Next stop – Soupville!

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So here’s my latest entry. Sorry it’s been a while since the last one. I actually was working last week in California on one of the best TV shows ever (oh I meant worst). But this site’s about food and not about me whining about working in bad TV. I guess the point being, work kind of gets in the way of maintaining a blog. My apologies. But just know that all was not lost to “work”. I did shoot some family cooking in Cali which I will post in the near future. In the meantime, check out this chicken soup that I made last week. It’s a nice hot soup just in time for spring when things are warming up and all you want to eat is salad and stuff off the grill. Oops! Okay, maybe my timing sucks, but this chicken soup does not. Check it out right here.

Slurp!

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Dumpling House

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This past Saturday after Cantonese class, Waine and I made our ritual pilgrimage for some food. We’d had pho the week before and Northern style Chinese hand pulled noodles the week before that, so I wasn’t really feeling the noodles. One word: dumplings. So we headed to the logical stop a couple blocks from our class, the aptly named Dumpling House a well known haunt of Chinatown locals and hipsters alike. It was by no means the first time we’d been to this place but I thought I would take the opportunity to make it the first stop on the newly inaugurated Dumpling Review Page. Check out the full review.

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From Gefilte Fish to Gaspé Nova …

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What do you get when an engineer trades in his slide rule for a slicing knife? A fourth-generation fish monger, of course!

Russ and Daughters

OK, maybe that wasn’t SO obvious, but once you take a bite of the succulent sturgeon or luscious lox at our friend Josh’s appetizing store on the Lower East Side, you’ll forget all about my senseless riddles and annoying aliteration. For the full Russ and Daughters spiel (look, I used Yiddish!) and to see what Martha Stewart’s raving about, read (and watch) on …                                     -Bret

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Ryan’s Mapo Tofu

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Alright, check out my cousin’s take on a Chinese classic, “mapo tofu“. You’ll notice the video that he shot and edited in a day (far quicker than anything I’ve ever done) is by far the most visually sophisticated and cinematic of all the the videos yet posted on this site. It’s all about visual storytelling. I sense the influence of P. T. Anderson. That’s because he’s a genius and an incredibly talented filmmaker and animator. Did I mention we’re related by blood? Bret, you might want to pay attention to how he peels the skin off the Italian sausages. He doesn’t even use his hands. There’s no “pushing it” at all. Intrigued? Check out the full video and recipe.

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Burger Time

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Ever the martyrs, JG and I have taken it upon ourselves to research for all of you some of the best burgers in NYC. Welcome to the first installment of the of the Burger Reviews. We’re using the TONY Top Ten List of burgers as our guide, but we’re not bound to it. If you all have any suggestions send them our way. Better yet, submit your own burger review. Check out the full review of our first three burgers. Come on. Take a bite.

My Back Forty Burger

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