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 this [...]
March 1st, 2010
Crush-a-Belle: Pickled
February 24th, 2010
Pizza Field Notes, by Celest
Whenever my dad (a gregarious MexTexican) comes to visit, his favorite thing to do is ask every random person he meets what they think is the best slice of pizza in New York City. He asks everyone. Cabbies. Bartenders. Bodega owners. He’s often eating a slice while he asks the guy, who just sold it [...]
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 [...]
August 4th, 2009
Crush-a-belle: Madam’s Gin & Jam
I experienced my first crush in first grade. His name was Jason, he was the captain of our kickball team and he wore Transformers sneakers. We’ve both moved on since (though to be fair, I’m not sure he even noticed me, much less drafted me for kickball), but that hasn’t stopped me from falling “in [...]
June 4th, 2009
Mr. Niceguy
I’ve been invited to a lot of A-list food events of late. So has Mr. Niceguy.
Over the past two years I’ve been posting on my blog at least once weekly, but it’s only in the past two months that I’ve been awarded entry at several hob-knobby foodie fêtes round town. Sometimes I’m directed to the [...]
May 29th, 2009
Go Green! A Conscientious Dining List, (Part II) by Erin
11. Best Catering Company Gone Restaurant: The Green Table
Located in the Chelsea Markets and associated with The Cleaver Co., this spot seats famously intimate meals with the likes of the Dali Lama and Martin Scorcese. Known for their eye-candy and taste bud-pleasing food that satisfies. They are one of the top three green caterers [...]
May 23rd, 2009
Go Green! A Conscientious Dining List, by Erin
In honor of our nation’s new frontier , I’m doing my part to change the country the best way I know how…by dining out…green! Okay, I know the words “green,” “sustainable,” and “local” are thrown around as frequently as Rachel Ray’s “Yum-o!” these days, but this list promises to inform and correct any misconceptions about [...]
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