Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
One of my New Years Resolutions is to start a new monthly feature on the blog (and, again, I resolve to revive the last monthly feature I started, Inspiration Station). Cooking with ingredients of the season just feels…genuine. Each month I’ll select one or two ingredients that are in season and highlight them in a…
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I am trying so hard to take it easy and get back to a routine this week. I went to the gym for the first time since Thanksgiving, I got back into the kitchen to test new recipes, and I spent a lot of time reading. My body and mind both seem to be responding…
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When I say I’m going to eat downtown, I usually mean East Village, Lower East Side, SoHo, or West Village. Rarely does “downtown” mean anything lower than that. But when two of your friends live basically at the bottom tip of the city, you may have to travel a bit. This time, a dinner date…
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It’s rare that I make breakfast on the weekends. I usually either use the weekend as an excuse to grab a bagel or breakfast sandwich from around the corner or to sleep in, lounge around, and make lunch my first meal. But this Sunday I convinced Albert to come over for a proper weekend brunch.…
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A new system in development will change the way we get onto the subway. Bye bye metrocards! Coming of Age Day is a mass Japanese bar mitzvah of sorts. Sometimes I’m tempted to get out of my more traditional career path and become a personal assistant. I’ve always proudly used the Oxford comma. My fellow…
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Extra Virgin is a great place for a date. I know this because while I was there with a couple girlfriends, we noticed most of the tables around us were occupied by couples. And why wouldn’t they be? Extra Virgin is a tiny West Village restaurant and “tiny” and “West Village” are three words that…
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The cold is back in NYC. We’re talkin’ single digits brrrr. I brought out an extra blanket last night and now my bed is so warm and cozy it’s become nearly impossible to get out of it. Snow is beautiful…until it’s been there for a day or two. Then, the sides of the street are…
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I know I just wrote about a Top Chef restaurant, but I’m doing it again just a week later. I probably shouldn’t be surprised when a restaurant by a Top Chef alum is actually good. They made it onto the show by being at the top of their game, but after 11 seasons of the…
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It’s been a busy week so far but that will only make the relaxation of the long, MLK Day weekend that much sweeter! The cold NYC weather of late calls for some serious snow boots, as seen in today’s background. I look like an eskimo. These chocolate covered peanuts have a liberal dusting of cinnamon.…
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For Albert’s birthday I gave him monogrammed beer mugs and then took him to Good Beer so he could put them to good use. As his present, he got to build two custom 6-packs and enjoy a beer flight. He was like a kid in a candy store. If a craft beer ships to NYC,…
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Peaches to Apples 