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Andrew Knowlton

Deputy Editor. Andrew has worked at Bon Appétit since, like, forever (2000 to be exact). He oversees the magazine's restaurant coverage, including the annual Hot 10 list, and writes the rather opinionated Foodist column that has run in the magazine since 2008. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters (the older is named after a popular Southern cocktail). He likes all Atlanta sports teams, boiled peanuts, the Dead, JAWS, steal frame bicycles, and running long distances. He dislikes all New York sports teams, kiwis, kidneys, green bell peppers, and drivers who park in bike lanes. Spirit food: Hash browns scattered, smothered, covered, peppered and, if he's really tipsy, chunked

Recipes

Isle of Pines

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How You Like Them Heirloom Apples?

There are over 7500 apple varieties worldwide (2500 of which are grown in the US). But after a trip to the supermarket, you'd think there were a lot fewer. Why, for so long, have a few varieties--Granny Smith, Red and Golden Delicious, and McIntosh--dominated the apple market?
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What is the best cookbook?

Restaurants

The New American Tavern

Cooking

Best Seafood Restaurants

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Don't Try This Cocktail At Home

One of the cool things about cocktails, as opposed to fancy chef recipes, is their accessibility. Just about any joker armed with a good cocktail book, booze, ice, jigger, and shaker can mix up a drink with great results.
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An Iron Chef Battle Hannibal Lecter Would Love

As a frequent judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America, I feel I know a good battle when I see (and taste) one. Battle Olive (Iron Chef Symon versus Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield), Battle Cobia (Iron Chef Batali versus Jamie Oliver), and Battle Mango (Iron Chef Batali versus
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The Xanadu of Celebrity Chef Restaurants

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Is This NYC'S Best Burger?

I don't imagine any fancy chef sets out to be known for his burger. Similarly, I bet Hemingway, who wrote his fair share of classics--For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises--didn't think his 100-page novella, The Old Man and the Sea, would win him the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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NYC'S Second Hardest Dinner Reservation

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The Cruelest Practical Food Joke in History

"This is too good to be true," I thought. A colleague in Bon Appetit's flagship office in LA had just forwarded me the following email:
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The Only Three Reasons to Eat Brunch

I'm not one for brunch, which is rather unfortunate since I live in the City of Brunch, New York. Don't get me wrong, I dig eggs Benedict, smoked salmon and bagels, and Bloody Marys--when they are properly prepared.