Email AuthorTejal Rao
Featured Entry
People's Pops Has a Lovely New Cookbook
May 26, 2012 in Fork in the Road
People's Pops launched in 2008 when Nathalie Jordi, David Carrell, and Joel Horowitz set up a booth at the New Amsterdam Market, where they decided to sell ice pops made...
Featured Entry
Are Food Critics Worthless?
May 25, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Gawker really hates people who care about food! First food threatened music and Hamilton Nolan slammed the whole food-is-the-new-rock thing (Nolan was more articulate about this on WNYC recently, go...
Smithsonian's June Issue Is All About Food
May 24, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Top Chef Masters Will Have Women Chefs, Great Judges
May 24, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Featured Entry
A Banquet of Human Genitals, Expensive but Legal
May 24, 2012 in Fork in the Road
anothertokyoCalorieLab reports that the illustrator Mao Sugiyama sold tickets to a dinner where he dressed as a chef to braise and serve his own penis and testicles. Police received many...
Featured Entry
Smrgs Chef Looking to Buy 150 New Chickens
May 24, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Morten Sohlberg, the Norwegian chef-owner of Smrgs Chef already sources pasture-raised meat and vegetables from his restaurant group's 150-acre farm in the Catskills. But lately, he's found that Blenheim Farm...
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan
May 24, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Featured Entry
$3 Draft Beers at Central Park's Public Fare
May 24, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Home to Shakespeare in the Park, Central Park's Delacorte Theater also hosts a seasonal outdoor cafe run by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group: Public Fare. The outdoor cafe is...
Featured Entry
Kool-Aid Silkscreens and Bee-Emulsion Photography
May 23, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Matthew Brandt courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery'Frosting 3', 2012 from the series Taste Tests in Color Artist Matthew Brandt will have his first solo show in New York starting tomorrow. Look for...
Featured Entry
La Vara: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
May 23, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Liz BarclayThe suckling pig at La VaraThis week's review is of La Vara, the new Spanish restaurant in Cobble Hill from chefs Alex Raij and Eder Montero, a husband-and-wife duo...
Featured Entry
Mini Wine Growlers Coming Soon to Brooklyn Winery
May 22, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Cupid in a Wine Glass, Abraham WoodsideBrooklyn Winery, the Williamsburg winery and wine bar, will introduce a growler program on June 7. The growlers will be 750mL, so if you're...
Featured Entry
Notes on Drinking Cobra Blood
May 22, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Melanie Wood, CNNgoJournalist Lydia Tomkiw visits a night market in northern Jakarta and reports for CNNgo on the handful of cobra blood vendors who bleed the snakes for locals and...
Featured Entry
Hot Dog Superhero Saves the Day
May 22, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Yum Yum's Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer are highly talented designers who create beautiful animated shorts and fun characters. Here's their latest piece, featuring some poor dude who can't get...
The Morningside Park Farmer's Market Is Back
May 22, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Featured Entry
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Impossible Turkey Cocktail
May 21, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Carl Van Vechten For weary food writers already thinking about how to tackle their annual Thanksgiving stories, Fitzgerald's list of 13 ridiculous ways to use leftover turkey will be...
Nerds, Get Excited for New Food Science Journal
May 21, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Featured Entry
5 Fake Updates from GoogaMooga
May 19, 2012 in Fork in the Road
It's day 1 of GoogaMooga, Brooklyn's big food-meets-music fest this weekend. I am not there, though our correspondent Lauren Bloomberg is in the field and I look forward to hearing...
Featured Entry
Scenes from the Red Hook Ball Fields
May 19, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Impatient kid, waiting for his pupusas There are a lot of food events going on this weekend, but I picked up a quick breakfast around the Red Hook Ball Fields. Every...
Flatiron Bake Sale to Raise Funds for Cancer Research
May 18, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Featured Entry
A New Craft Brewery for New York?
May 18, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Yesterday, we launched an exciting new beer column here on Fork in the Road. And just a few minutes after I saw a comment that "New York doesn't have craft...
No More (Weekend Late-Night) Boozing on the LIRR
May 18, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Marcus Samuelsson Tells Ex-Convicts 'Texture Is Very Key'
May 18, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Featured Entry
The Fight for Foie Gras in California
May 17, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Amol MhatreCalifornia's statewide foie gras ban will kick in on July 1. And as tends to be the case with foie, it's a highly contentious issue. A few days ago,...
Featured Entry
Let's Bring Back Fruit and Vegetable Carving
May 17, 2012 in Fork in the Road
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo reproduced by Phil Hansen on a bananaRemember when an intricately carved watermelon could indicate mastery and craftsmanship in the kitchen? Garde manger, as it's...
Featured Entry
Fruits Grow Embossed With Juice Company's Logo
May 17, 2012 in Fork in the Road
Fruits are kind of amazing, and some will grow regardless of the space constraints put on them. Building on the old tradition of growing pears inside a glass bottle, Brazilian...
