• Monday, January 05th, 2009
If you’ve been watching Food Network lately – sometimes it feels more like enduring – you’ve probably seen ads for the Ted Allen helmed new competition Chopped. The show features top chefs – ha, get it? – competing each week to produce food based on ingredients provided. Allen left his position on Bravo’s Top Chef in order to take part in the endeavor, and looking at the list of recently released competitors there’s a damn good chance Chopped may be good. more…
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Is it really time for Anthony Bourdain to return to television? Thank god, because most of the celeb chefs making the rounds are just people that have no place telling other people what to cook. Bourdain doesn’t do that in No Reservations, instead he just travels and enjoys the food of the land. As it should be. 
Walking into a restaurant called Tokyo Seoul you may expect to find contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. In a way you find just that, depending on how you choose to enjoy your experience at the family run restaurant on the East side of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Kim met in Seoul, South Korea and just knew that the food they found there was fantastic. So fantastic that, back in Syracuse the school teacher and her husband opened up their very own restaurant. 
I don’t do the resolution thing. I’ve found in the past that they are simply a way for people to make themselves look good to friends and family, but in the end it’s all empty promises. If you’re going to make a commitment you should stick to it. And who says you can only resolve to start or change something on January 1st. that’s why rather than make some cooking resolutions, I’m just going to try and make adjustments. I’ll try to make sushi at some point at home, a task I’ve only done on a few occasions to the horror of my eyes. 
If you like to read words in book form then you are probably somewhat familiar with the Sedaris name. David Sedaris is a fantastic author of witty and humorous stories on life, and I’ll pick up Me Talk Pretty One Day on numerous occasions throughout the year. His far more attractive sister Amy is a renowned television personality. OK, renowned if you enjoy smart humor and Stephen Colbert. Both things you should enjoy. 
It’s almost been a year since our freezing foray into the 
I love Mexican food. Not the Ortega boxed taco kits, although those are OK in a pinch. I’m talking some real tasty authentic Mexican. Where you get generous portions of rice and beans to accompany your tasty burrito, or heck how about some tostadas? You rarely find the flat tasty treat at the average Mexican joint, and for such a simple dish that’s a travesty. Those of us here in Syracuse have limited choice in Mexican fare. 
The problem with making pizza at home is you have to deal with preparing the dough, which is a torturous process. Then you have to decide on what kind of pizza to make. If we’re honest with ourselves we try too hard when making pizza at home, when what we really want is a slice of pepperoni pie. So that’s why there’s takeout and delivery. 