Author Archives: Kristen Putch
Review: Farm to Fork by Emeril Lagasse
As sustainability continues to be a hot topic, chefs are embracing it in their foods. Famed chef, Emeril Lagasse, has been a proponent for using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants for years, and is now bringing that same commitment to your kitchen.
His cookbook, Farm to Fork (HarperCollins, 2010) is broken down, not by courses, [...]
UrbanSpoon: The Foodie’s Dream App
One of the toughest parts of moving somewhere new is learning the good places to stuff your face.
Back in September, I moved to York, Pa. for a new job opportunity. And while I was introduced to a few places by some friendly faces, I hadn’t really even begun to scratch the surface of what is [...]
Cookbook Review: The Frugal Foodie Cookbook
If there is one thing I am a big fan of, it’s eats on the cheap. And while I can usually take any dish and make it a little bit more budget friendly, Alanna Kaufman and Alex Small have taken the guesswork of it for me. Their book, The Frugal Foodie Cookbook (Adams Media, 2010), [...]
Inspiration From a Unique Location
I spent my holiday weekend at my cabin in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York, which gave me some time to relax and unwind. I found in an old cookbook produced by our local Fish and Game Club several years ago. It is stuffed with some interesting recipes written by some of our locals.
The [...]
Review: Sushi To-Go (No Chopsticks Required!)
Sushi Popper.
It gets your attention, right? Well, it got mine.
The sushi popper is sushi… that pops! And it is a new way of eating when you’re on the run. Packaged in a tube, sushi, made fresh when ordered, is sliced, frozen and shipped to you for healthier eating on the go. Set up like the ever popular ice-cream push-pops, [...]
Food Photos
Sometimes looking at food is better than reading about it… so please enjoy some wonderfully delicious looking photos of food by Emily Gilbert of E.Gilbert Photography. Check out more of her photos here.
Happy Eating.
The Melting Pot
There are certain dishes that seem to have been lost in time, destined to stay in a specific decade, never to be resurrected. One my favorites is fondue. A dish that screams 1974, in an olive-green pot over an open flame. However, fondue is actually really good, and if you disguise it by calling it [...]
Truly Serendipitous
This is the final installment of the Amateur Foodie Travels… for now at least. I figured I would save this one for last, not because it was a hole-in-the-wall find… quite the opposite in fact. In all the time I’ve spent in NYC, it wasn’t until my most recent trip that I finally ate at [...]
The Convert
Yes, this IS the place from the Will Smith movie Hitch! Rice to Riches, located at 37 Spring Street, between Mott and Mulberry streets in lower Manhattan, is a landmark which specializes in Rice Pudding.
Every time I’m in NYC, someone always suggests that we go to Rice to Riches, to which I reply with a big, [...]