Writing about food since 2004.
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Travel
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New York Welcomes Karla to the Lower East Side with Dinner at Chibitini and “Cakes of Cup” at Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery
Lisa’s friend Karla moved to New York this past Thursday from Cincinnati, Ohio for the reason many people move to New York from Cincinnati, Ohio: she testified against an Ohio crime boss and now must live in hiding, forbidding even the most adoring of her new New York friends to take her picture for fear…
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Best Way to Wash Down Your Dumpling When Your Dumpling Isn’t The Person You’re Dating in a Bathtub But An Actual Dumpling: Meyer Lemonade at Rickshaw
The Oscars have nothing on The 2nd Annual Independent Food Festival and Awards and if you don’t believe me check out and click the snazzy logo (which, apparently, I’ve been able to wrap my text around. Whee! It’s text wrapping!) Oh how I love the Independent Food Festival and Awards. No, it’s not because of…
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A Blogger Breakfast at Balthazar
When Fatemeh of Gastronomie e-mailed me on Monday night and informed me that she was taking the red eye in for business and wanted to take me to lunch the next day at Pastis, how could I say no? Well, I did say no: not to the lunch, but to Pastis. I had a class…
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Que Pasa, Bar Masa?
You may recall that last week my parents sent me a gift certificate for Williams Sonoma in celebration of my 27th birthday. I decided to parlay this gift certifiate at the Time Warner Center location since the one in Chelsea isn’t as lavish and I wanted the full lavish Williams Sonoma experience. On departing for…
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Play You, Play Me: Pre-Theater Pizza at 44 & X
Sometimes you eat gourmet pizza because you’re in the mood for gourmet pizza. Other times you eat gourmet pizza because you’ve gotten student tickets for Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful,” it’s 6:30 PM and freezing outside, and the restaurant closest to the theater is too expensive for you and your companions. That restaurant would…
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My Last Meal at The 2nd Ave. Deli
I know I’m late to the game, but for those who may have missed it: The 2nd Ave. Deli is no more. This is very sad for several reasons: (1) the place had character; (2) the place was old, a landmark, a living relic; and (3) it had the city’s best chicken soup, coleslaw and…
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If I Only Ate A Brain (And I Thought I Did) At Craftbar
I had a song for you Thursday night. It was in response to a meal Lauren and I ate at Craftbar: Specifically, it was in response to my first course: Sweetbreads. The song started like this: “When a person’s mostly meat-fed they can’t avoid a sweetbread but from sweetbreads I obstain. Yet if I were…
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Service with a Smile, Service with a Sneer: Cafe Asean & Sparky’s
Context matters. You can eat the best food ever made, but if you’re eating it in bicycle shorts surrounded by mimes playing Kenny G music on kazoos it probably won’t rock your world. That’s because the trappings that surround a dining experience often play a bigger role than you’re willing to acknowledge. Take, for example,…
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Dos Chicas at Dos Caminos
Patty and I haven’t seen each other in ages. We made a lunch date for Thursday and Diana tagged along. They were going to see a movie at the Sunshine that started at 3 and they asked me to suggest a restaurant close by. At first I was going to push Fatty Crab, but that…
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Where Do Vegetarians Go When They Die? Angelica Kitchen, Of Course
When I think vegetarian, I think my friend Lisa. Our debates about vegetarianism have gone on for the entirety of our seven year friendship. You can meet her on Saturday if you come to our 2nd year anniversary party and she’ll espouse the benefits of a meat-free existence as I mock her over her shoulder.…
