Besha Rodell

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Amateur Night: Why Chefs Hate (And Love) Valentine's Day

Amateur night. It's the term used in the restaurant business for New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, and often Friday and Saturday nights. They're the nights when people come out who don't usually eat out. Waiters, especially snarky jaded waiters, as well as many chefs, hate these nights because they expect......
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Live Tweeting TV Is Ruining Twitter and Television

Remember the good old days, when you'd watch TV, then think about it a bit, then perhaps discuss it the next day at work around the water cooler? Now that's not nearly enough. While watching TV, you must read everyone's live tweets about the show, then watch the after-show about......
Beets with molasses yogurt and ancient grain granola at The Parish.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

The Undercover Vegetarian: The Parish

You might assume that The Parish, subject of this week's restaurant review, is a temple to meaty fatty things, being a gastropub and all. And you wouldn't be far off -- there are plenty of chicken livers and fried fish items and things made out of pig parts on this......
The bar at The Parish; Credit: Anne Fishbein

This Week's Restaurant Review, The Condensed Version: The Parish

This week's review considers The Parish, Casey Lane's downtown gastropub which opened last summer. You can read the full review here, or see below for the cheat sheet. Food: Lane sites the great gastropubs of the world as his inspiration: St. John in London, The Spotted Pig in New York......