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"

More

2012 Stories by Robert Sietsema

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  You've Tried Caffe Capri's Celebrated Iced Coffee, Now Watch the Video

  published Nov 25, 2012

  Fixture of Willamsburg's Italian neighborhood for 38 years Riding a wave of Southern Italian immigration to Williamsburg that crested in the 1960s, Caffe Capri -- name checking an island at the mout... More >>

• FiTR Bids You a Happy Thanksgiving!

  published Nov 22, 2012

  This is the wonderful paper turkey with all the trimmings in the window of Anthropologie in Chelsea Market. Happy Thanksgiving from Fork in the Road! Don't eat too much! And here's the whole sprea... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Three Revolutionary Ramens

  published Nov 21, 2012

  The deli ramen at Dassara imports three notions from Jewish delis: pastrami, matzo balls, and chicken broth. Maybe New York isn't the ramen capital of the world yet, but it is asserting itself as a ... More >>

• How Good Are Brooklyn's Japanese Noodle Spots?

  published November 21, 2012

  In times of stress, the appetite turns to ramen for comfort. By flickering candlelight in a West Village restaurant during the hurricane's... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Best Sea Salt Caramels in NYCr

  published Nov 20, 2012

  Cathy C. asks: I'm afraid I've become addicted to chocolate-covered sea-salt caramels, and look for them wherever I go. Who makes the best ones in the city (willing to go to Jersey or Connecticut, too... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  5 Great Gutbombs: Introducing the Gutbomb Index (GBI)

  published Nov 19, 2012

  The ditch dogs at Ditch Plains are a notable gutbomb. It's been over a year since FiTR embargoed the use of the term "gutbomb" on our website, except for special cases. This is one of those special ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Seven Ways of Looking at a Twinkie

  published Nov 16, 2012

  Here's a commercial circa 1970 featuring "Twinkie the Kid." It was 1933 when the first Twinkie rolled off the assembly line, manufactured by Continental Baking Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The... More >>

• White Castle Shows You How To Stuff Your Turkey With Tiny Hamburgers

  published Nov 16, 2012

  Spouting inanities, the "chef" of White Castle shows you how to make turkey even more boring -- and freak out your guests in the process. No picklesr WTFr... More >>

• Introducing the Potato Sandwich

  published Nov 16, 2012

  It takes cunning to extract the sandwich from the elaborate packaging. Fork in the Road loves carbs - and hates Dr. Atkins and the South Beach Diet - so when we get a chance to multiply starches in ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  10 Food Idioms Explained: What the Hell Does 'Piping Hot' Meanr

  published Nov 15, 2012

  Easy as pier Our common speech is littered with food-derived aphorisms, metaphors, and other figures of speech. Some, like "wolfing down a meal" and "that guy's a vegetable," are rather obvious, but... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Letterman Skewers Fieri on Late Show [Updated With the Original Clip]

  published Nov 14, 2012

  The subject of the top ten countdown on the Letterman show this evening was "Discontinued Guy Fieri Menu Items" at Fieri's Times Square restaurant, which was the subject of a zero-star "poor" New York... More >>

• Some of the City's Best Nachos, in an Unexpected Place

  published Nov 14, 2012

  No lack of cheese on this version of New York's favorite bar snack Nachos is a quintessential Tex-Mex dish that was invented in the border town of Piedras Negras in 1943 by Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, bu... More >>

• Go Green at Sabor a Mexico Taqueria

  published November 14, 2012

  If you're addicted to the excellent tamales sold surreptitiously from shopping carts around the Port Authority, give those at the East... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Hanjoo Provides Koreatown-Style Cheap Lunch in the EV

  published Nov 13, 2012

  Piping hot and brought to the table bubbling, the squid and crab soup is a formidable lunchtime feed. Korean restaurants can be rather expensive, and a dinner at one of 32nd Street's barbecues will ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Conditions Still Bad in Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach, Most Restaurants Closed

  published Nov 12, 2012

  The Gorilla Cheese truck dispenses free toasted-cheese sandwiches to the storm-beleaguered of Brighton Beach. Bad as things are in Coney Island, they're worse in Sheepshead Bay, as my bike ride Frid... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Ivan Orkin's Ramen Benefit at Smorgasburg

  published Nov 10, 2012

  Ivan Orkin (left) at Smorgasburg, with the Manhattan skyline in the background. Today, noodle master Ivan Orkin joined Sun Noodles's Shigetoshi Nakamura for a one-day-only pop-up at the Smorgasburg ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Nathan's Famous, Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano Still Shuttered After Storm

  published Nov 09, 2012

  Nathan's Famous has been dark for nearly two weeks -- perhaps for the first time in its 96-year history. Today, I took a bicycle tour of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay. Those areas... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Bong Blogging: Our 10 Best Marijuana Stories

  published Nov 09, 2012

  Why reach for a ruler when your finger is handyr At Fork in the Road, we pride ourselves in our willingness to go any lengths to get a story -- even if it means putting alien substances in our bodie... More >>

• Sushi Cologne: Will Cats Chase You Down the Streetr

  published Nov 08, 2012

  Better than a trip to the sushi bar -- or maybe not. Demeter Fragrances, the outfit that brought you perfumes with the odor of Dirt, Baby Powder, Clean Windows, Funeral Home, and Egg Nog (I have the... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Greenwood Park Beer Garden Review

  published Nov 08, 2012

  Greenwood Park has a novel fence constructed of shipping skids. Sandwiched between Green-Wood Cemetery and the Prospect Expressway, Brooklyn's latest beer garden, Greenwood Park, began life as an au... More >>

• Mataheko: Mash! Pound! Eat!

  published November 7, 2012

  Located west of downtown Jamaica in an area known for its rough-hewn Dominican and Salvadoran bars and cafés, More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  How To Eat Fufu

  published Nov 07, 2012

  This is a loaf of banku, a mash that looks a lot like fufu, but is subtly different. Fufu can be made from plantains, or it can be made from cassava (a/k/a yuca or manioc). Either way it's boiled, k... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Parisian Pastramir

  published Nov 06, 2012

  Bar Boulud's pastrami sandwich with "gaufrette chips" -- hmmm, looks like potato chips to us. Fork in the Road is always excited when new forms of pastrami -- the Crown Prince of cured meats -- spri... More >>

• Bobwhite Lunch & Supper Counter Reopens After Sandy

  published Nov 05, 2012

  Owner Keenan Coulter shuttled between the basement and the dining room all day Sunday, preparing for a reopening of the restaurant. Last week's Counter Culture review appeared at an unpropitious tim... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Report From Chinatown

  published Nov 05, 2012

  Last Friday, a long line waited for the National Guard to arrive and distribute food and other disaster relief. (Click on any image to enlarge.) Meanwhile, trucks -- some bound for Chinatown -- are ... More >>