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Amanda Hesser

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    May 3, 2012

    Good Food Jobs Hosts a Live Chat with Amanda Hesser: Wanna Be A Food Writer?

    If you're a food writer, or wish to become one, you might be writing a pithy piece about tonkotsu ramen or how to cook artichokes as we speak. But if you're having an existential crisis or just, well, thinking about it, you might want to ask Amanda Hesser (Food52, cookbooks, etc.) a question or two. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Food Review or Calvin and Hobbes?

    In our first food quiz, we pulled a few quotes from various food reviews, mixed them with choice bon mots courtesy one of the great wits of our time, Dorothy Parker, and asked whether you could identify who said what. In today's quiz, we swap Parker out for Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who create ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/9 - 4/13

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You complete the machine, in other words, but the machine does not complete you." Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug. "I have to watch out for bears? Are you serious?" Q & A With Bryant Ng: The S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Read This Now: Amanda Hesser On Becoming A Food Writer

    Okay, step away from Wordpress for a minute. Put down your camera and your fork and read something instead. Specifically Amanda Hesser's "Advice for Future Food Writers," which she posted this morning on Food52, the foodcentric website Hesser runs with Merrill Stubbs. In the piece Hesser, also an aw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    The Piglet: Food 52's Cookbook Madness Starts Now

    If you follow food sites and current cookbooks, you'll doubtless be aware of Food 52, the website run by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. You will perhaps also know about their annual cookbook tournament, The Piglet, in which a number of this year's best cookbooks are pitted against each other in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Cookbook Review: The $5 Takeout Cookbook

    ​We must not eat enough takeout. Or so we told ourselves while flipping through The $5 Takeout Cookbook: Good, Cheap Food For When You Want to Eat In as we don't quite understand the concept of actually wanting to cook those often generic takeout versions of "spicy" braised chicken wings (p. 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    2011 James Beard Media Award Winners

    ​It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the first ever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    2011 IACP Finalists Announced

    ​The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- which comes up first on a Google search, proving maybe that cops can SEO better than writers -- yesterday announced the finalists for both the 2011 Coo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    And Now, A Brief Message From Amanda Hesser

    screenshot of Amanda Hesser's Twitter page​

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Best Cookbook of 2010: The Essential New York Times Cookbook

    J. GarbeeFrench TV "Snacks" From The Essential New York Times Cookbook​Last year, rather than crowning a single cookbook the Best Of title, we simply settled on an entire category that was consistently great -- baking. This year, the most prominent publishing category of the year, media cookbo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/6-12/10

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When you see how they react to the live octopus tentacles at Masan or the pig ear chicharrones at Lazy Ox Canteen, you may have a better idea of how they might handle the idea of babysitting triplets or a sudden move to Icel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Christine Muhlke Heading to Bon Appétit

    Clint Spaulding/PatrickMcMullan.comChristine Muhlke​The new Bon Appétit is taking shape. After many recent changes -- Barbara Fairchild stepping down, the magazine relocating to New York City, Adam Rapoport named editor-in-chief -- Christine Muhlke, most recently the food editor at the New Yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Food52's First Cookbook Wrap Up How To Win $1,000 In Groceries

    Food52.com​If you've been following Food52, you know that Cook's Illustrated won the pork shoulder and sugar cookie battle by a narrow margin. And that the year of reader recipe testing has wrapped up, with the "first crowd-sourced cookbook" off to the printer (readers submitted recipes on a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Some Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Does culinary school matter? [The Atlantic] -- Sci Fi foods we wish actually existed. [io9] -- Escapees from England's wild boar farms create local havoc. [Reuters] -- Simon Majumdar's Big Fat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Evan Kleiman's Good Food Program Tomorrow: Gold & Parsons on the Demise of Gourmet

    Anyone who's been downing Eric Alperin's violet-scented cocktails to cope with living in a post-Gourmet world should get up at least by 11 tomorrow morning and turn on the radio. On KCRW's Good Food program, Evan Kleiman will be discussing the demise of the much-loved magazine with the Weekly's Jona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Just Published: Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking A Recipe For Pumpkin Soup

    PaulaWolfert.comClay Pot Cooking​Next week, Paula Wolfert's new cookbook, Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking, her 10th, officially hits the bookshelves. Wolfert--who lives, cooks, writes and tweets (@Soumak) in Sonoma, California--has received numerous awards and last year, the James Beard Foundat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Food 52: The New Project From Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs

    Food52Merrill Stubbs Testing Your Best​Food 52, a website created by former New York Times food section staff writer Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, a freelance food writer, will be an interactive recipe forum and contest for home cooks when it launches on September 15. The winners will be p ... More >>

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    August 6, 2009

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