Click on the video screen above to watch the fourth installment in a webseries documenting my ladies-only Valentine’s Day soiree. In this webisode, my Tribe gathers around my coffee table to dig in to a love inspired menu of heart-shaped Partridge & Pear Pot Pies, Candied [...]

Click on the video screen above to watch the third installment in a webseries documenting my ladies-only Valentine’s Day soiree. In this webisode, my Tribe joins me in the kitchen to dish up my recipe for Quail Egg Toasts topped with Boccalone ‘nduja, or as described in The Times, “flaming [...]

Click on the video screen above to watch the second installment in a webseries documenting my ladies-only Valentine’s Day soiree. In this webisode, my Tribe comes over to mia cucina to cook, laugh, eat, drink and dish together on V-day. Hand-popping Truffle Popcorn, Erin proves my best help in the kitchen, while [...]

Click on the video screen above to watch the first webisode in a series documenting my ladies-only Valentine’s Day soiree. In this webisode, the cameras follow me to the Union Square Farmers’ Market and inside Union Square Wines where I shop for local, seasonal, real foods to lovingly prepare for my Tribe. Gosh darn, [...]

March 17th, 2010

Champignon, je t’aime

I was walking down Broadway in the historic rain that threatened my birthday celebrations last weekend, when I was suddenly filled with an urge for mushrooms on toast. Enjoyed sometime in my past, the taste of this dish was strong in my mouth, dense, savory and pungent, but the memory itself evaded me. Baffled but [...]

March 9th, 2010

Market Report: Smashed

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 [...]

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 only [...]

March 1st, 2010

Crush-a-Belle: Pickled

Pickles are to New Yorkers as kimchi is to Koreans. Sweet or sour, soft or crunchy, mild or garlicky, the city and the pickle are as entwined as pastrami and rye. The unsung hero of the Lower East Side, as quintessential as the New York slice, the Kosher dill was once a headliner of the [...]

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 10th, 2010

Nesting

There’s snow on the ground, love in the air and wafts of garlic floating down the stairwell of my West Village apartment building. Perched on high in my New York nest, I’m infusing olive oil with garlic. My neighbors tell me they can smell me from the second floor of my fifth floor walk-up. I’ve [...]

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