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I love nothing more than a good old New York coffee shop. Maybe it’s because these neighborhood institutions are disappearing fast. It’s definitely not the food but the cozy, everyone-in-the-’hood-eats-here atmosphere.
Serious Eats has a great piece on food at work. At the New York publishing office where I used to toil, my bosses were serious foodies, so we ate lots, and ate well. One of my co-workers maintained a special stash just for me of chocolate covered raisins from Sahadi’s in Brooklyn — dark chocolate [...]
My friend Myra turned me on to the Campaign for Real Milk. Then yesterday, I traveled out to the North Fork of Long Island to Connie’s house (of the late, lamented Connie’s Bake Shop in Mattatuck) and low and behold, Connie had a quart of the stuff on hand.
Yesterday, my friend Stephanie and I were desperate for a restroom. We were on Avenue A, scoping out various unappealing options when we stumbled into Samba-Le on Avenue A at 2nd Street. We had a few minutes to kill before seeing the Vagina Monologues at at the Agni Gallery.
Yesterday, the Times waxed ecstatic about red velvet cake. To me, the quintessential southern dessert — and one of the great food experiences –is coconut layer cake. Not that I don’t love a big slab of red velvet, but the crunch of the coconut and a buttery icing swaddling a coconut layer cake can’t be [...]
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