The Amateur Gourmet, or Adam Roberts, is an American food and humor writer who resides in Los Angeles, California. Roberts, born in 1979, starte
his food blog
while a frustrated law student in Atlanta in 2004. Roberts moved to New York in 2005, and published a book based on his blog in 2007.Adam Roberts shares his culinary education online, in book - The Boston Globe
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'' describes him as "skinny and nebbishy, with a nasally musical theater voice that would fit perfectly on NPR's ''

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''"—and combines irreverent accounts of Roberts' own cooking attempts with

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essays and restaurant reviews. There are also short videos intended to be humorous, such as "Great Moments in Musical Theater Featuring Eggs." Roberts' roommates, friends, and romantic interests were regular characters from early on, but his eccentric family has been featured most prominently, including his celebrity-photographing parents from Boca Raton, Florida. Roberts has also been the

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's official blogger for the competitive cooking program ''

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'', and in 2008 became the host of their weekly web show, the ''FN Dish''. In 2010, Roberts sold his first cookbook to Artisan, the publisher of such notable cookbooks as the James Beard Award-winning '' Ad Hoc at Home'' and ''A Platter of Figs''. Roberts's book, ''Secrets of the Best Chefs'', was published in October 2012. Openly

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, he is the husband of screenwriter and film director Craig Johnson."Second-Time Director: Craig Johnson and The Skeleton Twins"
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'', December 19, 2012. In 2015, Roberts began work as a television writer on the ABC sitcom, "The Real O'Neals," starring Martha Plimpton and Jay R. Ferguson. In 2020, Roberts began writin
a biweekly newsletter on Substack
which currently has over 11,000 subscribers. His latest book, Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway: The Official Broadway Lover's Cookbook (co-written with Tony nominee Gideon Glick), arrives on shelves October 2022.

References

External links

amateurgourmet.com

Amazon page for ''Amateur Gourmet: How to Chop, Shop and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost)''

Boston Globe coverage of his book

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