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
March 5th, 2010
Market Report: Squashed
As I was making my way to the Union Square Farmers’ Market a few days ago, I noticed something: my coat wasn’t fully zipped up, my scarf was loose around my neck, and though there was a breeze in the air, I wasn’t bracing myself every time the wind rattled. February, it seems, is [...]
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, [...]
September 1st, 2009
Grilling Flavor
Click here to watch the first webisode in this series or get the recipe for my grilled Mexican style Corn-on-the-Cob.
August 24th, 2009
Crush-a-belle: Yellow Corn con White Wine
As I sit down to write this post we are waltzing, make that running, through the last days of summer. Now is the time to fire up the grill and eat outdoors, before the waning days of humid haze elude us, and we wish it were once again time to complain about the heat. It [...]
March 22nd, 2009
Bleu Belle
Life has been serving me up the blues lately. First there was the with my asshole-ex. Then Taleggio ate my peacock feather boa and started shitting blue; the vet was amused by my 3 AM, $300 hospital visit. That made one of us. His diagnosis, “Your cat has an affinity for feathers. Keep [...]
October 29th, 2008
Caprese Tomato “Boats”
Caprese Tomato “Boats” (serves 4)
• 10 Perfect Plum Tomatoes• 2 Pork Sausages (half sweet fennel & half hot Italian)• 1 ball Buffalo Mozzarella• 1 wedge Parmigiano-Reggiano• 1 pinch Chili Flakes• 1 clove Garlic• 1 [...]
September 23rd, 2008
Picnic, Perfect
I miss Sara.
So much so that I’ve taken to referring to her by pet names. There’s “my Sweetest” (a nod to our favorite Regina Spektor ballad I like to imitate poorly), “my New” (a classification, as she is my newest, best friend), “my Rodolfo” (Celest gave us both Tocca candles last Christmas. Mine was called [...]
August 30th, 2008
Free Yaself Sista!
The world now knows the fastest man on the planet is Jamaican. Like Celest, I loved watching the Olympics and was tuned in when Usain Bolt won his first gold the very night I met another Jamaican man, on the subway no less. Bolt may be fast, but my Jamaican is free!
I was standing alone [...]
June 18th, 2008
Beet It!
It’s over. We’re over. Il Italiano and I are no more. Finito. I’ll spare you the bloody details…save this: once an Italian honeymoon comes to an end, you’re left with nothing more than a hairy, cocksure bamboccione (the Italian for mamma’s boy)!
My Italiano was true to form. I like a man who likes his family, [...]
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