving a Six-Course Meal on the L Train in 22 Minutes

May 4, 2011

That’s what my friends from the supper club A Razor, A Shiny Knife did on Sunday morning. The antics landed them in the Dining Section of today’s New York Times (link). Update: You can also check out a video on a post from the team here. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="373" caption="Lunch is served."][/caption] [caption id=”” […]

Tagged as: arask, arazorashinyknife, brooklyn, events, parties, supperclubs

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Food Trucks in Brooklyn: Where Are the Hidden Gems?

April 29, 2011

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption=""Cupcake Truck!" Photo Credit: Telstar Logistics on Flickr"][/caption] Every fall in New York City for the last six years, the Vendy Awards has served as a cultural mashup of all that is great about this city: tasty street food from every borough, people who are nuts about street food and the […]

Tagged as: brooklyn, ethnicfood, foodtrucks, localbusiness, vendyawards, vendys

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Questions that Need Answers: What do I drink with brains?

April 22, 2011

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="373" caption="Conundrum - a great wine for spicy food."][/caption] One of the fun parts of my life with MOTB is that I get to wake up thinking things like “What kind of wine goes with spicy food and brains?” The answer, as it turns out, is a light and fruity white. The […]

Tagged as: caymus, conundrum, drinking, Food, wine, winepairing

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Strange Feasts: Gastronauts Expedition to Southern Spice, Queens

April 21, 2011

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Gastronauts - Southern Spice - 4.5.2011."][/caption] Sometimes, you need to meet people more extremely into something than yourself in order to learn and grow in your passion. I heard about Gastronauts, The Club for Adventurous Eaters by word of mouth over a year ago but didn’t wander over to their website […]

Tagged as: gastronauts, indian, queens, southernspice, supperclub

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Giving and Gratitude – Songs of Love For Japan

April 18, 2011

Hi friends. I took a week off from MOTB – the first in many, many months. What started as just exhaustion evolved into a minor health issue that made it quite clear that I was overtaxing my system and very much in need of a time out. I woke up this morning to a very […]

Tagged as: charity, gratitude, japan, japanearthquake, music, philanthropy, SOLFJ

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Some Days, You Just Feel Like Hiding.

April 7, 2011

And today is one of those days. Nothing’s wrong, I’m just tired. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends by throwing it into a blazing fire. I want to hide in my fluffy bed, but there’s work to do. Coffee just arrived. I’ll be going now. I leave you with this. [caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” […]

Tagged as: photoblog, random

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Cheering for the Little Guy: Foodzie Love

March 31, 2011

I get super excited about the little guys … the underdogs who are starting out small, but do something so well that people fall in love with them and they become big. When it comes to ethnic food here in New York, the majority of the time, it is the little guy who’s doing the […]

Tagged as: entrepreneur, ethnicfood, foodzie, gifts, Recommendations, smallbusiness

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Tasty Tuesday: Snacks from the Food Lovers’ Webernets.

March 29, 2011

MOTB has had a few really exciting weeks – I can’t wait to share recaps from our trips to San Diego and Los Angeles and catch you up on everything else from Austin during SXSW. But what I want to share today are just a few tasty little nuggets from the webernets that I think […]

Tagged as: amycao, blogs, friends, marcmatsumoto, motb, Recommendations, sonyfoodie, tastytuesday

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Brunch is Sexy Again: Maharlika

March 24, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Pacquiao's Punch"][/caption] I read about a cool Filipino pop-up brunch place back in December or January and bookmarked it to explore as soon as I had a weekend morning to myself. Then I found out a friend owned it. My friend Enzo Lim, one of NYC’s most talented bartenders (currently behind […]

Tagged as: brunch, eastvillage, enzolim, ethnicfood, filipino, manhattan, nyc, phillipines, restaurant

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