Talk about a spring tease! The last few days in New York City felt like full-fledged spring, but my Buffalo bones (and NY1) tell me there’s more winter on the horizon. Apparently it’s gonna rain on my birthday, and March’s madness is likely to keep us guessing till we turn the corner on April, and [...]
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March 9th, 2010
Market Report: Smashed
February 19th, 2010
Market Report: Everything Tastes Better with Bacon
With the wind whipping, temperature dropping and snow accumulating, I spent much of the last two weeks nesting in my cozy (and at times tropical) fifth floor walkup. By Wednesday, however, cabin fever started to set in, and I knew I needed to take a trip up to Chelsea Markets, specifically, to Dickson’s Farmstand Meats. [...]
February 5th, 2010
Market Report: Take it Slow
February is—for me—the most singular month of the year. It’s short, it’s unforgiving with its wicked weather and romantic overtures, and it’s spelled with one of the most baffling “r’s” in the English language. It’s bitterly cold, often snowing, and work is in shorter supply (at least for those of us whose idea of work [...]
January 19th, 2010
Market Report: Rooted
One afternoon last week, I ventured north to visit an old friend on the Upper West Side. The day was bright and beautiful, and from the 7th floor, it looked inviting. So, at her suggestion, we bundled up and headed for a walk along picturesque Riverside Park.
Now, I know that a few weeks ago I [...]
December 11th, 2009
Market Report: Dinosaur Kale
It happens suddenly. One minute, I’m walking through the crunchy yellow leaves and the crisp fall air, and the next, big globs of half-frozen snow are plopping down on the sidewalk – signifying, loud and clear, the end of always-too-short autumn and the start of honest-to-God winter. It’s like that day a few months ago, [...]
November 25th, 2009
Market Report: Gobble, Gobble
I have this friend, a certain Mr. Snotty McSnobster, which, if you can believe it, is not his real name, and with whom I disagree on just about everything… except maybe the reigning superiority of cheese as the world’s perfect food.
When he says “slow-food eating locavore” the words are dripping with derision; when I [...]
November 20th, 2009
Market Report: Evening In The Prep Kitchen
Click on the video screen above to watch the second webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s Fit for a Queen soiree, celebrating the launch of Queen Latifah’s new fragrance “Queen” at Macy’s, or click here to get my recipe for the featured Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli. Begin at the beginning to view [...]
November 13th, 2009
Market Report: Scallops, Santa & Scrooge
Like any through-and-through New Yorker, I have a secret, almost an illicit fantasy – moving. In this recurring dream, my destination is Northern California, where I’d live in an actual house, somewhere near the sea or grape vines, and do California things: like become a morning person and walk a big beautiful dog on the [...]
November 6th, 2009
Market Report: Mornings At The Market
Click on the video screen above to watch the first webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s Fit for a Queen soiree, celebrating the launch of Queen Latifah’s new fragrance “Queen” at Macy’s, or click here to get my recipe for the featured Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli. Shopping at the Union Square Farmers’ [...]
October 30th, 2009
Market Report: Don’t Play With Your Food
My first crush was Jason. Jason was way too cool for school, and way too impressed with boy toys to notice my bouncing blonde curls. An example: in second grade I brought in one of those glitter wands filled with purple sparkles and twirled it like a baton during show-and-tell. Jason fell asleep at his [...]
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