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Ice Cream Fanatics: The New Amsterdam Market’s 3rd Annual Ice Cream Sunday is Aug. 19. If you’re in NYC, stop by for ice cream from some great purveyors—plus, I’ll be signing (and selling) copies of my book, Ice Cream: A Global History. The event’s from 12pm-4pm. I’ll be perched in a booth amongst the ice [...] Curious about what the the 17th century Dutch ate around the time Henry Hudson first spotted Manhattan in 1609? Then walk across Central Park to the Met Museum. There, you’ll find a small exhibit of some of Vermeer’s masterpieces. Aside from being in the company of some of the world’s greatest works of art, you’ll [...] For a totally solid breakfast place—nothing fancy here despite the name—try Elite coffee shop on Columbus at 68th. That’s where I met my friends Ron and Ellie the other day for a late breakfast. My lox was surprisingly fresh and delicious, only a slight cut below Barney Greengrass. Ellie pronounced her omelet with tomatoes and [...] My hubby was dying to see the autumn foliage. Since I have a brother to visit in the Green Mountain State, we figured we’d pop up to Vermont and do the leaf peeper thing. What we didn’t count on was 85 degree weather. It’s been so warm here that the leaves barely sport even a [...] In the process of renovating one of our bathrooms, the contractor found some moldering newspaper behind the tile wall, dating from Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1936. Yellow and crumbling, this page from the New York Star, featured the following food story: “Tony Easts ‘Em Shell and All.’ The story revealed that recent Italian immigrant,Anthony Laforenza, a [...] |
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