Last week, Kris and I followed the New Amsterdam Trail, an official tour of the National Park Service created by the Harbor Conservancy in partnership with the Henry Hudson 400 Foundation.  Download the free tour files here, then put the MP3s on your MP3 player and print out the PDF map.  The 90-minute self-guided tour [...]

“Herbivores,” the video that I made with my friend and ITP classmate Elizabeth Fuller last year has made it to the top 10 semifinals of the First Annual Food2 Summer Challenge. But we desperately need your votes to help us win the grand prize, a trip to the NYC food and wine festival. Please vote [...]

Normandy meets the Pondicherry of my post-post-colonial imagination in this improvised dish I made last night. Ingredients 2 tablespoons of butter 1 small onion, chopped 1 shallot, chopped 4 cloves of garlic, minced 2 inch piece of fresh ginger, minced 1 teaspoon of minced jalapeño 1 teaspoon of turmeric 1 pinch of saffron (optional, I [...]

Ingredients 1 pound of hake, filleted and cut into 4 inch chunks (or substitute cod, pollack or similar flaky white fish) 1 onion, thinly sliced 4 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced 1 roasted red bell pepper, sliced 1 handful of green olives 1/2 teaspoon of pimentón (Spanish smoked paprika) 1 cup of dry white wine [...]

Ingredients (serves two) For the chutney: 6 fresh apricots, stone removed and roughly chopped 2 shallots, peeled and chopped 2 teaspoons of ground coriander seed 2-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped 4 tablespoons of sherry vinegar or lemon juice 1/3 cup of brown sugar 2 dashes of Tabasco sauce (or to taste) 2 [...]