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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2010 Stories by Robert Sietsema

• Cow-Tripe Cau Cau at Lima Limon in Jackson Heights

  published Dec 14, 2010

  The turmeric-laced tripe stew at Lima Limon. Peruvian newcomer Lima Limon offers the usual range of variety meats seen in Peruvian restaurants. There are anticuchos, flame-grilled kebabs of veal hea... More >>

• LES's Fried Dumpling Returns From the Grave as Inexpensive Delicacies

  published Dec 13, 2010

  Good as ever: fried pork dumplings at 99 Allen. Fried Dumpling, the city's first dollar dumpling stall, was evicted in March 2009 by its landlord, the Heaven Way Buddha Church (suck it up, Richard G... More >>

• The Great Foodrock Trivia Quiz: Part One

  published Dec 11, 2010

  Last week, Edible Manhattan hosted the third of their trivia nights at Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg, offering prizes as diverse as pounds of coffee, boxes of chocolates, locavoric wines, and, not ... More >>

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  10 Fast Food Items That Don't Totally Suck

  published Dec 10, 2010

  Originating in the world's first hamburger chain, the slider (or "slyder" as they've tried to brand it) at White Castle has a strange and strangely addictive flavor resulting from the steaming of chea... More >>

• The Five Most Hilarious Dish Misidentifications in the Window of Harrie's Diner

  published Dec 09, 2010

  The window of Harrie's is a gold mine of visual malapropism. I'm a sucker for any kind of plastic model of food. In fact, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to be a commercial food modeler... More >>

• Tomorrow: 10 Fast Food Offerings That Don't Suck

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Sure, Wendy's chili is totally acceptable, and maybe even good, but is that enough to catapult it into the top 10r Picture this: You're in a car on the outskirts of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, clutch... More >>

• An Xmas Warning From Joe the Art of Coffee

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Waverly Place, West Village, 11:35 a.m.... More >>

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  Lupa: Another Look at Mario Batali's Roman Restaurant

  published Dec 08, 2010

  The bavette cacio e pepe is killer at Lupa. When Lupa opened on October 1, 1999, it was the third restaurant for Mario Batali, and the second he'd started with partner Joseph Bastianich, following c... More >>

• Kin Shop--Harold Dieterle's Second Restaurant Goes Thai

  published December 8, 2010

  The most annoying aspect of Top Chef is the underlying implication that the show is creating the great chefs of the future. In my... More >>

• Xocolatl de David: World's Most Expensive Caramels

  published Dec 07, 2010

  My fingers were itching to open the box and see what was inside ... Fork in the Road's Lauren Shockey has already written about Meadow, the twee little shop on Hudson Street likely to be one of the ... More >>

• Doug E. Fresh Finally Gets It Together (Badah Badah Badha) at Harlem Restaurant

  published Dec 06, 2010

  At Doug E.'s, chicken and waffles will set you back $8. Rapper, human beatbox, and scientologist Doug E. Fresh wanted to start a restaurant as a source of employment and training for youth in his Ha... More >>

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  Tacos Arabes: The Inside Story

  published Dec 04, 2010

  A taco arabes from the El Idolo truck, seen by the greenish glow of the street lamp. "Arab's tacos" were invented in the city of Puebla in the 1930s, the result of Lebanese businesspeople who set up... More >>

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  Killmeyer's and the Kreischer Mansion: Meat and Murder in Staten Island

  published Dec 03, 2010

  The haunted Kreischer mansion was built in the 1880s. I always have an amazing time when sojourning in Staten Island, but the experience often turns gothic at some point. That was the case recently w... More >>

• Insatiable Appetite: The Art of Sang-ah Choi

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Recognize the boxesr Hopefully, the contents were used to make hash brownies! Sang-ah Choi is an American-trained Korean artist whose work is currently appearing in a show called "Insatiable Appetit... More >>

• Scenes From a Late Autumn Greenmarket

  published Dec 01, 2010

  No one will pay $5 per pound for them now, as these heirlooms huddle like refugees. It's season's end, farmers' market fans, the time when we make do with the last specimens wrung from the earth of ... More >>

• Whatr No Sushir

  published Nov 30, 2010

  West 14th Street, 9:45 p.m.... More >>

• Umi Nom Brings Filipino, Pan-Asian Fare to Pratt

  published December 1, 2010

  It's a Thursday evening well into the first semester of the school year, and Umi Nom is half-empty. Which is a shame, since nearly everything... More >>

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  The Inspiration for Mile End's Ruth Wilensky Sandwich

  published Nov 30, 2010

  Mile End's Ruth Wilensky is made with very good artisanal salami -- but the bologna has been omitted. Named after a Montreal neighborhood northeast of Mont Royale, Mile End is a Brooklyn deli that s... More >>

• Gordon Ramsay Cookware: Xmas Pots & Pans From Hell('s Kitchen)

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Even the box seems a bit grim ... Department and specialty stores are brimming this time of year with kitchenware endorsed by celebrity chefs, with Jamie Oliver (11-piece stainless steel cook set), ... More >>

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  Jackson Diner: Next Stop Greenwich Village

  published Nov 29, 2010

  The so-called kachori chat at the new Jackson Diner -- no kachori in sight, but good nonetheless. Long ago and far away (well, Jackson Heights, Queens), there was once a tiny cafe called Jackson Din... More >>

• We Can Dream, Can't Wer

  published Nov 28, 2010

  Greenwich Village, Sunday morning, 11:45 a.m.... More >>

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  Undocumented Lizard Found Grilled on Vietnamese Menu

  published Nov 26, 2010

  Ngo Van Tri, a Vietnamese zoologist traveling in the southern Vietnamese province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, came upon a remarkable discovery: a strange lizard species in which all the members are female, a... More >>

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  Szechuan Chalet Slings Some Unexpectedly Hot Hash on the Upper East

  published Nov 24, 2010

  In what my be its first ever appearance on Upper East Side turf--jellyfish! Like a very, very red oil spill, Sichuan restaurants have fanned out across the five boroughs, and no locale is seemingly e... More >>

• Szechuan Chalet Does Uptown Chinese Darn Well

  published November 24, 2010

  The conquest of the city by Sichuan restaurants is nearly complete. When the earliest eateries from that remote region of China first appeared... More >>

• Gazala's, a Druze Restaurant on the Upper West Side

  published Nov 23, 2010

  Chak choka (pronounced "shack shooka") is one of several Druze breakfasts at Gazala's. Gazala's (380 Columbus Avenue, 212-873-8880) is an offshoot of a small cafe in Hell's Kitchen called Gazala's P... More >>