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Wedding Foods at Astor Center March 11 Featuring Momofuko, Landmarc, Other Purveyors

Eat, drink, get married. Wedding bells are ringing at the Astor Center March 11 which is displaying festive wedding-friendly foods from the likes of Momofuku Milk Bar, Ronni-Sue’s Chocolates and The Cleaver Company.
Could one of these purveyors be your dream wedding caterer?
Tastings of food and champagne will be offered.
One couple will win a hands-on cooking [...]

Upper West Side: Zabar’s Gives Valentine’s Day a Jewish Twist

Chocolate babka? Blackout cake?  Zabar’s, the Upper West Side fancy food emporium, is offering up a range of Valentine’s goodies—from chocolates to cookies.  But if you want a Jewish theme to your Valentine’s Day celebration, the Jewish-style deli is enhancing the traditional mix of chocolate roses and heart-shaped confections with babka and bagels. Yes, dahlink, [...]

Recipe: White Chocolate Clusters for Valentine’s Day

Your Valentine’s Day honey should appreciate these delicious candies–White Chocolate Clusters.  You won’t be able to eat just one (or two)! Cassie Berkowitz, a talented recent pastry school graduate and Chef Renee Marton’s colleague, has created them.
White Chocolate Clusters
Yields 4 clusters
INGREDIENTS
1 cup white chocolate
1/3 cup dried cherries or cranberries
1/3 cup pistachios
Optional:
¼ cup white chocolate, for [...]

Upper West Side: Halloween Events On Tap at Natural History Museum Saturday

What’s the best thing about Halloween. Is it the candy? Of course! But there are also all those cute little kids decked out in their Halloween costumes. Today, the Museum of Natural History previewed its Halloween daytime activities for kids—and cuteness abounded. (See more photos below)
On Saturday Oct. 31 from 2pm to 5 pm, cartoon [...]

Halloween Recipe: Candy Corn Cupcakes To Wow Your Trick-or-Treaters

What could be a better Halloween treat than cupcakes crowned with candy corn “teeth?”  Try these goodies from Upper West Side Chef Renee Marton on your young (and grownup!) ghosts and goblins:

Witch’s Teeth Halloween Cupcakes
Makes one dozen cupcakes.
INGREDIENTS
1 28-ounce can pumpkin, drained in a paper liner or towel lined strainer, for one hour
3 eggs
¾ [...]