Josh Ozersky

WATCH: Tackling The World's Most Bizarre Food

Posted 04.05.2012

Josh Ozersky is not a timid man when it comes to food. The meat enthusiast has surely eaten a lot of mammals in his time. But even Ozersky has an Achi...

The Age-Old Glories Of Cooking With Cast Iron

Time.com | Posted 02.29.2012

Let me tell you about my cast-iron pan. I bought it when I was at a Waldbaum’s in Jersey City, on a rainy night, for the cost of what then amounted ...

What If Eating Sustainable Seafood Doesn't Matter?

Time | Posted 02.01.2012

The first thing you need to know about Slavoj Zizek, the world’s most influential philosopher who is still alive, is that he is crazy. You can’t u...

Waffle House: The Great American Restaurant?

TIME | Posted 01.04.2012

Foodies active in the Twitterverse were amused, one recent night, to find myself and Andrew Knowlton, the restaurant editor of Bon Appetit, separately...

Josh Ozersky: Why 'Top Chef' Is Ruining Cooking

Time.com | Posted 01.02.2012

I love Top Chef. I will watch it every Wednesday. The 29 cheftestants in the new season, if they’re like the ones in every other season, will be div...

Should You Eat Baby Animals?

Posted 12.05.2011

In his weekly food column for TIME, Josh Ozersky writes about "The Gastronomic Case Against Eating Baby Animals." The self-professed meat lover and fo...

How The 'New York Times' Can Reform Restaurant Criticism

TIME | Posted 11.21.2011

The sudden, but not unexpected, and not unhoped-for news hit New York City last week that Sam Sifton, the unpredictable critic for the New York Times,...

How the Real Grilled Cheese Pros Do It

Nate Pollak | Posted 11.15.2011

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Bay Area restaurants are not trying to re-invent the grilled-cheese wheel. Rather, they seek to create a new-age sandwich; embarking on culinary endeavors that make our mouths water and our hearts, for lack of a better term, melt.

PHOTOS: Meatopia's Meatiest Dishes

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 09.24.2011

Saturday morning, it looked like Meatopia would be hellish. With the heat index in Manhattan soaring into the triple digits, the prospect of massive m...

WATCH: Meatopia's Savory New Trailer

Posted 08.29.2011

Meatopia, the self-proclaimed "Woodstock of Edible Animals" is coming to Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 23 at 5:30PM (you can buy tickets here...

Meatopia Organizer Pushes Back Against Planned Protests

TIME | By JOSH OZERSKY | Posted 08.15.2011

I just learned the word carnist. It means me. Giving special names to nearly universal attributes is a tactic used by people seeking to undercut the "...

The Hand-Pressed Triple-B (Bacon, Butter & Bialy Sandwich)

Josh Ozersky | Posted 08.15.2011

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The Future Of OzerskyTV

Josh Ozersky | Posted 08.02.2011

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Josh Ozersky On The 2011 James Beard Awards

Josh Ozersky | Posted 07.09.2011

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The Past, Present And Future Of The Hamburger

Posted 07.02.2011

Last week was Burger Week at Eater.com and "hamburgerologist" Josh Ozersky penned a three-part series on "The Story of the Hamburger." Part I: The ...

Gastrocrats: Destroying Dining For The Rest Of Us?

TIME | Posted 06.21.2011

There have been a lot of weird things for sale on Craigslist over the years. But a $3,000 dinner reservation? Admittedly, the rezzie is actually a Won...

America On A Plate: Michael Lomonaco's Surf & Turf

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.21.2011

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I like Michael Lomonaco, of Porterhouse New York, a lot. Who doesn't? But when he told me we were doing surf and turf, I hesitated. I never liked the ...

Mr. Recipe's Many Spices

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.19.2011

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Angelo Sosa's Social Eatz Burgers

Josh Ozersky | Posted 03.30.2012

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We all know Angelo Sosa from Top Chef, but before he went down that perilous path I had eaten, and appreciated, his food at Yumcha. So when he started...

Run On Ramps Sparks Overharvest Concerns

Posted 06.20.2011

UPDATE: The New York Times explores ramps fever, both among chefs and consumers, and questions if the green is getting overharvested. “I think we’...

Bubby's Pork Pie

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.13.2011

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Well, strictly speaking, it's not a pork pie. But I like it better than any pork pie I ever ate. Ron Silver came up with a sausage, bacon, and more sa...

Bubby's Sausages

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.11.2011

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How Mushrooms Became As American As Apple Pie

Time | Posted 06.11.2011

Fungus that grows on rot might not, at first, seem the perfect image of our culinary ideals. And yet, if there is one food that can most perfectly sym...

Chinese-Style Jerky

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.07.2011

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Po' Boys & The Hope Diamond Of Chicken Sandwiches

Josh Ozersky | Posted 06.04.2011

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