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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2008 Stories by Robert Sietsema

• Pix from the Roosevelt Food Court

  published Dec 09, 2008

   In conjunction with my review of the newly opened Roosevelt Food Court in Flushing, here are some porny pictures of the food served there. Af stall B5, find "scallion pie with beef," a f... More >>

• Scenes From the Roosevelt Food Court

  published December 10, 2008

  Flushing food courts are clearly here to stay. As fast as the landlords or Department of Health and Mental Hygiene can close them, others... More >>

• Strange Snacks of the World -- Fish Cheese

  published Dec 09, 2008

  Cheese has become wildly popular in parts of Asia over the last few years. Japan, in particular, has been smitten with cheese lust. The only problem is -- no cows. How to make cheese without any cow... More >>

• Roastarama!

  published Dec 08, 2008

  The roaster itself is strangely compact at Roasting Plant Coffee When I was in California's Silicon Valley not too long ago, I couldn't help but notice that many of the coffee bars had their own ro... More >>

• What Wine Goes With Pizzar

  published Dec 08, 2008

  The special artichoke pie at Motorino, shown with a splendid bottle of Gragnano   I was sitting in an internationally famous pizza parlor recently, one in which you're permitted to bring your ... More >>

• The Early Word -- Macao Trading Company

  published Dec 05, 2008

    Located on a dark stretch of Church Street west of Chinatown, Macao Trading Company is unheralded by any sign, except for a door screened over by an usual metal grate, and a red lamp that app... More >>

• Flushing Kebabs Crawl Indoors

  published Dec 04, 2008

    The imperially long and strange-looking street carts that vend lamb and chicken kebabs dusted with Asian cumin and chile pepper and flamed over charcoal have become a fixture of Flushing in t... More >>

• Óbiká Mozzarella Bar, Where Buffalo Roam

  published December 3, 2008

  Three white blobs glow on an elongated plate, cushioned by some attractive but useless baby-spinach leaves and attended by a few cherry... More >>

• Strange Snacks of the World - Poutine

  published Dec 02, 2008

  Not to be confused with the former prime minister of Russia, poutine is Quebecois soul food, a crazy toss of French fries, pale squeaky cheese curds, and brown gravy. Since this is really French fo... More >>

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Corner 28

  published Dec 01, 2008

  Street food was, until recently, but a wan presence in Flushing's Chinatown. But now the new northern and western Chinese immigrants have upped the ante with zestier and more profuse street fare. Car... More >>

• Noted in Passing: Main Street, Flushing

  published Dec 01, 2008

  We didn't realize anyone needed to be cured from a Chinese Communist Party affiliation, or even that there were any devout Chinese Communist Party members walking the streets of Queens. It makes us ... More >>

• Braeburn's Funny Farm

  published November 26, 2008

  The far end of the dining room is dominated by a wall-size painting only half-finished, as if the artist had been called away to dinner and... More >>

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Yatagan

  published Nov 25, 2008

  What carnivores among us can resist stopping and gawking when a giant mass of meat heaves into viewr Turn the corner from Bleecker onto MacDougal and there it is, a giant meat cylinder the size of a... More >>

• Join Me in Eating Some Smut

  published Nov 24, 2008

  When a friend asked recently where she could find huitlacoche, I replied, just about anywhere there's a Mexican grocery. Huitlacoche (Ustilago maydisis, sometimes spelled "chuitlacoche") is a fungu... More >>

• Paneling

  published Nov 20, 2008

  A panel of experts convened at NYU's Fales Library late this afternoon to discuss "How Food and Food Writing Have Changed America." The moderator was restaurant consultant Clark Wolf, and the panel ... More >>

• Think I'll Have Another Glass of Mexican Wine

  published Nov 20, 2008

  I'm a big fan of the band Fountains of Wayne. So big a fan, in fact, that I've made the pilgrimage to Wayne, New Jersey to see the original Fountains of Wayne -- a store that displays a bizarre coll... More >>

• Late Season Tomato Confit

  published Nov 19, 2008

  Sniff! Sniff! The sad last tomatoes, mainly from south Jersey, are rolling into the farmers markets around town. Woody, bruised, low on flavor, and often as pale as if they'd been suffering from the... More >>

• Philippu Lounge y Restaurante: Food A Dominican Could Love

  published November 19, 2008

  Anyone who propelled at night up Ravenswood's main drag of 21st Street would have seen it: a life-size gondola outlined in Christmas lights... More >>

• Sichuan Sears Smith Street

  published Nov 18, 2008

  Misspelling "Szechuan," perhaps for the purpose of suggesting the bad old Szechuan restaurants of the Upper West Side in the 1970s, Szechuan Gourmet gets the pin yin spelling right a mere inch below... More >>

• The Early Word -- Salumeria Rosi

  published Nov 17, 2008

  Cesare Cassela's new green balls, shown in their carryout container New York's own Tuscan cowboy chef, Cesare Cassela, is in the process of opening his new cafe and pork store known as Salumeria Ros... More >>

• Whither Chelsea Marketr

  published Nov 13, 2008

  The Chelsea Market Ensconced in the old Nabisco factory at the corner of 15th Street and Ninth Avenue, Chelsea Market opened 11 years ago with the intention of being a top retail market for a vast r... More >>

• Taste Test -- Burger Creations

  published Nov 13, 2008

  Forget the rather frou-frou name -- Burger Creations throws down its albeit tiny gauntlet to the esteemed burger chain Five Guys, which has been steamrollering around town lately, setting up branche... More >>

• Keep Your Eyes on MaiThai

  published November 12, 2008

  A few weeks ago, we reported on Am-Thai Chili Basil Kitchen, a microscopic but very good restaurant in Kensington that specializes in the... More >>

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Mambi

  published Nov 11, 2008

  Caldo Gallego is Dominican soul food. "Gallego" refers to the language and population of Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain composed of sea cliffs and green hills that is unlike most people's i... More >>

• I, Locavore -- Part One

  published Nov 10, 2008

  A locavore, of course, is a person who's greatest priority, food-wise, is to purchase wholesome products made as close to home as possible. Partly, this a intended to reduce one's carbon footprint, ... More >>