My New Book—Ice Cream: A Global History

NY Coffee and Tea Festival Coming Feb. 19-20

Coffee drinker or tea lover? Whatever your preference, the NY Coffee and Tea Festival may make you forget (at least for an hour or two) the awful winter we’re having. Here are the details: NYC’s COFFEE AND TEA FESTIVAL What: The northeast Ultimate Barista Challenge® competition and a VIP tea tasting with two guest Hong [...]

Southern Food: Upper West Side vs New Orleans

The trendy food in NY these days appears to be fried chicken, a classic dish from the south. For a taste of south on the Upper West Side, we have Rack & Soul on Broadway at 109th Street. There you can munch on their crispy-on-the-outside, moist-on-the-inside fried chicken. There’s also some pretty good iced tea [...]

COOKIES: Buy or Bake These Tea Cookies for the Holidays

Dana Jacobi, an acclaimed food writer and cookbook author, will be contributing posts and recipes to Food and Things. Dana has written 10 best-selling cookbooks. Her latest is The Essential Best Foods Cookbook: 225 Irresistible Recipes Featuring the Healthiest and Most Delicious Foods. Let us know how you like this recipe Send us your holiday [...]

Food News: Tea for Good Taste…and Good Health

As a die-hard tea drinker, I like to see tea given its due. Often it’s portrayed as the also-ran to coffee, but these days tea is being lauded as a tasty–and healthy–drink. Says the Daily News in a recent story about the brew: “Hundreds of recent studies show that drinking tea may lower your cholesterol, [...]

Gramercy and Midtown Tea Shops: Two for Tea

As the Times reported last week, two new tea shops have opened and each one has a distinct personality. In Gramercy, on Third Avenue at 17th, Amai Tea and Bake Shop is cozy and warm. Kelli Bernard, the proprietor, keeps her tea in vintage library card catalogues and the place exudes a neighborly feeling. The [...]