Cara chatted with the folks over at Prospect Heights Patch. Check out some of her favorite neighborhood spots, and some fun book chatter here.
Archive for June 2011
This week’s Cook the Books column on Serious Eats is featuring recipe from In the Small Kitchen! Get a sneak peak of our gooey dips and things, and enter for a chance to win a copy!
Not long after January 2011 reared its cold wintry head, the two of us made a decision: when our book came out on sunny May 24th, we were going on a book tour. Book tours for first-time authors are largely unheard of. But we were determined. We spent long hours catering, saving up money for our trip. We reached out to friends in faraway states. And we bugged our dear PR gal, Megan, who managed to stay in good spirits despite all of that bugging, to keep contacting book stores to host us. In late April, we finally settled…
Arugula Caprese • Tomato & Dinner Roll Panzanella • Pesto Potato Salad • Bistro Salad
Ahh, summer! Nary a warm breeze wafted o’er my sunkissed cheeks before I thought: man, I could really use a beer right now. In the colder months, I like to sip red wine with my dinner, or treat myself to an olive-y martini. But something about the impending heat (and boy, are New York Summers brutal) puts me in the mood for a cold, crisp beer.
With the hundreds of breweries turning out seasonal ales-local and foreign, micro and macro, cheap and expensive, other adjectives only the beer geeks know-how’s a girl to choose her signature summer ale? Fear…
Photo By: Tim Atkinson
We started our Dude Food series this spring in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions for and by dudes. As you can image, having “big girls” in our name has been a bit of a deterrent for the male population. We like to think of this section as the man cave below the BGSK kitchen. If you have ideas, become a dude food contributor!
You might know Ed Casabian as “The NYC Nomad.” A year ago (officially!), Ed moved out of the apartment…
Commuters, beware! We’re in Metro NY today. The interview with us features our ideas for getting reticent peers into the kitchen and snippets into the premonitions we should have had about our cooking futures. Read the piece online here.
If you’re in Boston, make sure you hold onto yesterday’s paper! An interview with us by Glenn Yoder appeared in the food section. Read about our origins, our favorite recipe for beginners, and what topic draws the most interest. View the full piece online here.
For more tips on great portable dishes, check out our guide to Becoming a Potluck All-Star!
We’ve seen quite a few planes, trains, and automobiles lately, with our book “tour” and all. These excursions have brought back to mind the need for super portable dishes-the kind we brown bag for lunch in the Bolt Bus cabin, or, better yet, bring to an actual patch of green when we picnic with friends. So I thought I’d share with you one of my favorite summer picnic go-to’s: couscous salad.
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Any of you who have lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts will remember Toscanini’s. When I was in college, Toscanini’s was my place. It provided my latte before morning class and my coffee and cookie on the way to the library. Best of all-but a little more rarely-it was the doler-outer of my “micro sundaes.”
Anyone else nostalgic for those micro sundaes? Here’s the deal with micro sundaes: for $3 (a regular small cup or cone was something like $3.50, so $3 is a deal), you got a pixie cup-sized sundae, complete with a half-sized scoop of Toscanini’s super rich ice…
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