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Stories written by Rebecca OrchantRebecca Orchant is a New Mexican ex-pat living in Brooklyn. She likes onions and pickles more than most people, stops in every diner that crosses her path and has been known to indulge in a cocktail or two. You can find more vinegar, whiskey and butter-soaked tales on her blog, Chronicles of a Stomach Grumble.
Rebecca Orchant turns to her favorite life prolonging technique to save a bunch of lovely, tender spring veggies.…
May 24, 2012Read and Discuss
Once this drink is mixed, you have a well-balanced, complex cocktail batched and ready for you to cry on its shoulder.…
April 24, 2012Read and Discuss
Brooklyn's ChipShop reached food fame in the heyday of food shows due to its very special qualities: they will fry anything you ask them to.…
April 13, 2012Read and Discuss
Often, you eat something so good that it is memorable. Sometimes, you eat something so good that it becomes a memory of its own.…
February 27, 2012Read and Discuss
When you love someone, sometimes you do things for them that you don't totally understand.…
February 24, 2012Read and Discuss
In compact NYC apartments, locals wait all year for wintertime - so they can use the hell out of their ovens.…
January 31, 2012Read and Discuss
America's Family Recipes is a reminder that there are steps in cooking you just shouldn't skip.…
January 19, 2012Read and Discuss
If a popover and a pancake had a baby, it would probably be Dutch. By Rebecca Orchant I have a love/hate relationship with pancakes. I love them for certain things: the occasional, buttery crunch they get on the outside when…
December 26, 2011Read and Discuss
Albuquerqueans tend to like their enchiladas rolled. Rebecca Orchant has discovered that in a home kitchen, this is unnecessarily messy.…
December 2, 2011Read and Discuss
If you are wise, you will soothe your cold-weather rough edges with fried pickles and cocktails at The Vanderbilt.…
November 7, 2011Read and Discuss
Extra pickling brine became a very happy accident in Rebecca Orchant's cocktailing life.…
October 11, 2011Read and Discuss
I opened the fridge to realize we were out of homemade pickles. I proceeded to pickle everything in sight. I love okra. I have long been absolutely obsessed with it pickled, fried and stewed. But, I’ll admit, I’ve never worked…
October 10, 2011Read and Discuss
Love cocktails? Teetering on the edge of becoming a nerd about them? Speakeasy Cocktails is here to give you the final nudge.…
September 13, 2011Read and Discuss
Earthquakes, hurricanes, the end of summer. It's time to pull out all the stops for our deviled eggs while there's still time.…
September 1, 2011Read and Discuss
Something special happens to pickle people when Kirby cucumbers hit the market. They lose their minds.…
August 16, 2011Read and Discuss
The Bloomfield Bridge Tavern houses some of the cheapest beer, tastiest kielbasa and nicest bartenders Rebecca Orchant has ever encountered.…
July 1, 2011Read and Discuss
Rebecca Orchant suggests you don't be an ingrate this Father's Day, and put a cocktail in your dad's hand.…
June 17, 2011Read and Discuss
There are certain events that are so special, they require something very special to drink.…
May 27, 2011Read and Discuss