Entries tagged with 'Adam Roberts'
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The Amateur Gourmet's recipe for Susan Boyled Potatoes makes a dish that is "seemingly plain on the outside but on the inside an embarrassment of riches." They're stuffed with a pancetta-enhanced cheese fondue sauce....
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Looks like Adam "The Amateur Gourmet" Roberts will be the man to watch if you want to follow along with the Food Network's Next Food Network Star show this season. He interviewed each hopeful as he or she got booted and will webcast video spots with the bootees as well as host "viewing parties" for each episode. Details on The Amateur Gourmet....
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Battle of the Hot Male Web Hosts on TVWeek.com pits male web-video stars in eight different categories against one another. Our friend Adam "The Amateur Gourmet" Roberts is up against wine-vlogging maniac Gary Vaynerchuk. To refresh you on how the rules work, we currently have 16 contestants divided into eight pairings of head-to-head battles in this first round. By Friday, the eight winners will move on to the second round. We will add one more contestant in the wild-card slot to make nine in the final round. I'm not going to spoil the results, but AmGour sure could use your help....
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In the latest installment of his FN Dish video series, Adam "Amateur Gourmet" Roberts interviews food bloggers Luisa Weiss (The Wednesday Chef), Amanda Kludt (Eater), and our own Ed Levine (Serious Eats overlord) to find out what motivates their eating and bleating. If you have no interest in starting your own food blog (much madness lies that way, believe me), fast-forward to 2:04 to skip the tutorial....
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Adam Roberts (aka The Amateur Gourmet) just bought six quirky, idiosyncratic plates. What's so special about the plates? Not much, until you read his analysis of each one, from "The Dad Plate" (a plate covered in golfers, perfect for his dad) to "The Ugly Plate" (it's ugly, which makes it suitable for ugly people). I'm quite fond of "The I Don't Really Get It Plate," which is supposed to resemble some kind of deformed face. Now I want to get a new set of random plates for my kitchen. Previously: Paper Plates You Can Display On Your Wall Cutest Plates Ever Topography Soup Plate...
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"It's sort of like watching [BLEEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP]" —Anthony Bourdain on the Food Network As part of The FN Dish, his new online video series for the Food Network, Adam "Amateur Gourmet" Roberts interviews Anthony Bourdain, who goes on an extended rant about the network....
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In which Adam
"Amateur Gourmet" Roberts wakes from a bizarre dream with the urge to make a linzertorte. Enlisting the help of
Nancy Silverton, the result is ... something to sing about.
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Serious Eats contributing editor Adam Roberts, (aka The Amateur Gourmet) has just published his first book, The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost). Although we are obviously biased here at Serious Eats, it's a damn good read. Sweet, smart, and generously spirited, the book is a funny, honest, gustatory coming-of-age saga. Most interesting, it's not just a collection of blog posts. In fact, Roberts takes his blog posts as a jumping-off point and weaves an engaging narrative. Think of it as a cozy, urban fooddunnit. Full disclosure: I wrote a blurb for the back jacket of the book because I genuinely like it. Roberts is doing what is apparently becoming (according to the...
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In a post titled "Going Back," Serious Eats contributing editor Adam Roberts (aka The Amateur Gourmet) starts sounding dangerously professional when reconsidering his protocol for writing about a restaurant on his blog. On the perennial question of whether food bloggers should visit multiple times before dishing—like newspaper and magazine food critics do: What do these three experiences have to do with food blogging? Well, if that third time had been my first time at Chiles & Chocolate in Park Slope, I would have written a savage review. If the second time had been my first time, I would have written it a love letter. But since my first time was my first time, I gave it a half-hearted nod and...
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Serious Eats contributing editor Adam "The Amateur Gourmet" Roberts interviews one of our favorite writers and food mavens, John T. Edge, over on Salon.com, in which he did a nice job picking up on the subtleties in Edge's new book, Southern Belly, the Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South....
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