What others are saying about Not Eating Out in New York :
“Equal parts cookbook, diary, and notes from an elaborate science project”
— Gothamist
“Words I cannot type without feeling physical pain, actual physical pain”
— Chow
“Original, homey recipes intertwined with personal tales of food and life in the city.”
— MarthaStewart.com
Interviews, Features and Mentions:
Newsweek
May 1, 2020 – “Beyond Baking Bread, What Are the Lockdown Cooking Trends?”
Podcast Brunch Club
June 12, 2019 – “Why We Eat What We Eat host, Cathy Erway”
New York Times
June 11, 2019 – “A New Generation of Chefs Reframes Taiwanese Food in America”
Refinery 29
May 15, 2019 – “Why the Asian-American Food Movement Complicates What We Think About Authenticity”
New York Times
August 8, 2017 – “Icy, Sweet and Instagram Ready”
Imbibe
June 26, 2017 – “The Culture-Bending Appeal of Boba Tea”
PBS Lucky Chow
May 18, 2017 – “Taiwan’s True Flavor”
Forbes
October 18, 2016 – “The New Yorker Who Saved $7K By Not Eating Out For 2 Years”
The Leonard Lopate Show
August 5, 2016 – “Our Indispensable Guide to Buying Eggs”
Smithsonian Pickles & Tea blog
April 29, 2016 – “‘The Food of Taiwan’ & Taiwanese Red-Braised Pork Belly”
The Dinner Special
March 16, 2016 – “Cathy Erway: Eating In and The Food of Taiwan”
Eater
March 3, 2016 – “Tradition and Innovation in America’s Taiwanese Cooking”
Earth911
February 5, 2016 – “How to Root Out Food Waste at (and Away From) Home”
Domino
February 3, 2016 – “6 Essential Pots and Pans”
New York Post
January 9, 2016 – “This French dish is so delicious, it has its own festival”
Good Food Pittsburgh
November 24, 2015 – “What We’re Listening To: Our Favorite Podcasts of the Year”
Brownstoner
November 18, 2015 – “How to Host A Party In A Small Apartment”
The New York Times
September 22, 2015 – “Asian Essentials For Easy Weeknight Meals”
BookTrib
September 4, 2015 – “The Delectable Cuisine You Never Tried”
Audrey Magazine
August 25, 2015 – “Make Your Own Pork Buns with Cathy Erway’s The Food of Taiwan”
Taipei Times
August 20 – “A Country United Through Food”
The Splendid Table
August 14, 2015 – “Visit Taipei’s Night Markets to Taste Signature Dishes”
The Leonard Lopate Show
June 26, 2015 – “Hack Your Lunch Finale”
The New York Times
June 10, 2015 – “Taste of Taiwan”
Outreach for Taiwan
June 3, 2015 – “Talk4TW: Cathy Erway”
The Post & Courier
June 3, 2015 – “Finding Lowcountry Echoes in Taiwanese Food”
BuzzFeed
May 21, 2015 – “9 Things You’re Doing Wrong with Chopsticks”
Miss Panda Chinese
May 16, 2015 – “Growing Up Hapa: Meet Cathy Erway, Author of The Food of Taiwan”
Epoch Times
April 17, 2015 – “Q&A with Cathy Erway”
Epoch Times
April 17, 2015 – “‘The Food of Taiwan’ by Cathy Erway Review”
AM Northwest
April 8, 2015 – TV spot, “The Food of Taiwan Author Cathy Erway”
The Leonard Lopate Show
March 24, 2015 – “The Food of Taiwan”
Huffington Post
March 18, 2015 – “The Mysterious ‘Q Texture’ You Didn’t Even Know Your Food Was Missing”
Publishers Weekly Radio
March 13, 2015 – “Cathy Erway and Cookbooks Month”
Beyond Chinatown
March 1, 2015 – “The Food of Taiwan by Cathy Erway”
CourseHorse
January 21, 2015 – “2015 Tastemaker: Cathy Erway, Not Eating Out in New York”
Serious Eats
January 19, 2015 – “Cathy Erway’s Favorite Cookbooks”
Infinite Explorers
November, 2014 – “Cathy Erway: An Appetite for Culinary Adventures”
Mother Nature News
September 23, 2014 – “Food Geeks: Tune into Heritage Radio’s podcasts”
XOXO Cooks
May 19, 2014 – “Kung Pao Chicken Recipe Featuring Cathy Erway”
Spoon & Apron
April 16, 2014 – “Cathy Erway on Writing Her First Taiwanese Cookbook Ever”
Guest of a Guest
May 21, 2013 – “Food Bloggers to Follow in NYC”
The Dinner Party Download
May 20, 2013 – “When it comes to groceries, guilt is good”
Head to Toe Wellness
April 17, 2013 – “Seriously! Not Eating Out In New York”
Cooking Light
March, 2013 – “Healthy Habits Hero: Cathy Erway”
Green Globetrotter
March 10, 2013 – “On the bookshelf: The Art of Eating In”
The Culture-Ist
February 28, 2013 – “Why One New Yorker Boycotted Eating Out And Embraced Cooking, Foraging and Trash-Diving”
WNYC’s All Things Considered
February 1, 2013 – “One Rad Radish”
TEDxSetonHall
April 2012 – “Food Blogging & Lifestyle Change”
Food52.com
April 5, 2012 – “Chicken-Rearing & Taco Night with Cathy Erway”
The New York Times
April 3, 2012 – “Straight From the Home Coop”
All That We’ve Met
November 4, 2011 – “Cathy Erway could use a bodega next to the farm”
Kansas Wichita Eagle
June 9, 2011 – “How to Generate Sizzle When You Invite a Date to Dinner”
WNYC All Things Considered
May 27, 2011 – “Last Chance Foods: Pea Shoots”
BUST Magazine
April/May 2011 – “The Food Issue: Food Blogger Potluck”
FoodSpotting
April 17, 2011 – “Spotlight: Cathy Erway on the Art of Dining Out”
joonbug
March 30, 2011 – “The Food that Brought Tears To Our Eyes”
More Magazine (Canada)
February 25, 2011 – “Do we eat out too much?”
AOL’s City Best
February 22, 2011 – “Cathy Erway on Not Eating Out in New York”
WNYC All Things Considered
February 4, 2011 – “Last Chance Foods: Chestnuts Roasting”
amNew York
January 25, 2011 – “Running low on food? Bloggers divulge their best improved meals”
PoorTaste New York
January 24, 2011 – “Eating with Cathy Erway”
AOL KitchenDaily
January, 2010 – “Cooking at Home for Two Years – Cathy Erway”
Eater
December 30, 2010 – “The Top 10 Eccentric Brooklyn Food Personalities”
The Novel World
December 21, 2010 – “The Art of Eating In – Review”
Serious Eats
December 8, 2010 – “The Ten Best Cookbooks of 2010”
Jauntsetter
November 3, 2010 – “Jauntsetter of the Week: Cathy Erway”
House Smarts TV
September, 2010 – “Back to Basics Episode”
Plummelo
September 14, 2010 – “Favorite Food Person: Art of Eating In’s Cathy Erway”
sueddeutsche.de
August, 2010 – “Noch ein Amuse Bouche, Alter?”
Emporia Gazette
August 27, 2010 – “A book all about food”
WNYC All Things Considered
August 13, 2010 – “Cranberry Beans To Save Your Life”
MetroMix New York
August, 2010 – “Urban farms in NYC”
The Frugal Kitchen
August 12, 2010 – “Review: Cathy Erway, The Art of Eating In”
iVillage
June 24, 2010 – “9 July Fourth Recipes from Favorite Bloggers”
Newsweek
June 19 2010 – “Eco-Restaurants — Icko”
WNYC’s The Takeaway
June 9, 2010 – “A Barbecue Smackdown: Chef Rossi vs. Cathy Erway”
Simple, Good & Tasty
May 19, 2010 – “The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove”
Edible Brooklyn
Spring 2010 – “The Restaurant Fast”
Marie Claire
April 29, 2010 – “6 Tips for a Hot Dinner Date at Home”
Ooh.com
April 22, 2010 – “Go Green for Earth Day – reuse, reduce, recycle”
Village Voice
April 21, 2010 – “A Night With the Noble Rot”
Food Talk with Mike Colameco
April 18, 2010
Martha Stewart
April 8, 2010 – “Eat Drink with Lucinda Scala Quinn”
BudgetLife
April 2, 2010 – “17 Great Blogs and Websites to Help You Eat Healthier”
Alternative Consumer
March 24 – “Do You Love Your Stove?”
Makeover Momma
March 18, 2010 – “Eating In Can Help You Slim Down (And Be Eco-Friendly): Double Duty Diet”
USA Today
March 12, 2010 – “Books Roundup: A feast of food and travel”
Treehugger
March 10, 2010 – “Cathy Erway on the Art of Eating In: The Treehugger Interview”
Honeybee Holistic
March 9, 2010 – “Everybody all eat in!”
Brokelyn
March 8, 2010 – “The $5 dinner (for two) and other secrets of Not Eating Out”
Austin Statesman
March 3, 2010 – “Rediscovering the art of eating in”
DailyCandy
March 2, 2010 – “Sixteen Oscar-Worthy Picks”
Ladies Home Journal
February 24 – “Ladies We Love: Cathy Erway”
Conde Nast Traveler
February 23, 2010 – “Opting Out of New York Restaurants”
Tasting Table
February 22, 2010 – “Homeward Bound: Cathy Erway makes an art of the home-cooked meal”
Serious Eats
February 22, 2010 – “Cook the Book: The Art of Eating In”
Sustainable Food
February 22, 2010 – “The Art of Eating In”
Fox Good Day New York
February 18, 2010 – “Braised Lentil Stew by Cathy Erway”
Good
February 18, 2010 – “Eat At Home, Save the World”
New York Post
February 17, 2010 – “Food blogger Cathy Erway ate in for a year”
Gothamist
February 17, 2010 – “Food Blogger Eats In, Loses Weight, Saves Money, Writes Book”
Civil Eats
February 15, 2010 – “Get Cooking! with The Art of Eating In”
Capture Your Flag
February 15, 2010 – Capture Your Flag Interview
Treehugger
February 15, 2010 – “Huffington Post’s Week of Eating In Challenge”
The Huffington Post
February 9, 2010 – “The Week of Eating In: A HuffPost Green And Eyes&Ears Challenge”
Goodlifer
February 9, 2010 – “The Art of Eating In… And Finding Yourself”
The Huffington Post: Lorna Sass’s blog
February 9, 2010 – “Vicarious Pleasure: The Art of Eating In”
Time Out New York
February 2, 2010 – “Ten Reasons to Stay Single”
Bookslut
February 1, 2010 – “After Julie/Julia: The New Generation of Food Blog-to-Books”
Glamour
January 25, 2010 – “Breakfast At Your Desk: A Frittata (With Kimchee)!”
Village Voice Fork in the Road blog
January 20, 2010 – “Cathy Erway’s Next Project: a Rooftop Garden for Sixpoint”
Publishers Weekly
January 19, 2010 – “Talking Food Writing with Powell, Hesser, and Company”
Slow Food USA Blog
January 8, 2009 – “The Future of Food Writing”
NBC New York
January 7, 2009 – “Food Fight: The Future of Food Writing”
The Green Standard
December 20, 2009 – “Documentary Filmmakers Are Hungry For Change”
Phoenix New Times
November 27, 2009 – “Gobble It Up: Better Alternatives to the Leftover Turkey Sandwich”
Working Class Foodies
November 23, 2009 – “Thanksgiving Leftovers: Not Eating Out in NY w/ Cathy Erway”
Hey Brooklyn
October 22, 2009 – “Episode 28 – Cathy Erway”
Brokelyn.com
September 28, 2009 – “Pennypinching food bloggers: How low can they go?”
Bon Appetit
October 2009 print issue – “Eat Together, Save the World”
AlwaysHungry
August 31, 2009 – “The Hapa Kitchen Luau at Brooklyn Yard”
Snacky Tunes, Heritage Radio Network
August 24, 2009 – listen to podcast
SuperForest
August 15, 2009 – “The Souperdouper Soup Kitchen Blog Heroes”
Serious Eats
August 11, 2009 – “The Greenmarket: One Farmer’s Story”
The Feedbag
July 23, 2009 – “NEOINY Shares Slow Food Grill-Off Recipe”
July 22, 2009 – “The Slow Food Cook-Off Was Fun, And Some of the Food Was Good”
Serious Eats
July 23, 2009 – “Scenes from Slow Food’s Rainy, Porky Grill-Off at Water Taxi Beach LIC”
Goodlifer
July 16, 2009 – “Making dumplings at Garden of Eve”
The Globe (Canada)
July 1, 2009 – “Good Eats, At Your Convenience”
The Feedbag
June 24, 2009 – “Half-Asian Sensation: Hapa Kitchen Sizzles”
New York Daily News
June 14, 2009 – “The $15 Meal Challenge: Cathy’s Romantic Meal for Two”
Woman’s Day
June 10, 2009 – “Top 10 Innovative Ice Cream Flavors”
The Village Voice Fork in the Road blog
June 8, 2009 – “Report from the Hapa Kitchen Cook-out at Brooklyn Yards”
The Huffington Post: Katherine Goldstein’s blog
May 20, 2009 – “Adventures in (Secret) Dining: Dinner Down on the (Queens County) Farm”
New York Times
May 12, 2009 – “In New York, the Taste of Victory”
Goodlifer
May 11, 2009 – “Goodlifer: Cathy Erway”
Slashfood
May 11, 2009 – “Rumble in the Jungle: A Tofu Takedown Rundown”
Metromix New York
May 11, 2009 – “Tofu Takedown”
Time Out New York The Feed blog
May 11, 2009 – “Tofu Takedown: is tofu the next bacon?”
Glamour.com
May 5, 2009 – “A Site That Will Save You a Few Bucks in the Kitchen”
92.3Now.com
April 3, 2009 – “5 Sites for Domestic Gods and Goddesses”
Serious Eats
March 26, 2009 – “A Visit to the Queens County Farm Museum”
Gourmet.com
March 20, 2009 – “Food Bloggers Take SXSW”
WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show
February 27, 2009 – “Crowdsourcing: Lunch”
Times Online
February 17, 2009 – “50 of the world’s best food blogs”
The Feedbag
February 3, 2009 – “The Sit-Down: Cathy Erway of Not Eating Out in NY”
Serious Eats
January 15, 2009 – “Meet & Eat: Blogger Cathy Erway, Not Eating Out in New York”
Pix11 Morning News blog
January 13, 2009 – “Have A Fiesta In Your ‘Hood With ‘Bodega Party In A Box’”
The Takedowns
December 30, 2008 – “Cathy Erway – Chili Celebrity Gone Wild”
PC Magazine
December 29, 2008 – “Our Favorite Blogs”
Publishers Weekly
December 28, 2008 – “What We’re Looking Forward To: 2008’s Most Exciting Cookbook Deals”
Serious Eats
December 26, 2008 – “Photojojo’s Food Photo Safari this Sunday”
Bon Appetit
December 10, 2008 – “Blog Envy”
Neighborbee Blog
October 23, 2008 – “Beeline Interviews: Not Eating Out in NY’s Cathy Erway”
Williamsburg is Dead
October 20, 2008 – “Lord of the Pies”
The Feedbag
October 10, 2008 – “Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown”
Brooklyn Based
October 1, 2008 – “The Big Brooklyn Pig Roast”
MarthaStewart.com
September 17, 2008 – “Best of the Blogs: Editors’ Picks”
Grub Street
August 25, 2008 – “Tacos and a Contest at the New York by ‘New York’ Highbrow BBQ”
Eater
July 25, 2008 – “Eaterwire: Upcoming Brooklyn BBQs”
Martha Stewart Everyday Food
July 21, 2008 – “Let’s Be Frank”
Chow
July 1, 2008 – “Better Off at Wendy’s”
Brooklyn Based
June 10, 2008 – “Hungry for Love”
Pink of Perfection
May 30, 2008 – “Not Eating Out in New York with Cathy Erway”
Saveur.com
May, 2008 – “Cook-Off: Risotto”
The L Magazine
April 2, 2008 – “The Great Risotto Challenge”
The Brooklyn Paper
March 29, 2008 – “Tasty Restaurant Gossip”
BlogHer
March 9, 2008 – “Combining Food and Politics”
Gothamist
March 6, 2008 – “Cook Your Best Risotto, Win Prizes and Bragging Rights”
Desserts Magazine
February, 2008 – “Pain with Chocolate”
Yahoo Green
November 27, 2007 – “Here’s a crazy idea — stay in for dinner”
Grub Street
November 14, 2007 – “Bodega Classic: Genteel Versus Gritty”
Culinate
March 16, 2007 – “In or Out?”
Gothamist
March 7, 2007 – “Cathy Erway, Chef, Writer”
Eat Drink One Woman
Dec. 8, 2006 – “You Are What You Eat, Cathy Erway”
FoodCandy
Nov. 9, 2005 – “Interview with Cathy Erway, NOT eating out in New York”
Gothamist
Oct. 3, 2006 – “Cozying Up to Fall”
Slashfood
Sept. 28, 2006 – “Not Eating Out in NYC: A Blogger’s Tale”