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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2004 Stories by Robert Sietsema

• African Journal

  published July 20, 2004

  Melrose Avenue and its extension Webster Avenue form the backbone of the African Bronx. One sweltering afternoon, Brian and I set out to eat in... More >>

• Green Night

  published July 13, 2004

  The borders are lined with begonias, bleeding hearts fling their oddly shaped leaves up from the beds, and elm and ailanthus—the tree that... More >>

• Seafood Aria

  published July 6, 2004

  When I flipped over the cheap fish tacos at Pampano Taqueria recently, I resolved to pay a visit to Pampano, the expensive mother ship berthed... More >>

• Love Celery

  published June 29, 2004

  If I'd reviewed Franny's in its opening weeks, I would have slagged the place. This upscale pizzeria, mounting a pretentious but ultimately... More >>

• Scrape and Eat

  published June 22, 2004

  It's hard to reconcile newspaper reports that the local Korean population is shrinking with the skyrocketing number of Korean restaurants in... More >>

• Democracy Now

  published June 15, 2004

  Across America, democracy usually boils down to "Which of these rich white men am I going to vote for?" But what if the concept were applied to a... More >>

• Find Happiness

  published June 8, 2004

  Symbolized on the menu by a jolly dancing elephant sporting a baseball cap and cradling a ball in its upraised trunk, khushie means... More >>

• Where to Go for Dad's Day

  published June 1, 2004

  As we near Father's Day, the question on your lips should be W.W.D.W.: What Would Dad Want? Nothing too culinarily challenging, so you should... More >>

• 100 Best Italian Restaurants

  published June 1, 2004

  New York has been working on the world's greatest collection of Italian restaurants for more than a century. In 1900 immigrants from... More >>

• Hello, Monkey Town

  published June 1, 2004

  I'd first heard about Monkey Town when a fellow Texan called to report that one of our favorite local bands, Black Dice, was gigging there. "Where... More >>

• Unhooked

  published May 25, 2004

  As the N train eased into the Ditmars Boulevard station, I glanced down and gasped. My favorite Greek fish place—the nautically themed Scouna... More >>

• Goat Water

  published May 18, 2004

  When we finally wrapped our mouths around ducana, it proved worth the wait. Reminiscent of Mexican tamales and Puerto Rican pasteles, ducana are... More >>

• Nuttin' Like Mutton

  published May 11, 2004

  Blame the Dutch, who came to western Kentucky in the 1830s and commenced raising sheep among the rolling green hills. They originated the practice... More >>

• Perfect Picnics

  published May 4, 2004

  Picture this: a brilliant day, with a few fleecy clouds scooting across a blue sky. You've got a few hours to blow, and a profound need to... More >>

• Micro-Size Me

  published May 4, 2004

  Downtown, two opposing trends in the restaurant biz are duking it out. One is the tendency to super-size and overdecorate new establishments,... More >>

• Get Your Freek On

  published April 27, 2004

  Even for the Egyptian men lounging around in their shirtsleeves, knocking back glasses of anise tea and taking an occasional pull on the... More >>

• No Lambi Today

  published April 20, 2004

  Located on a rocky cliff on Haiti's northern coast, the Citadelle was built by the paranoiac Henri Christophe, who called himself King Henry I and... More >>

• Meat Bombs

  published April 13, 2004

  Coney Island Avenue is Brooklyn's most brilliant and diverse food thoroughfare, and motoring down it in a car makes you feel like Magellan on a... More >>

• G-Spot

  published April 6, 2004

  OK, let's get the name-dropping out of the way: Bono, Jamie Oliver, Mario Batali, Alice Waters, the Smiths, Simon Hopkinson, Trent Reznor. All... More >>

• Khan Edison

  published March 30, 2004

  "Hey, this doesn't taste like pizza dough," one of my guests happily intoned, chomping down on her ceyloni naan ($2.75), a crunchy and smooshy... More >>

• Nice Rice

  published March 23, 2004

  Guinea is one of the world's great rice-loving nations, and most meals at Fatima begin with a huge serving of it. The grain isn't tossed onto the... More >>

• Woman in White

  published March 16, 2004

  The first block of Bleecker is becoming civilized. For decades it was home to the Yippie Party, and summer evenings you could get a contact high... More >>

• Prime-Time Soap

  published March 9, 2004

  It might be the name of a prime-time soap, set in an organic supermarket and featuring a cast of glib twentysomethings: Young Tofu. Instead, it... More >>

• I'm a Monkey

  published March 2, 2004

  Casa Mono ("Monkey House") is one sweet moneymaking machine. It launched in a cramped corner space on Irving Place that had brought slow death to... More >>

• Two Rivers

  published February 24, 2004

  Those who knew Newark's Ironbound 10 years ago would be astonished to see it now. Amid a general exodus of the Portuguese population, this... More >>