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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2009 Stories by Robert Sietsema

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Street Tamales

  published Feb 15, 2009

  A tale of two tamales, one red and one green (click to explode) Not sure how when it happened, but East Harlem's 116th Street has become of paradise of Latin street vending. At $2 for two, the ta... More >>

• Happy Valentine's Day from Fork in the Road!

  published Feb 14, 2009

  Click to enlarge! Fork in the Road wishes you a happy Valentine's Day, and wishes we could deliver one of these grisly, heart-shaped lard cakes from the Dominican bakery on East 116th Street ... More >>

• Weekend Special -- Cookbook Corner

  published Feb 14, 2009

  This weekend Fork in the Road is kicking off a new series focusing on cookbooks and other food-related volumes that have appeared in our in-boxes recently. Ratio: the Simple Codes Behind the Craft of... More >>

• How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-Br

  published Feb 13, 2009

  Click to make this beautiful pastry life size! Nothing compares with the old-world goodness of Teutonic pastries--well, nothing I can think of at this moment. This $1.75 morsel from Greenpoint's ... More >>

• Keep the Tip -- Advice to Restaurateurs II

  published Feb 12, 2009

  In the previous installment, I bitched about two anti-consumer practices - slotting and herding - that upscale restaurants have developed to squeeze the maximum cash out of consumers. In a down-market... More >>

• Car Mysteriously Appears in Marc Jacobs Window

  published Feb 12, 2009

  A beat-up white sports car cryptically appeared late this afternoon in the Marc Jacobs store for women at the corner of West 11th and Bleecker in the West Village. Nobody cares what they're try... More >>

• East Coast Oysters vs. West Coast Oysters, Bout One

  published Feb 12, 2009

  The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster inton... More >>

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Four Over Rice Plus Soup

  published Feb 11, 2009

  Downtown Flushing's BLT, a palace of cheap eats Like spaceships arriving from another galaxy, cheap eats palaces are setting down in downtown Flushing, among the unreconstructed Chinese and K... More >>

• Pix from Warung Kario

  published Feb 10, 2009

  The city's only Surinamese-Indonesian restaurant reflects the activities of Dutch colonialists in both Souheast Asia and South America during the 19th century. Warung Kario is a hawker stall turn... More >>

• Warung Kario's Dutch Treat

  published February 11, 2009

  Shortly before the American Civil War, Dutch colonialists transported 13,000 ethnic Chinese from Indonesia to Dutch Guiana in South America.... More >>

• Eater Outs Critics

  published Feb 10, 2009

  Just in case you wondered what the shit bags who review restaurants in New York look like (presumably so you can stay as far away from them as possible), Eater's Amanda Kludt has obliged you by postin... More >>

• Driving and Eating

  published Feb 10, 2009

  Spotted this van in the netherworld under the BQE in Williamsburg. One side bore the enthusiastic slogan "Eat Your Baby." Is it the name of a band, or advice to the stroller-pushing hordes appear... More >>

• Keep the Tip -- Advice to Restaurateurs

  published Feb 10, 2009

  No doubt the restaurant climate in the city is changing as the economy spirals downward. While a few upscale restaurants (I'm talking about places that expect $50 or more per diner) still enjoy full c... More >>

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Potato and Egg Hero

  published Feb 09, 2009

  The little treat I like to call the "Fuck You Dr.  Atkins" sandwich The Italian-American potato-and-egg and pepper-and-egg heroes are the stuff of culinary legend, roughly equivalent to... More >>

• Goodbye Ganda

  published Feb 09, 2009

  The Solitary Cyclist at Monkey Town Food blogging luminaries turned out Saturday night at Monkey Town in Williamsburg to bid farewell to Ganda Suthivarakom of eatdrinkmanwoman.com. She's leaving ... More >>

• This Guy's a Keeper!

  published Feb 07, 2009

  Cake seen in the window of a Dominican Bakery on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park (click to engorge). The cake poses the following questions: What is the purpose and meaning of... More >>

• Ice Cream -- Hold the Dairy

  published Feb 07, 2009

  If you thought this was conventional gelato, you'd be wrong New to the East Village: an all vegan "ice cream" shop. The display mimics, not a Coldstone or a Baskin-Robbins, but one of the ... More >>

• Phanton Smell Identified

  published Feb 06, 2009

  NY1 ran a report this morning identifying the phantom smell that arrives from the west once or twice a year in Manhattan (yesterday, in particular), smelling like maple syrup being poured over hot pan... More >>

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Wonton Soup

  published Feb 06, 2009

  The usual bowl of wonton soup carried out from a neighborhood Chinese restaurant is none too interesting -- rubbery, thick skinned dumplings in a broth that tastes like dishwater. The wonton soup... More >>

• Dispatch from the Bacon and Bourbon Expo

  published Feb 05, 2009

  The expo on the second floor of the Astor Center seems to shimmer in the cold night air (click to enlarge). Online it was a billed almost like a class, but it felt more like a trade show once I... More >>

• How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-Br

  published Feb 05, 2009

  I've made no secret of my admiration for B & H Deli, a culinary gem in the East Village that consists of a lunch counter, a few tiny tables, and a crew of irascible waiters (years ago, there ... More >>

• Fleur de Sel Set to Close

  published Feb 04, 2009

  This sad news just into my email in box, a press release announcing the closing of venerable downtown restaurant Fleur de Sel:  Chef-owner Cyril Renaud announces the closure of Fleur de Sel, his ... More >>

• Mangda Na -- The Discovery

  published Feb 04, 2009

  Metaphorically speaking, mangda na is a Thai expression for shiftless suitors -- the kind of guys who hang around a girl, looking for some action. The kind of guys who flit from girl to girl, getting ... More >>

• Bad Food Jokes and Riddles

  published Feb 04, 2009

  It's that time of the month again - time for more bad food jokes and riddles, courtesy of a book I found in the trash, 101 Fast Funny Food Jokes by Phil Hirsch (New York: Scholastic Books, 1983). Acco... More >>

• Beloved Tuscan Chef Opens Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto

  published February 4, 2009

  First, there was Beppe. Done up like an Italian villa, it represented chef Cesare Casella's return to his roots. He'd grown up outside Lucca,... More >>