I swear I do not have a spy at the New York Times. But we have been thinking alike, a lot, lately. Last Tuesday I posted a recipe for Scallops over Creamed Corn and the Timesfollowed with their own version of the dish on Wednesday: Scallops with Cream and Basil. Over the weekend I posted a recipe for Grilled Pepperjack [...]
September 28th, 2007
Surprise: Gemma is a bit of a Gem!
I consider Gemma a potential new “neighborhood joint,” even though it’s on The Bowery and I live in the West Village. Basically anything new and purportedly special that opens up south of 14th Street is a place I will claim as my own, if it lives up to its hype. My experience tonight at Gemma [...]
September 28th, 2007
Cupcake Crackdown
To my mind, “the cupcake problem” as reported in the Times the other day, has less to do with hyping up or cracking down on the proliferation of cupcakistas eager to snag one of these showboats for frosting (even if it means 20 minute lines), and everything to do with the most basic of human [...]
September 26th, 2007
A Cold Shoulder to that Iced Café
I’m a New Yorker; I know what it means to pay for quality. It’s not that the iced cappuccino was $4.25 a pop, it’s that it wasn’t good enough to be $4.25 a pop. Though the leaves have begun to turn shades of sunset, it still felt like summer in the city on Monday as [...]
September 26th, 2007
Scallops Encore
Seems I’m not the only one with scallops on the brain today! The NY Times just posted a recipe that calls for poaching the sweet creatures in cream and topping the dish with fresh basil. The heavy comfort of the cream and butter, the sweet basil that reminds of the summer that’s passing away…it might [...]
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