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Category Archives: eating well

Spoiler alert, there is no recipe for stuffed peppers to be found anywhere in this post, or anywhere @The Chef’s Last Diet. Because this is my site, I get to decide what to include, what to cook, and what to talk about, and I don’t like stuffed peppers. I do like stuffed other things, like […]

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I can’t recall the first time I had an egg cream, but I was too young to question the lack of both egg and cream in this delicious treat. For years, Dave’s on the corner of Canal and Broadway was the place for an authentic NYC egg cream, and I would often stop there on […]

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I can’t believe this is my first post about dim sum! I have loved dim sum for almost the entire span of my life. When I was in college at NYU my friends and I frequented New York’s nearby Chinatown; my friend Alice and I had lunch at Sam Wo’s every Friday. Once I moved […]

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In culinary school the longest class we took was a class called Wines and Menus.  It was really two classes, and if you were lucky  (and I was) you had menus in the morning and wines in the afternoon.  We met five days a week, working in small teams to create a plan for a […]

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