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• 05.26.09
  IN CELEBRATION OF THE ‘EVERY DAY CAKE’ Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: A hastily baked raspberry buttermilk cake. Looks aren't everything. 5/26/2009 Paging through the most recent Gourmet, this raspberry buttermilk cake caught my eye. As Deb, the prodigious poster behind the Smitten Kitchen blog remarks, “I have a serious soft spot for everyday cakes.” While I hadn’t really contemplated desserts in these terms before, I am ready to embrace the concept of the everyday cake and this is a good example. With minimal preparation, using ingredients easily kept on hand, you can’t go wrong with this recipe for a simple summer dessert. Besides, I’m always looking for reasons to demonstrate that my recent purchase ...
• 05.26.09
  “FOURTH WAVE” COFFEE AT THE MALL? Uncategorized | (0)

  LBC FILE PHOTO 5/23/2009 While at Williams-Sonoma today, looking at things I want but can't afford, I was surprised to see that they just started offering a selection of whole-bean roasted coffee from the well regarded Vancouver-based 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters. This is good news for Stamford, which is still without a real independent coffee shop and with limited access to high-quality roasted coffee. However, based on the packaging, neither I nor the store staff could determine when it was roasted. High-end roasters like Stumptown and Intelligentsia are making inroads in the New York market, where Counter Culture has been available for some time, ...
• 05.26.09
  ICH BIN EIN FETTE SAU Uncategorized | (0)

  FETTE SAU: 354 METROPOLITAN AVE., WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 5/23/2009 At Fette Sau [German for fat pig], after you jockey for some precious real estate at one of the long picnic tables in the dining room or on the patio out front, you head for the long line at the counter. Here you order your barbecue by type and by the pound. It is a beautiful thing, Pulled pork. Beef brisket. Ribs. Boston butt. Pork belly. Pork sausage. Pork cheeks. Yes, my friends, Berkshire pork cheeks! The glorious cue, tender and smoked-to-perfection is piled high on a butcher paper covered aluminum tray next to your Guss' half-sour pickles, ...
• 05.26.09
  MARY ANN’S: NEW MEXICAN RESTAURANT OPENS TODAY Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: The beef enchilada ranchera plate at Mary Ann’s Mexican restaurant in Stamford. MARY ANN’S: 184 SUMMER ST., STAMFORD 5/22/2009 After being called out as a "West Coast Snob" on the blog yesterday regarding my natural skepticism of the new Mary Ann's Mexican restaurant on Summer St., I felt obligated to put aside my inherent bias and sample an entree. So in a fit of overcompensation, I donned my Top-Siders and a button-down Oxford and before heading out to West Beach for the afternoon, I stopped by Mary Ann’s with a friend. Mary Ann's has a bunch of other locations in Manhattan and one in ...
• 05.26.09
  SUMMER STREET UPDATE Uncategorized | (0)

  5/21/2009 1. According to Barcelona Wine Bar's twitter feed, they are set to open next Thursday. I walked by today and didn't see much activity, but I understand they are more or less ready to go. 2. Mary Ann's Mexican restaurant is open, though I'm still a little skeptical, but that is probably just West-Coast bias. 3. I did make it to Bufalo Wild Wings. To paraphrase reporter Jeff Morganteen's assessment: if you have "wings" in your name, they better be the best in town. They are not. The biggest disappointment, however, is the poor beer selection, with Bass ale being the most exotic ...
• 05.19.09
  RUTH REICHL TO SPEAK IN DARIEN Uncategorized | (0)

  5/17/2009 Check out Stamford Talk for a post about Ruth Reichl, the editor of Gourmet and former chief restaurant critic for the New York Times, speaking at an annual Darien Community Association event on Thursday. I caught her lecture at the Columbia J-School earlier this year and she had some interesting things to say about her experiences in both the worlds of food and journalism. ACCORDING TO HER TWITTER FEED: [@ruthreichl], she has no idea who is going to replace the Times' Frank Bruni, who annoucned that he will be stepping down last week, adding nothing to the rampant and uninformed speculation on ...
• 05.19.09
  PIZZA WARS: STAMFORD PIZZA TOUR DROPS BOMB ON CULT OF COLONY Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: A sausage and cherry pepper pie at Colony Grill. 5/17/2009 The guys at the Stamford Pizza Tour blog seem to take pizza pretty seriously, so I was shocked [shocked, I tell you!] to find out that after they reviewed twenty-odd pizzerias in Stamford, Colony Grill was not among those chosen. I assumed this transgression was intentional, but couldn't figure out why. The Pizza Tour guys admit to being berated by The Colony's "rabid, obnoxious fans," so it's not like they didn't know the place existed. My best guess was that after reviewing the crispy, wafer-thin, hot-oil dripping Colony pie, the contest would ...
• 05.19.09
  FOOD HEAVIES SPEAK OUT IN HARTFORD Uncategorized | (0)

  5/16/2009 As previously noted on the LBC, I really wish I could have attended a food forum in Hartford this week featuring none other than foodie goddess Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain [insert leather jacket/cocaine reference here] and Duff Goldman, of Ace of Cakes fame. Unfortunately, the event was sold out and they were even selling tickets to a simulcast to meet demand [no thank you]. GOOD NEWS: Michelle Mettler at Eat Me Daily has some first-hand coverage on their blog: here. She writes, "Bourdain made a point to say that he eats for pleasure, that as a chef he's in the business of pleasure ...
• 05.19.09
  HOULIHAN’S CLOSES Uncategorized | (0)

  5/15/2009 The Advocate's Mike Juliano is reporting on the closure of Houlihan's on Broad St. The space below Target, which took what felt like years to fill and then to build out, will once again be empty after just six-months in business. I walk by frequently and hardly ever see any one inside, so this doesn't really surprise me. –CP
• 05.19.09
  DUDE, CHECK THIS OUT: EPICURIOUS iPHONE APP Uncategorized | (0)

  5/10/2009 Epicurious.com recently launched a new iPhone app a couple of weeks ago allowing users to search recipes, download shopping lists, read reviews, etc. READ ABOUT IT: HERE Access to 25,000 searchable recipes right on my phone will probably cut down on the long-distance calls I make to my mom from the supermarket trying to figure out what goes in whatever I'm trying to make that night. If tens of thousands of recipes sounds a little overwhelming, here's a start: this cake is totally awesome. –CP POST SCRIPT: This tip actually comes from my mom, who is either trying to tell me to stop calling her ...

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