Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Beef and Root Vegetable Stew with Peanut Butter
There are 300 recipes in Real Stew by Clifford A. Wright, which, in Clifford’s usual thorough way, is a wonderfully diverse international collection with an emphasis on the many cuisines around the Mediterranean. [more]
Thursday, October 24, 2002
Spaghetti
As someone who can write pages about food that I am only casually interested in, imagine how much I could go on about spaghetti, a food I sometimes think is as vital to my body as air and water. Some nights I go to bed thinking about sex, sometimes about work, and sometimes about spaghetti. [more]
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Onion Cookies
The subject of onion cookies was brought up by my new boss, Maurice Tunick, WOR’s program director. He remembers his mother’s, although he never ate them. He was a picky eater then. Now he regrets his abstemious youth and wants to make up for lost time. [more]
Friday, October 18, 2002
Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes
This was written 16 years ago, when I had a column in the Daily News Sunday Magazine called “Sundays in the Kitchen with Arthur.” Going through boxes and boxes of files and papers (you’ve heard, I’ve sold my house in Connecticut and have to move everything out), I read this and thought that it really wasn’t very dated. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes are still one of America’s favorite comfort foods. Always were, always will be. You won’t find it in white tablecloth restaurants, as you did back then – a trend that didn’t last very long -- but pretty much what I said back then still holds true. [more]
Monday, October 14, 2002
Parmesan and Black Olive Biscuits
Daniel Young is among my nearest and dearest. I met him 17 years ago when I was the food editor and restaurant critic of the Daily News and he was a copy boy at Money magazine. My editor at the News wanted me to review coffee shops and diners. I said my stomach (and ego) could not take doing that again. I’d seen Paree. There was no way I was going back to the farm league. Instead, through our then business editor, Steve Yahn, I found Danny to do the dirty work. He then began writing the column called “Under $10,” which later became “Under $15.” [more]
Monday, October 7, 2002
Ratner's Vegetable Cutlets
I was not a fan of Ratner’s, the famous Lower East Side dairy restaurant. You may have read my opinion in last Sunday’s Newsday (Oct. 6), in the Currents section. My best line, if I say so myself was this: “The Associated Press claimed Ratner’s closed ‘for financial reasons.’ I’ll give you financial reasons: They charged $12 for lox and eggs, plus a usurious $1 extra for the onions. The nerve! Or the noive, as they used to say it on Delancey Street when, for good reason, the dish was called lox, eggs AND onions. [more]
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Tiramisù Cheesecake
This is the cheesecake recipe from the Medaglia D’Oro booklet that I gave out to all callers on today’s program.
Aside from being intrigued and tempted by the coffee-rum-chocolate flavoring, my first reaction upon reading this recipe was that the basic cheesecake formula is standard with the substitution of mascarpone for the more usual sour cream. Mascarpone is, to oversimplify, Italian cream cheese. But since it has a tart flavor and cream texture, I could see where it might be a stand-in for sour cream. [more]
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
"Process This!" Pesto
It was brought to my attention (by Mike of Huntington, if I remember correctly) at WOR’s Classic Taste on Monday that I didn’t have a pesto recipe on this website. As if it was meant to be, the very next day I picked up Jean Anderson’s Process This! and the book opened to her pesto recipe. Her recipe uses pretty much the same proportions that I do, but see “Arthur’s Two Cents” at the end of the recipe for my comments. [more]
