My New Book—Ice Cream: A Global History
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Especially in this down economy, restaurants are hungering for your business on Valentine’s Day. On the Upper West Side, there’s a bumper crop of places to go.
I personally would rather skip the whole hyped-up Valentine’s Day eating out thing and prepare a cozy dinner at home. Why brave the mobs at the restaurants, the often [...]
Ice Cream is a great Valentine’s Day treat, especially when served as ice cream sandwiches or with Valentine’s Day chocolate heart cookies. Ice cream can also be sandwiched between the chocolate heart cookies.
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, [...]
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 [...]
Alas, Fiamma, which offered cooking classes last Valentine’s Day, is no more.
But other chefs have stepped into the breach, according to Gothamist, which has compiled a couple of choices for cooking-loving lovers to learn how to wield a whisk on V-Day.
[Y]ou might consider Chef Alex Ureña’s cooking class on February 7th at Pamplona, where he’ll [...]
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