Lilac: Eat it Up! from Kimberly Belle on Vimeo. Watch me review my all-time favorite chocolate shop in the city, and pick yourself up some black & white dipped matzoh or a chocolate bunny (or two) for the holidays. Happy Passover. Happy Easter. Happy Spring, FOOD Mavens. Eat it Up!
April 19th, 2011
Lilac: Eat it Up!
November 24th, 2010
Pumpkin & Electric Trifles (both)
There are many things that get a FOOD Maven excited; finding a new imported cheese, revamping an old recipe, discovering the latest autumnal delectables to hit the farmers’ market, just to name a few. There is also a certain holiday that gets not only my foodie brain swinging into high gear, but my foodie mouth [...]
November 10th, 2010
Bacon, Paired
Bacon’s smoky, salty kiss has long been liberated from the confines of the breakfast table and has made its way into everything from hearty stews to gooey chocolate chip cookies. Like salt, bacon is also a flavor enhancer that lends a unique earthiness to everything it touches. Okay, let’s be honest – everything it touches. [...]
July 16th, 2010
More S’mores
I’ve said before that tomatoes, corn on the cob and and watermelon are my quintessential tastes of summer. They’re the barometers by which I gage summer’s seasonal produce, and they’re the foodie taste sensations I covet the rest of the year long. But I have also culled a list of summertime sweet treats that reside [...]
January 8th, 2010
Naughty or Nice?
Uncle Tony is not my real uncle. He’s my cousins’ great uncle, but we celebrate Christmas Eve together as one big not quite Italian-American family every year in his brother’s (my cousins’ grandfather’s) basement. Phew, got that? It’s quite a mouthful. Tony’s pushing 90, but by all appearances he is a classic bull, or better [...]
December 15th, 2009
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Anything
I love anything made with the classic chocolate-peanut butter flavor combo. Anything. But because I avoid eating processed foods, I’m constantly trying to recreate the joy that is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. In my kitchen, I’ve tooled around with frozen chocolate-peanut butter ice cream sandwiches, chocolate-peanut butter cupcakes filled with Nutella, a chocolate-peanut butter [...]
November 10th, 2009
Crush-a-belle: The Darkest Dark Chocolate
Okay, I’m officially over the Fall Back time change. Yes, it was great to wake up after an indulgent Halloween feast having logged an extra hour of sleep, but now I just find myself fading earlier. Around 4 o’clock, when I can sense that the sun is about to go down, my eyelids feel heavier, [...]
April 17th, 2008
Candy and Corvettes, by Erin
Despite having lived in the world’s greatest culinary melting pot for 11 years now, despite a long line of Italian grandmothers preceding me, and despite operating one of the hottest catering companies around, I admit my tastes and food preferences are often less than refined. Kimberly scolds me for this. Even as a small child and adolescent, [...]
March 17th, 2008
East of 3rd & South of 14th, by Celest
I am so spoiled. Truly. I live in an enviably hip neighborhood where everything I really care about is close, convenient and stylish. My tree-lined street is dotted with a couple cool bars, a clean bodega and the two boutiques I need to keep my wardrobe updated: Tokio 7 and Barbara Feinman. It’s heaven. Because of this, and [...]
December 20th, 2007
Cheese, Chocolate and Cream
Three of my favorite delights! Indulgences? Sure. A little naughty…I always hope so. A meal comprised of all three? Yes, please! In fact, I had just that, at a new place in Hell’s Kitchen on Saturday night. Casellula is an easy-to-love place with a hard-to-say name. Whatever. A place that traffics almost entirely in luscious dairy-driven [...]
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