Email Author Robert Sietsema

Awards

• 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"

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published June 23, 2010

  "An Open Letter to Josh Ozersky"

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2013 Stories by Robert Sietsema

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  Le Midi: Revenge of the Bistro

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Onion Soup -- On the subject of this classic soup associated with Paris -- featuring a cheese-soaked crouton floating on top of a sweet dark broth -- Patricia Wells quotes R.J. Cortine in her classic... More >>

• Le Midi Bistro: Adieu, Karaoke!

  published January 9, 2013

  "I read on Grub Street that this restaurant was once a loading dock behind a Woolworth's on 14th Street," my companion observed, chewing on the... More >>

• Use Head-On Shrimp Whenever Possible

  published Jan 08, 2013

  In Chinatown, you can get these beauties for $6 or so per pound. When doing anything with shrimp that involves making chowders, stews, or sauces, find head-on shrimp for the most spectacular results... More >>

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  Simit -- 'Turkish Bagel' -- Invades the Upper West Side

  published Jan 07, 2013

  The simit tastes pretty good, but is it actually a bagelr Above: the whole-wheat simit A neophyte chain called Simit + Smith has introduced a new sort of bagel to the Upper West Side. In Turkey, it'... More >>

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  Chocolate-Dipped Altoids: Four Strange and Very Funny TV Commercials

  published Jan 06, 2013

  Half-Deer Edward Part breath mints and part nose-clearing lozenge, Altoids was invented in the 1780s in England. The high dose of peppermint oil used in "The Curiously Strong Mints," as the advertis... More >>

• UWS Street Cart Offers Cut-Rate Hot Pastrami Sandwiches

  published Jan 04, 2013

  You read it right -- pastrami sandwiches for only $2.50 each. A street cart parked at the southeast corner of 72nd Street and Broadway, the crossroads of the Upper West Side, has started outflanking... More >>

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  All Hail the Punjabi Hero at Tastee Curritos!

  published Jan 04, 2013

  The chicken achari sub at Tastee Curritos. Don't you just love fusionr You fall asleep for a moment, and it leaps up and bites you on the ass. Such was the case with the chicken achari hero at MacDo... More >>

• Joe DiStefano Launches Chopsticks and Marrow

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Veteran food writer Joe DiStefano, whose beat is often Queens and the ethnic culinary glories thereof, launched a new website yesterday called Chopsticks and Marrow. Early articles put up in a flurry ... More >>

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  10 NYC Restaurant Trends for 2013

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Many crepe shops opened in 2012, but about half are already closed. French pancakes simply weren't the next big thing. Will 2013 turn out to be more of the same, restaurant-wiser Not on your life! H... More >>

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  Swine: The 5 Best Things to Eat There

  published Jan 02, 2013

  Looking like it was wrested from the English countryside, this West Village Tudor house is now home to Swine. A few months ago, the old Rubyfruit space was transformed into Swine. A pork-centric pla... More >>

• Swine: Farewell, Dear Lesbians...

  published January 2, 2013

  For nearly two decades, the whitewash-and-timber Tudor house near the corner of Hudson and Charles was a bi-level bar named Rubyfruit, after... More >>

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  New Type of Pizza Appears on Christopher Street

  published Jan 02, 2013

  A square of tomatoey goodness When a new type of pizza arrives in town, expanding the city's already far-flung pizza boundaries, it's an occasion to sit up and take notice, whatever the source might ... More >>