At the start of a new year, food critics far and wide simply cannot resist the urge to forecast our foodie futures. I count myself among the guilty. I’ve been asked to compile my predictions for this year’s top 12 culinary trends for Spice magazine, and I wanted to give you a sneak peek. Though [...]
Archive for the ‘Lists to Live By’ category
January 13th, 2012
Top 12 Food Trends for 2012
July 27th, 2011
Edible Travel Necessities: The New Brown Bag
Whether by train, plane or automobile, any excuse to pack up and skip town is a welcome relief come the blistering summer sun. When the city becomes a sauna, that’s my ticket to head somewhere–anywhere, beach bound. While many of us find ourselves overindulging the second that out-of-office auto response has been set, starting your [...]
April 29th, 2011
Spring-Forward Cocktails (Part II)
11. Employees Only Everyone needs a neighborhood bar. But to be able to call Employees Only my neighborhood bar is something for which I’ll be forever grateful. Not that it’s a Wednesday-night-beer kind of place; the crowd at EO is always well-dressed, well-heeled, and sometimes tightly-packed on weekends. It’s the cocktails that make the scene, [...]
April 26th, 2011
Spring-Forward Cocktails (Part I)
As the warmer weather arrives, all the red wine and hot punch from the winter months becomes less desirable. The thought of warming my hands over a mug of mulled cider, as I so often did this winter, no longer seems appealing; with spring, thoughts of fresh herbs, flower blossoms, fizzes and flips take center [...]
January 13th, 2011
Enduring Trends for Edible Delights in 2011
It’s here! A new year that brings with it hope, inspiration, and stretchy pants; elastic waistbands may be a necessary comfort after all the heavy meals I’ve been indulging in over the holidays, but so too are the annual year-in-review lists that tend to get published as we transition into a new calendar. Come January [...]
January 7th, 2011
The Countdown: Best of Belle 2010 (Part II)
10. Free Wifi Hotspots in NYC (Part II) What makes any list even better? When it comes in two parts, giving you not only more to choose from but even more inspiration! If you’re feeling cooped up and housebound this winter, and are still in need for new, free wifi hotspots, take a gander through [...]
January 5th, 2011
The Countdown: Best of Belle 2010 (Part I)
The holidays have come and gone, and jolly ol’ Saint Nick has already made his way up your walk-ups, through your fire escapes, and dodged your doormen to drop his pressies and make it back to the North Pole in time for New Year’s. I hope you all got what you wished for and kept [...]
December 3rd, 2010
Women Wielding Knives: NYC’s Most Notable Female Chefs (Part II)
11. Anita Lo: annisa Anita Lo is another of the founding female chefs of New York cuisine, someone I’ve admired for years both in and outside of the kitchen. Her restaurant annisa has been uniquely influential in the downtown scene since it opened in 2000, and its menu, with its vibrant combinations of flavors, has [...]
November 30th, 2010
Women Wielding Knives: NYC’s Most Notable Female Chefs (Part I)
Being a female chef in this city used to be a lonely existence. As with many cities, New York was underrepresented when it came to women wielding knives in professional kitchens, and those whose names were known were few and far between (and often worked in pastry). These days, things are looking much brighter for [...]
September 15th, 2010
The Freshman 15? Fugheddaboudit!
The days of late night study sessions and parties overflowing with keg beer and Cheetos are long behind me, though the memories still linger like they happened yesterday. Some of them I’ll cherish forevs, like meeting my Tribe and working at my first few restaurant jobs in the city. Others, like getting out of a [...]
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