i always use jeffrey steingarten's recipe. apparenlty he cooks a potato gratin every week so i assume he knows what he’s doing

Molly – I assume by your screen name you are Mormon, so I have a question for you..In Jeffrey Steingarten's book he talks on and on about how good Mormons are at baking amazing fruitcakes around the holiday season. Is there...

Decent pizza is ubiquitous but great pizza is really rare. Yes, great ingredients matter a lot, as an earlier poster mentioned, but I think the key, as Jeffrey Steingarten has written about, is a super hot oven, much hotter than...

." And from Jeffrey Steingarten, (author of The Man Who Ate Everything). "Lutefisk is not food, it is a weapon of mass destruction. It is currently the only exception for the man who ate everything. Otherwise, I am fairly liberal,...

Sorry, but is Mike Steingarten the same person as Jeffrey Steingarten? I enjoy the latter’s writing, although I don’t really consider him a cultural icon like, say, Calvin Trillin. But I’ve never heard of the...

If you haven’t read it, Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything has a lovely essay on “subsistence cuisine.” He tried to follow the USDA cheap program and found it awful, but there a couple of great...

I have long carried around a distinct memory that somewhere in The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten says that you will learn to like anything if you try it 13 times. I can’t find it, but the introduction is a...

JC had made many references to McD fries before they started using veg oil, as did Jeffrey Steingarten, as did many others. I had never heard any reference to her saying that BK or In and Out fries were good, and I followed her...

"NO cranberry anything!" ~~~~~~ Jeffrey Steingarten would have been in hog [or turkey?] heaven at that dinner! he always rants on ICA about how he hates cranberries, and doesn’t understand why people insist on serving them...

Trader Joes. Emphasize the rough approximation. Jeffrey Steingarten, in his book, “It Must Have Been Something I Ate”, has a nice description of trying to find the secret of the Antico Forno pizza bianca that will...

Right – Bern’s and Luger’s were supposedly the only 2 restaurants that dry-aged Prime properly (meaning at least 5 weeks in the right environment) back when Steingarten wrote the article, High Steaks, in Vogue...

You should read “The Man Who Ate Everything” by Jeffrey Steingarten (I think) There’s a hilarious introduction about “curing” himself of food dislikes, especially kim-chee. I would recommend it.

My idea of a great “throw down:” The contestants of TNFNS vs. those of season 3 of TC, the food to be judged by Tom Colichio (sp?), Ted Allen, as well as Jeffrey Steingarten from Iron Chef America, Anthony Bourdain...

behind the scenes. In NYC, Frank Bruni of the Times tried to be a waiter in a big Boston restaurant. Bill Buford in his New Yorker pieces and Heat (the book). Even Jeffrey Steingarten took a serving course. In all cases, it...

wrapped up. they kept harping on the fact that morou’s food didn’t have enough “pea-ness,” and jeffrey was very pleased at how well bobby made the secret ingredient stand out. [btw, i don’t know if...