- Passover is here, so naturally it is time for matzo brei, there was even a brei off at Makor over the weekend. While we are at it, here is a take on matzo ball soup for the excellent Cooking for Engineers. - Speaking of the Passover holiday, apparently the recipe for Coke switches in order to conform to kosher rules, here is a look at what it means to you and how to find......

Tucker Shaw, food lover, author, Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth...

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Gothamist, fond of Amanda Hesser ever since we saw cook from her book, The Cook and the Gardener, at Fairway a few years ago, has to hand it to her. In her Dining & Wine > Restaurants: Mystery, Allure and Sushi" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/dining/02REST.html?ex=1401595200&en=52eb7c23cf74332c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">review of Masa, the swank $300 prix-fixe Japanese restaurant at the TimeWarner Center, she refuses to give it a rating...but not because it's bad:Masa is my last review as the interim restaurant critic. After......

While Junior's did not make the final cut in the Times cheesecake article this week, the Times dining section acknowledged Brooklyn mainstay last weekend: So it's not the Four Seasons. Nor even an Odeon, which more than two decades into its run has become a kind of La Coupole for the downtown Manhattan set. It's not even a Katz's, with its thin-sliced deli meats and goofy Greatest Generation charm. Those are all good places to......