A French Toast To Remember
People have been asking — what do you do with all this bread you're baking? To which, I have my own question: Have you seen my behind lately? But the truth is, I don't eat all, or even a quarter, of...
View ArticleSpiced Oatmeal: Edible Morning Mush
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but I’ve had some pretty decadent meals recently. (And you haven’t even heard about the roasted foie gras with a candied almond crust or the pasta tossed with truffle...
View ArticleInternational Food Stall: A Nasi Lemak Breakfast
It was at Nyonya, a Malaysian restaurant in New York City, that I recently found myself with the legendary and insatiable Gael Greene, trying to explain the wonder that is nasi lemak, a Malay dish of...
View ArticleThe Shop at Andaz Fifth Avenue: Style, With Some Substance
As hotel restaurants go, the shop at Andaz Fifth Avenue tries pretty hard. Determined to cast itself as a New York restaurant, it likes to broadcast just how local it is. Its Web site rattles off a...
View ArticleSusan Feniger’s Street (Los Angeles): Kaya Toast Fail
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I have spent the better part of my life rebelling, pushing the boundaries, and, often, breaking rules. There are some things I consider sacrosanct, however — and...
View ArticleTasty n Sons (Portland, Oregon): Eggs, Anything But Easy
Perhaps you have noticed that it’s been a little quiet on this blog recently. The igvoiding (a word my sister loves) hasn’t been intentional, I assure you. Travels for A Tiger in the Kitchen have...
View ArticleMama’s (San Francisco): Eggs Worth The Odyssey
I have been called “the world’s most easily bored person.” By someone who knows me well, too. (And yes, despite such insensitive name-calling, we remain married.) And so there are very few meals for...
View ArticleRockaway Taco (Rockaway Beach, N.Y.): A Surfside Start
You get an inkling that a place is good if everyone who finds out you’re going somewhere for the weekend says you absolutely have to eat there. Friends, your hairdresser — your hairdresser’s wife. You...
View ArticleGerman Pancakes: Comforting Kummerspeck, or “Grief Bacon”
A few months ago, I came across a term that intrigued me: Kummerspeck. The German word means “grief bacon” (and we all know how much I love bacon). Despite its bacon reference though, the word has a...
View ArticleAnna Blume (Berlin): A Towering Brunch
“Brunch,” I was told my first day in town, “is big in Berlin.” Having just come from New York, a city where weekend brunch is practically a religion, I almost snorted, wondering how different or...
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