My New Book—Ice Cream: A Global History

NYC Restaurants Showcase Offerings at Choice Food Event

In these recession-weary times, the prospect of eating all you want from a collection of top flight restaurants for the all-inclusive price of $35 must be impossible to pass up.
Maybe that explains why close to 2,000 people were willing to jam themselves into the 69th Armory at 26th and Lexington on Tuesday for the Village [...]

East Side, West Side: Which Has Better Bagels?

Which New York neighborhood can lay claim to  the best bagels?
There are East Siders who say Ess-a-Bagel on Third Ave and 52nd St (also on 21st Street at Third) produces the best bagels in the city.  West Siders insist that Absolute Bagels on Broadway at 107th St has no equal.  Some swear by H & [...]