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As you can tell by the lack of posts, I took a nice lil break over the holidays. My office was closed starting 12/24 and I decided to totally check out. My much needed break started with a family ski trip (the background of today’s post is the plane ride from Colorado) and ended with…
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Happy New Year, everybody! It’s only day 1, but I hope 2015 is treating you well. Since Albert and I are in the same industy, we both got invited to a big black tie industry gala at the Pierre. It was fun to get all dressed up and party in one of New York’s nicest…
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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas yesterday! I’m spending my X-mas break in Vail so it’s sure to be a white one – even more so than today’s background pic of NYCs first real snow of the season. Happy holidays! As a Southerner, I didn’t grow up watching hockey but am happy to adopt…
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I know I wrote about Dominque Ansel Bakery yesterday but who cares – here we go again. This time, we’re talking savory. While the bakery is famous for their desserts, they serve a couple soups, salads, and sandwiches that are, apparently, not to be knocked. One such sandwich was profiled about eight months ago and…
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There are plenty of women willing to be a surrogate. Here’s why. I hurt just thinking about female circumcision. Binge watching TV has become standard. Since success of a show is often based on live ratings, I’m worried this is why so many of my favorite shows get cancelled. I still miss Happy Endings. Apparently…
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I try to refrain from blogging about the same place twice, but when I can’t stop thinking about a restaurant you deserve to hear me sing its praises. Dominique Ansel Bakery is my favorite bakery in the City, maybe even my favorite bakery of all the bakeries there ever were. This is huge considering how…
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Yes, I know we’re racing towards Christmas, but I still can’t get Thanksgiving out of my head, which is why my Thanksgiving plate graces the background of today’s post. I suppose it’s time to stop living in the past and start thinking about the other major holiday that’s almost here. If it’s half as good…
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The mafia is a rarely discussed piece of Jewish history, one that is overshadowed by major events like the Holocaust or minor events like “my son, the doc-tah”. When most people think of Jews, they think of the stereotypes. The smartypants. The weaklings. But guess what: in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, it was a…
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For my December restaurant pick, I wanted someplace that was similar enough to Albert’s choice of 5 Tacos so we could make a fair [enough] comparison between the two. It didn’t need to be tacos or even Mexican, but I did want it to be someplace casual with only a few chairs that served simple, authentic…
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I have consistently posted on this blog every weekday for a while now which means if I’m slacking I must be reeeeeally busy. That’s why when I had almost all of Sunday free, I thought the best thing I could do for myself was to cook up something yummy so I would have a fresh…
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Peaches to Apples 