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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2013 Stories by Robert Sietsema

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  Luscious Raspberry-Lemon Tarts at Bien Cuit

  published Apr 26, 2013

  Who doesn't love a lemon-custard tartr When the new Bien Cuit debuted on Christopher Street, the main difference between it and its parent was the prevalence of new pastries. While FiTR has found th... More >>

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  Six Miracles of East Village Ungentrification

  published Apr 26, 2013

  Miraculously, lunch counter B & H Dairy remains, from the era when its stretch of Second Avenue was known as the Yiddish Broadway. As a tribute to E.V. Grieve, the East Village's chronicler of closu... More >>

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  Mole Poblano Goes Mainstream: Cosi's Sandwich Fail

  published Apr 25, 2013

  Cosi's bread looks like an alligator, or maybe tree bark. Those of us who fervidly celebrate the joys of immigrant cooking and its eventual assimilation into the standard American dietrthink tortill... More >>

• Confused About Regional American BBQr Listen to This Song

  published Apr 24, 2013

  Barbecue styles from the South, the Midwest, and points beyond have been invading New York City like an army of warrior ants in the last few years. As was demonstrated by a recent Voice cover story, w... More >>

• Korean Naengmyun, Spectacularly Served in a Bowl Made of Ice

  published Apr 24, 2013

  Keeping your noodles cold and refreshing The night before last I had the pleasure of dining with Matt Rodbard, one of the critics who participated in the new Korean Restaurant Guide: New York. This ... More >>

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  Nearly Free Japanese Curry This Thursday!

  published Apr 23, 2013

  The signature katsu curry, without further toppings, will be 55 cents this Thursday. Japanese curry is a strange entity, so remote from Indian curries (themselves a sort of convenient fiction), that... More >>

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  Café Cluny Chooses a Surprising New Chef

  published April 24, 2013

  No place better displays the quirky charm of West Village architecture than Café Cluny. Connected by a narrow passageway, the dining... More >>

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  Food at Barclays Fatty 'Cue is Really, Really Terrible

  published Apr 22, 2013

  FiTR has recommended where to eat at outside Barclays Center, but there's a whole host of places to eat inside the arena, too, including many counters and carts offering nachos, hot dogs, hamburgers,... More >>

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  Custard-Filled Galaktoboureko From Lefkos Pyrgos

  published Apr 19, 2013

  The custard in the Galaktoboureko is even better tasting than it looks. [Fat Pants Fridays was a weekly feature presenting the city's most appealing cakes, puddings, and other treats created by our ... More >>

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  Watertown Restaurant Strip-T's at the Center of Police Activity

  published Apr 19, 2013

  The picture of the restaurant on its Facebook page. If you've been watching the coverage of the Boston bombing on any of the networks, you know the the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took place on Wi... More >>

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  Joe's 14th Street: The Neighborhood Pizzeria Fights Back

  published Apr 18, 2013

  The blobs of fresh white cheese on Joe's "Fresh Mozzarella" slice look like fluffy cartoon clouds against an angry red sky. No doubt that the neighborhood pizzeria, once a leading dining institution... More >>

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  Brooklyn Is All About Clams

  published Apr 17, 2013

  The "stuffies" at Kittery are wonderful. Overflowing with fennel-flavored Italian sausage, they're Brooklyn on the half-shell. In the 1630s, when the first Dutch settlers started poking around in th... More >>

• Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

  published April 17, 2013

  Many New Yorkers cherish memories of New England seacoast vacations. And a visit to a lobster pound, clam shack, or oyster bar poised by the... More >>

• Dollar Pizza Reconsidered

  published Apr 16, 2013

  Hey, the pizza here is really good! A thought-provoking piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Sophia Hollander ("Economics, Sliced") bemoaned the decline of the neighborhood pizza slice, esp... More >>

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  La Vie en Szechuan's $7.95 Lunch Special

  published Apr 16, 2013

  La Vie en Szechuan's exemplary ma po tofu Midtown now boasts the city's largest concentrations of Sichuan restaurants. Most of these are timid compared to the ones in Flushing, offering little in th... More >>

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  What's the Garlickiest Dish in NYC (and Immediate Vicinity)r

  published Apr 15, 2013

  Rocambole is said to be the strongest form of garlic, and has a dirty appearance due to its purplish coloration. My Irish grandfather, Ned Lafferty, loved garlic so much he was known to take out two... More >>

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  The Evolution of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

  published Apr 12, 2013

  When I was a kid in Minneapolis, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was a sight to be savored. My friends and I would see it only once or twice a year, in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 'bur... More >>

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  Burger Joint's 'Normal' Burger

  published Apr 11, 2013

  At the new Burger Joint in Greenwich Village, a burger, fries, and a Coke will set you back $11.16, including tax. The abrupt opening yesterday of the first branch location of Burger Joint occasione... More >>

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  NYC Al Fresco Dining Begins With a Bang

  published Apr 10, 2013

  The outdoor dining area at at Doma Na Rohu on Seventh Avenue South is demarcated with lovely pots of early-blooming forsythia. As early spring temps soared toward an unseasonable 80 degrees, restaur... More >>

• Lambi and Other Haitian Delights

  published Apr 10, 2013

  Lambi is a fricassee of conch in coconut milk with root vegetables, variegated bell peppers, and chiles. This week, Counter Culture slithers into Cathedral, a Haitian restaurant right on Church Aven... More >>

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  New Age Pizzar Frankfurter Danishr Strange Wiener-Bearing Pastries Appear in Koreatown

  published Apr 09, 2013

  Qu'est-ce que c'est at Tous les Joursr Manhattan's Koreatown has been remaking itself at breakneck pace over the last two years, as Korean food finally approaches mainstream in New York. There are f... More >>

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  Cathedral Is A Haitian House of Worship

  published April 10, 2013

  Grillot ("gree-oh") is one of the glories of Haitian cooking. Fatty pork chunks are soaked in a citrus-shallot marinade, then simmered down... More >>

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  80/20 Baconburger at Dickson's Farmstand Meats: Scrumptious!

  published Apr 09, 2013

  Bulbous, pink, and mottled, Dickson's baconburger I'd popped into Chelsea Market last Saturday to score a lump of guanciale at Buon Italia, when the meat case at Dickson's Farmstand Meats caught my ... More >>

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  Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano Bounces Back

  published Apr 08, 2013

  From Totonno's limited roster of toppings, we ordered Italian sausage and garlic. Coney Island's ancient pizza parlor Totonno's reopened recently after a five-month hiatus following Hurricane Sandy,... More >>

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  Killer Picnics for Brooklyn Beaches at Brighton Bazaar

  published Apr 06, 2013

  Who can argue with bacon-wrapped bone-in chicken parts as perfect picnic farer The first picnic of the spring season is pending. I recommend the Brooklyn beaches, as laid-back as they ever get, incl... More >>