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Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts, a food writer who doesn't take himself too seriously.
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Safe Spaces: Restaurants, Bars, and Coffee Shops That Feel Like Home 🏠 🌈 • Pages 100–200 of Fried Green Tomatoes.
Safe Spaces: Restaurants, Bars, and Coffee Shops That Feel Like Home 🏠 🌈
Pages 100–200 of Fried Green Tomatoes.
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February 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Safe Spaces: Restaurants, Bars, and Coffee Shops That Feel Like Home 🏠 🌈 • Pages 100–200 of Fried Green Tomatoes.
Spicy Tamarind Chicken Adobo • This might be the most flavorful dish I've ever cooked.
Spicy Tamarind Chicken Adobo
This might be the most flavorful dish I've ever cooked.
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February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Spicy Tamarind Chicken Adobo • This might be the most flavorful dish I've ever cooked.
Who Has the Power in a Relationship? Look to the Kitchen. • What Pillion Taught Me About Dominance and Submission at the Stove.
Who Has the Power in a Relationship? Look to the Kitchen.
What Pillion Taught Me About Dominance and Submission at the Stove.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Who Has the Power in a Relationship? Look to the Kitchen. • What Pillion Taught Me About Dominance and Submission at the Stove.
Hospitality in Fried Green Tomatoes • My thoughts on the first hundred pages.
Hospitality in Fried Green Tomatoes
My thoughts on the first hundred pages.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Hospitality in Fried Green Tomatoes • My thoughts on the first hundred pages.
20% off this week! • A winter sale for those who love gay nerd cooks and their dogs.
20% off this week!
A winter sale for those who love gay nerd cooks and their dogs.
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February 9, 2026 at 9:35 PM
20% off this week! • A winter sale for those who love gay nerd cooks and their dogs.
How to Eat Whatever You Want Whenever You Want • Cooking as exercise. 🏋️
How to Eat Whatever You Want Whenever You Want
Cooking as exercise. 🏋️
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February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
How to Eat Whatever You Want Whenever You Want • Cooking as exercise. 🏋️
Brown Food FTW: Lamb Sausage and Lentils with Butternut Squash • Rich, cozy, and not a speck of green—plus what we did for Craig’s *redacted* birthday.
Brown Food FTW: Lamb Sausage and Lentils with Butternut Squash
Rich, cozy, and not a speck of green—plus what we did for Craig’s *redacted* birthday.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Brown Food FTW: Lamb Sausage and Lentils with Butternut Squash • Rich, cozy, and not a speck of green—plus what we did for Craig’s *redacted* birthday.
Jenny Rosenstrach Finds Julie & Julia Stressful • Reading Julie Powell’s memoir from the other side of food blogging.
Jenny Rosenstrach Finds Julie & Julia Stressful
Reading Julie Powell’s memoir from the other side of food blogging.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Jenny Rosenstrach Finds Julie & Julia Stressful • Reading Julie Powell’s memoir from the other side of food blogging.
Make the Pasta of Your Dreams with a Kabocha Squash and Aged Parmesan • Plus: A Bakewell Tart with Raspberry Jam, My Not-Quite-Migas Migas, and Zesty Links.
Make the Pasta of Your Dreams with a Kabocha Squash and Aged Parmesan
Plus: A Bakewell Tart with Raspberry Jam, My Not-Quite-Migas Migas, and Zesty Links.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Make the Pasta of Your Dreams with a Kabocha Squash and Aged Parmesan • Plus: A Bakewell Tart with Raspberry Jam, My Not-Quite-Migas Migas, and Zesty Links.
Sex Up Your Vegetables with Red Miso Sauce • Plus: Simone Beck's Orange Frangipane Tart & Erik Piepenburg Picks Our Next Book Club Read. Hint: 🍟 🟢 🍅
Sex Up Your Vegetables with Red Miso Sauce
Plus: Simone Beck's Orange Frangipane Tart & Erik Piepenburg Picks Our Next Book Club Read. Hint: 🍟 🟢 🍅
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January 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Sex Up Your Vegetables with Red Miso Sauce • Plus: Simone Beck's Orange Frangipane Tart & Erik Piepenburg Picks Our Next Book Club Read. Hint: 🍟 🟢 🍅
The Real Julie Powell • Emily Farris remembers her irreverent, generous, and expectation-defying friend.
The Real Julie Powell
Emily Farris remembers her irreverent, generous, and expectation-defying friend.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The Real Julie Powell • Emily Farris remembers her irreverent, generous, and expectation-defying friend.
A Gay Man Makes a Quiche • Plus: Dinner at I Sodi, a Zucchini Lemon Bundt Cake, and a Bright Citrus Salad.
A Gay Man Makes a Quiche
Plus: Dinner at I Sodi, a Zucchini Lemon Bundt Cake, and a Bright Citrus Salad.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A Gay Man Makes a Quiche • Plus: Dinner at I Sodi, a Zucchini Lemon Bundt Cake, and a Bright Citrus Salad.
Alert the media: I’ve changed my roast chicken recipe 🍗 • A whole new technique for the most succulent chicken on the block.
Alert the media: I’ve changed my roast chicken recipe 🍗
A whole new technique for the most succulent chicken on the block.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Alert the media: I’ve changed my roast chicken recipe 🍗 • A whole new technique for the most succulent chicken on the block.
How Julie & Julia Was Really Cooked • A 30-minute conversation with Susan Spungen about food styling the movie (plus a crème brûlée fiasco).
How Julie & Julia Was Really Cooked
A 30-minute conversation with Susan Spungen about food styling the movie (plus a crème brûlée fiasco).
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
How Julie & Julia Was Really Cooked • A 30-minute conversation with Susan Spungen about food styling the movie (plus a crème brûlée fiasco).
Go Gaga for These Giant Gougères ✨ • Something warm and cheesy for these cold winter nights.
Go Gaga for These Giant Gougères ✨
Something warm and cheesy for these cold winter nights.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Go Gaga for These Giant Gougères ✨ • Something warm and cheesy for these cold winter nights.
Book Club: Julie and Julia, Part One • The First 100 Pages and the Inevitable Boeuf Bourguignon.
Book Club: Julie and Julia, Part One
The First 100 Pages and the Inevitable Boeuf Bourguignon.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Book Club: Julie and Julia, Part One • The First 100 Pages and the Inevitable Boeuf Bourguignon.
🥗 The Good Ass Salad • The signature salad from All Time in L.A.
🥗 The Good Ass Salad
The signature salad from All Time in L.A.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
🥗 The Good Ass Salad • The signature salad from All Time in L.A.
This White Chicken Chili Isn't White • Smoked paprika makes it red; cumin, garlic, and lime make it great.
This White Chicken Chili Isn't White
Smoked paprika makes it red; cumin, garlic, and lime make it great.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
This White Chicken Chili Isn't White • Smoked paprika makes it red; cumin, garlic, and lime make it great.
A Book Club for Food Lovers (and Their Favorite Food Writers) • Cook, read, and talk about books with your favorite food people — every month on Substack Live.
A Book Club for Food Lovers (and Their Favorite Food Writers)
Cook, read, and talk about books with your favorite food people — every month on Substack Live.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A Book Club for Food Lovers (and Their Favorite Food Writers) • Cook, read, and talk about books with your favorite food people — every month on Substack Live.
Barbuto's Legendary Kale Salad • Toasted breadcrumbs. Anchovy dressing. This is your new forever kale salad.
Barbuto's Legendary Kale Salad
Toasted breadcrumbs. Anchovy dressing. This is your new forever kale salad.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Barbuto's Legendary Kale Salad • Toasted breadcrumbs. Anchovy dressing. This is your new forever kale salad.
What I Finally Figured Out About Exercise (Ten Tips for the New Year) 🏋️ • Plus: Panettone French Toast, Roasted Carrots and Squash, and Links.
What I Finally Figured Out About Exercise (Ten Tips for the New Year) 🏋️
Plus: Panettone French Toast, Roasted Carrots and Squash, and Links.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
What I Finally Figured Out About Exercise (Ten Tips for the New Year) 🏋️ • Plus: Panettone French Toast, Roasted Carrots and Squash, and Links.
Easy Overnight Focaccia • Prepare to be blown away by this no-knead focaccia recipe that'll dazzle your holiday guests.
Easy Overnight Focaccia
Prepare to be blown away by this no-knead focaccia recipe that'll dazzle your holiday guests.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Easy Overnight Focaccia • Prepare to be blown away by this no-knead focaccia recipe that'll dazzle your holiday guests.
My Top 10 New York City Restaurant Meals of 2025 🗽 • Plus: Stuffed Cabbage, Coconut Macaroon Cake, and Latkes.
My Top 10 New York City Restaurant Meals of 2025 🗽
Plus: Stuffed Cabbage, Coconut Macaroon Cake, and Latkes.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
My Top 10 New York City Restaurant Meals of 2025 🗽 • Plus: Stuffed Cabbage, Coconut Macaroon Cake, and Latkes.
The Best Things That I Cooked in 2025 👨🍳 • Featuring Recipes by Hetty McKinnon, Nicole Rucker, and Gurdeep Loyal.
The Best Things That I Cooked in 2025 👨🍳
Featuring Recipes by Hetty McKinnon, Nicole Rucker, and Gurdeep Loyal.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The Best Things That I Cooked in 2025 👨🍳 • Featuring Recipes by Hetty McKinnon, Nicole Rucker, and Gurdeep Loyal.
The Books That I Read in 2025 📚 • Plus: A Lamb and Squash Tagine, Crispy Gnocchi Revelations, and One Ugly Apple Pie.
The Books That I Read in 2025 📚
Plus: A Lamb and Squash Tagine, Crispy Gnocchi Revelations, and One Ugly Apple Pie.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The Books That I Read in 2025 📚 • Plus: A Lamb and Squash Tagine, Crispy Gnocchi Revelations, and One Ugly Apple Pie.