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Christina Tosi

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    May 11, 2012

    This Week's Specials: Soba, Hot Dogs, and James Beard

    What we've been up to at Fork in the Road this week: Robert Sietsema gives us the verdict on the best soba in NYC. He talks up Lower East Side Corcoron and throws in a mention for the East Village-based SobaKoh: "Soba are often eaten cold with a soy-based dipping sauce. The noodles feel cool on the ... More >>

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    May 8, 2012

    A Few Words With Some James Beard Award Winners

    The James Beard Awards, a night when chefs and media collide at Lincoln Center to hobnob in crowded press rooms then drunkenly spill beer on each other at the after parties -- this is the only time of the year you'll see straight-laced restaurants like Eleven Madison Park and Gramercy Tavern swap am ... More >>

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    May 8, 2012

    Winners of the James Beard Foundation's Restaurant and Chef Awards

    Last night, the James Beard Foundation's winner's list was completed--the media awards were over the weekend and listed here yesterday. In addition to major excitement over the first ever Outstanding Bar Program award other highlights included a tie for Best Chef Southeast (a hot dining destination ... More >>

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    February 24, 2012

    Our 10 Best New York City Restaurant Cookbooks

    Going out to dinner in New York City can be an expensive endeavor, with entrée prices clocking in at $30. But you can eat four-star food at a fraction of the price: Cook it yourself using the restaurant's cookbook. Now, cookbook love is like any other type of love -- wildly subjective. Yet some of ... More >>

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    February 21, 2012

    James Beard Foundation Announces Chef and Restaurant Semifinalists

    ​The James Beard Foundation has released a list of semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards in various chef and restaurant categories. The nominees will be narrowed down on March 19, but in the meantime, check out which New York restaurants and bars have made it this far.

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Nine Food TV Shows We'd Love To See

    ​How did food television become so boring and predictable? Umpteenth season of Top Chef? Yawn. Endless cupcake wars? Yawn. Paula Deen pouring more butter into the cake? Yawn. Guy Fieri tucking into another giant hamburger? Zzzzzzzzz. Well, the time has come to invent new types of food-themed s ... More >>

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    January 13, 2012

    NYC Chefs and Cookbook Writers Take Center Stage in the Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks

    The Piglet, Food52's tournament of cookbooks, which is modeled after The Morning News' Tournament of Books, has released this year's bracket, with many New York City chefs and cookbook authors in the mix. The Dutch chef Andrew Carmellini's American Flavor, New York Times writer Melissa Clark's Cook ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Naked Chef Pics and Cookie Mix

    Daniel Boulud loves him some Frito pie. [Food Republic] Word's out that Top Chef contender Ty-Lör Boring bares all in a new "art" magazine. [Eater]

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Thanksgiving Sandwiches Put Your Holiday Between Bread

    Lauren BloombergLenny's: Where the Pilgrims went for takeout?​ Sure, Thanksgiving is awesome. There's turkey, stuffing, and all sorts of delicious sides, but what's even better than a commemorative feast? The day-after sandwiches. Thanksgiving sandwiches are one of the best parts of the holid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Christina Tosi Blogs Her Way Around the Country; Stops to Visit Al Roker, Martha Stewart

    tosiontour.comBestie bakers.​In case you missed it yesterday, Momofuku Milk Bar's Christina Tosi made an appearance on Today. Meanwhile, today, she stopped by The Martha Stewart Show. Tosi is in serious book tour mode these days, traveling around promoting her new cookbook, Momofuku Milk Bar. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    A Look at the Cover of Lucky Peach Issue Number 2

    ​The first issue of literary food mag Lucky Peach was a big hit, selling out so quickly that publisher McSweeney's had to immediately order a second printing. Well, McSweeney's designer Walter Green recently tweeted out a photo of the cover of Lucky Peach's second issue, which was sent off to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Momofuku Wedding Cakes: Too Crumbly?

    Cake Wrecks​Christina Tosi's Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook comes out later this month, and there's a whole section about the "crumb," the nubby bits of sugar and spice that plump up the shop's beloved pies and cakes. Tosi herself is a big fan of the crumb, but it seems like other people aren't a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    VICE Munchies Is Back, and Peckish

    ​ VICE Munchies, the two-year-old Web series that has trained its lens on the likes of David Chang, Andrew Carmellini, Brooks Headley, and Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, has just kicked off a new season with an episode featuring Wylie Dufresne. As per the series's usual format, the chef ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    David Chang Is Fishing and Christina Tosi Is Partial to Crif Dogs' Cheesy Waffle Fries

    A man and his trout.​It's been relatively quiet on the David Chang front since he took the opportunity to extol the virtues of traveling first class and angrily defended his right to sell $5 bottles of Mexican Coke.

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Momofuku Milk Bar Cools Kings County Down With Brooklyn-Only Frozen Treats

    ​ Last Wednesday, Momofuku Milk Bar opened its doors near its commissary kitchen in Williamsburg. Along with the usual array of cookies and pork buns, the Brooklyn Milk Bar is serving its own unique soft-serve flavor: raspberry lemonade ($4.50). It's hard to imagine a more satisfying summer ic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Chef Boyardee Heiress Writes a Cookbook; Supperclub Holds Illegal Dinner on Subway

    ​As gas prices continue to rise, a number of farmers on small farms are trading in their tractors and returning to animal labor. [NY Times] Anna Boiardi, the granddaughter of Mario and great-niece of Hector and Paul Boiardi, immigrant brothers who founded Chef Boyardee in 1928, has written a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    The 2011 James Beard Award Finalists Are...

    ​Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Momofuku Milk Bar to Shack up With the Brooklyn Flea

    Momofuku Milk Bar​After putting down roots in Williamsburg, Momofuku Milk Bar is expanding its reach in Brooklyn via the borough's most orally fixated flea market.

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced

    opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tears​It's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    German Lucarelli 'In' at Da Silvano; Mehdi Chellaoui 'In' at Brown Café

    ​German Lucarelli is the new chef at Da Silvano. His first order of business: introducing brunch. [Grub Street] Chef and owner of Red Rooster Harlem Marcus Samuelsson was included in a list of most stylish New Yorkers. [TONY] Brown Café has a new consulting chef. Mehdi Chellaoui is a choco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    The Year in 'Consequential Ice Cream Events'

    Rebecca MarxGuerrilla Ice Cream's South Asian flavors: so 2010.​There are only 24 days left to make year-end lists, so the Atlantic is getting a jump on things with a round-up of "the consequential ice cream events of 2010." Compiled by Gus Rancatore, the co-founder of Cambridge, MA's Toscanin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Momo Milk Bar Climbs on the Cake Ball Train

    yummyinthetummyblog/FlickrNow in spherical form.​Back in March, Christina Tosi explained to us that she'd taken cake slices off the menu at Momofuku Milk Bar because they just weren't selling quickly enough. Cake fiends were none too pleased with the development, but now it seems that Tosi is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Red Hook Mercado's Menu Takes Shape

    ​The Red Hook vendors may have just kicked off their new season, but, like just about everyone else these days, they've already turned their thoughts to the promise of an open-air flea market.

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    April 15, 2010

    Will the Real Cereal Milk Please Stand Up?

    ​On the left: Tastyfood's Cereal Milk. On the right: Momofuku Milk Bar's Cereal Milk. In late 2008 chef David Chang garnered lots of attention by introducing an ostensibly new product called cereal milk at his newly opened Momofuku Milk Bar.

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    April 7, 2010

    Eddie Huang Hopes to Make the Vibe at Crackhaus "Abrasive" Enough to Scare Away the "Idiots in Lacoste Shirts" Who've Made the LES Suck

    Tasty ChompsEddie Huang serves steamed pork belly, smack talk.​While we at Fork in the Road are fans of the gua bao that Eddie Huang serves at Baohaus, we're also becoming quite fond of the rather frank musings he serves on his blog, Fresh off the Boat. To wit: last Friday, after we posted som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Christina Tosi Advises the General Public to Relax About the Lack of Cake Slices at Momo Milk Bar

    yummyinthetummyblog/FlickrGone, but not digested.​Oh, the scandal! Momofuku Milk Bar, Eater announced earlier this afternoon, is no longer selling cake by the slice. It's devastating news for solo cake lovers and roving stoners alike, as well as those fond of using the slices as meal replaceme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

    Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    The Momofuku Milk Bar Cookbook Is Coming in Fall 2011

    Robyn Lee/Serious EatsBrace yourself for a Milk Bar home invasion.​ The Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook that David Chang hinted about during an interview earlier this month is officially a go.

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    There's Going to Be a Momofuku Milk Bar Cookbook

    Robyn Lee/Serious EatsThis could be your refrigerator.​In a terse and otherwise completely unremarkable interview with the News Observer, David Chang offered one very sweet morsel to the North Carolina paper: there's going to be a Milk Bar cookbook.

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Under the Toque: Daniel Boulud to Man a Food Truck (For a Day); The Real Deal Behind Celebrity Chef Hotel Restaurant

    ​Christina Tosi, the pastry chef for the Momofuku empire, was named as one of T Magazine's Nifty Fifty, a roundup of "America's up-and-coming talent," for such creations as her signature cereal-milk panna cotta. [T via Eater] Why are so many celebrity chefs opening hotel restaurants? Apparen ... More >>

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    November 19, 2009

    An Early Look at East Village Asian Dessert Place, Spot: Serving Ovaltine Ice Cream, Chinese Walnut Cookies

    Ovaltine ice cream with "walnut soil"​ This week, Ace Watanasuparp and Chai Huadwattana opened Spot, a modern Asian dessert bar on St. Marks, with Pichet Ong as consulting chef. Last night, they were offering six different "seasonal dessert tapas," like white miso semifreddo and jackfruit cake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Christina Tosi Explains Why the Her Crack Pie Is Now Trademarked

    GlenwoodNYC.comEdible intellectual property. ​ Sometime during the past couple of months, new additions appeared on the Momofuku Milk Bar and Bakery menu: 'TM' symbols next to the cereal milk, compost cookie, and crack pie. Had someone been caught in the act of trying to copycat Christina Tosi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Momo Milk Bar Turns One on Sunday, Will Celebrate with New-Old Soft Serve Flavors on Wednesday

    ​Momofuku Milk Bar & Bakery turns one year old this Sunday, and will celebrate its birthday later in the week by bringing back some of the soft serve flavors that helped to make its reputation. According to its resident pastry sorceress, Christina Tosi, salty pistachio, cereal milk, and old-fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    David Chang: A Force For Good or Evil? Discuss.

    David Chang wuz here.​Scarcely a week goes by without news of David Chang popping up somewhere in the food blogosphere, particularly during those weeks when he talks shit about other chefs and publishes a cookbook. We at FiTR, which is a pork bun's throw from the Momo principality, got to musi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    A Nation Turns to Whiskey

    While sales of other distilled liquors have slumped, whiskey sales are on the rise. [LA Times]Your iPhone can be turned into a cocktail database with the right app. Just add booze. [WSJ] The Food Network's Sandra Lee is launching her own magazine, Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade. It hits newsstands today.[ ... More >>

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