Email Author Robert Sietsema

Awards

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published June 23, 2010

  "An Open Letter to Josh Ozersky"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2010

  "An Open Letter to Josh Ozersky"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 1, 2010

  "May We Interest You in Some Egg Fetus?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 8, 2010

  "Siam I Am"

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2013 Stories by Robert Sietsema

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  In Praise of Diner Hamburgers

  published May 17, 2013

  The burger at Square Diner arrives disassembled--garnish it as you will. One strange aspect of the Age of Foodism has been the fetishization of the humble hamburger. This has occurred for a variety ... More >>

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  What Can You Do About the Coming Cicada Invasionr Eat them! (With Recipes)

  published May 16, 2013

  The common cicada, as it looks just before you eat it Unless you've been hiding underground for the last few months, you probably already know that New York City is due for a cicada invasion. Indeed... More >>

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  A Little Francophone Corner at Cole's Greenwich Village

  published May 15, 2013

  For 30 years this space hummed along as Café de Bruxelles, occupying a West Village building shaped like a wedge of brie. Back then, the... More >>

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  A Barbecue Run Through Three Boroughs With Texas Monthly's Daniel Vaughn

  published May 14, 2013

  The beef rib at Mighty Quinn's is so big, it must be butchered with a plastic knife. It's not uncommon in barbecue states to do an extreme barbecue run that includes three or four pits in an extende... More >>

• It's Spring in Japan, Time for Sakura Matcha Kit Kat

  published May 14, 2013

  This addictive, green-tinted candy bar is available only during cherry-blossom season, and only in Japan. Japanese are inordinately fond of Kit Kat candy bars, partly because the name is similar to ... More >>

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  Our 10 Best Restaurants in Elmhurst, Queens

  published May 13, 2013

  The southern Mexican food is fine at El Jalapeno, but maybe you'd rather go for the opulent nachos regulares, shaped like a sunflower. To look at the neighborhood today, with its bustling commercial... More >>

• Monday: Our 10 Best Restaurants in Elmhurst, Queens

  published May 10, 2013

  This do-it-yourself cold rice noodle dish from Ayada provides you with pickled mustard greens, sprouts, fried pig skin, dried chiles, and an incendiary soup for pouring and dipping. It's great, but wi... More >>

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  Il Cantuccio Debuts Killer Porchetta Sandwich

  published May 10, 2013

  Il Cantuccio's porchetta sandwich, served on focaccia made in-house Christopher Street's Il Cantuccio bakery is the first American branch of a venerable Florentine institution, an oven specializing ... More >>

• Second Annual Momo Crawl Launches in Jackson Heights

  published May 08, 2013

  Nepalese momo of the type known as kothey, at Lali Guras Momo are Himalayan dumplings, usually round and puckered, but sometimes oblong with a ridge on top. They can be either steamed or fried, and ... More >>

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  Don't Miss the $22 Cypriot Tasting Menu at Kopiaste Taverna

  published May 08, 2013

  Sweep up the stairs and into the spacious dining room to begin your tasting menu of short plates from Cyprus. Astoria newcomer Kopiaste ("Come in and sit down") Taverna presents the Greek cooking of... More >>

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  Mediterranean Diet at Kopiaste Taverna

  published May 8, 2013

  If Turkey were a skull facing west, the island of Cyprus would be tucked well under its chin, a scant 60 miles off both the Turkish and Syrian... More >>

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  Introducing the Chinger

  published May 07, 2013

  Believe it or not, this chinger is vegetarian. The idea was popularized by Momofuku Ssam Bar and by Xi'an Famous Foods--sandwiches featuring lamb or pork in a steamed or baked bao with pickled veget... More >>

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  If You See a Snakehead in Central Park, Eat It

  published May 06, 2013

  Ugly but delectable: the snakehead fish New Yorkers were shocked by recent news that snakeheads - fierce predatory fish that originated in Southeast Asia - had been discovered in Central Park's Harl... More >>

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  Fire on the Roof of Nathan's Famous Coney Island

  published May 04, 2013

  A fire has been reported prior to 11 a.m. this morning at 1310 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, the home of Nathan's Famous, the frankfurter merchant. The building had been undergoing extensive ... More >>

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  Pot-atopia, No! Pota-topia, Nearly Upon Us in Greenwich Village

  published May 03, 2013

  Spuds on Sixth Avenue Just as adjacent West 8th Street is filling up with restaurants instead of shoe stores, many of them quite pricey, Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village latitudes is becoming a che... More >>

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  FiTR's NYC Neighborhood Dining Guide

  published May 03, 2013

  On the Upper East Side, where can you drink a digestif out of this crazy glass, which seems bent on demonstrating a scientific principler Four years ago Fork in the Road inaugurated the Our 10 Best ... More >>

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  Grading the New Sushi Bar at Lobster Place in Chelsea Market

  published May 02, 2013

  Lobster Place's uni (sea urchin) was breezy and briny, and got a grade of A-. As part of the current evolution of Chelsea Market, old tenants are grabbing more space and revamping their premises to ... More >>

• Health Department Smacks Sarita's Mac and Cheese

  published May 01, 2013

  One of the two storefronts of Sarita's, formerly known as S'Mac, with its gate pulled partway down. Now known as Sarita's Mac and Cheese, the restaurant formerly known as S'mac - which has two non-a... More >>

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  If You Play Your Cards Right, You Can Have a Great Meal at Full House

  published May 01, 2013

  Vegetarian Mock Duck - Made of tofu skin tightly rolled up with minced mushrooms inside, the recipe associated with Buddhist monks resembles sliced duck breast more than a little, rightr Full House ... More >>

• Food Can Be Used To Sell Almost Anything

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Christian Louboutin uses fish hooks and $2 cans of sardines to sell shoes that can run as high as $1,400 per pair. What does it meanr We may be in the Age of Foodism's twilight, and one of the sign... More >>

• Shanghai Newcomer Full House Brings Back Soup Dumplings

  published May 1, 2013

  It was back in 1995 that a modest restaurant in Flushing drew the attention of the city's proto-foodies to Shanghai cooking by astonishing them... More >>

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  Is This NYC's Best Steakr And How To Cook It

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Moe Albanese's "porterhouse ribeye" at Albanese Meats & Poultry Peddling up Elizabeth Street from Chinatown this weekend, FiTR spotted the facade of an ancient butcher shop we'd passed many times be... More >>

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  The EV Finally Gets an SF Burrito Mojado

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Taqueria Cancun's burrito mojado is a gigantic carne asado burrito drowning in sauces. In San Francisco's Mission District, where the burrito as we know it was invented, the ultimate form is known a... More >>

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  Luscious Raspberry-Lemon Tarts at Bien Cuit

  published Apr 26, 2013

  Who doesn't love a lemon-custard tartr When the new Bien Cuit debuted on Christopher Street, the main difference between it and its parent was the prevalence of new pastries. While FiTR has found th... More >>

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  Six Miracles of East Village Ungentrification

  published Apr 26, 2013

  Miraculously, lunch counter B & H Dairy remains, from the era when its stretch of Second Avenue was known as the Yiddish Broadway. As a tribute to E.V. Grieve, the East Village's chronicler of closu... More >>