Food and Things

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I’m still recovering from too much pumpkin pie. Be back on Monday with more food news for and about the Upper West Side.

November 27th, 2009 | Tags: break, thanksgiving | Category: holidays, thanksgiving, upper west side | Leave a comment

Are you a hacker or a slicer when it comes to carving up your Thanksgiving turkey?  In my house, hackers oversee the dismantling of our Thanksgiving bird.  The turkey meat comes off the carcas in chunks that resemble blocks of moldering wood chips. So the other night, we strolled over to the Broadway and 74th [...]

November 20th, 2009 | Tags: 10023, 10024, 10025, carving, Fairway, Manhattan, thanksgiving, turkey, upper west side | Category: Fairway, New York City, Supermarkets, food markets, grocery stores, holidays, thanksgiving, upper west side | Comments (1)

My blood pressure is already up 20 points just thinking about all the work I have ahead of me to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table.  How I wish someone else—say, a restaurant—was doing T-day duty.
For those of you not required to operate in the Norman Rockwell mode, here are some suggestions for restaurants serving [...]

November 11th, 2009 | Tags: dining out, New York, restaurants, thanksgiving, upper west side | Category: Manhattan, New York City, new york restaurants, restaurants, thanksgiving, upper west side | Leave a comment

Kosher brasserie Le Marais will be hosting a class tomorrow on how to prepare a kosher Thanksgiving meal. Le Marais, 150 W. 46th St. 212 869 0900. (Via The Food Section)

November 9th, 2009 | Tags: 10036, class, Kosher, thanksgiving | Category: Manhattan, New York City, classes, cooking classes, culinary events, midtown, thanksgiving | Leave a comment