August 7, 2008
Been making a pilgrimage to the beach every Friday for the past few weeks now. It’s so easy- I just hop on the A train to Far Rockaway and I’m there in less than an hour. PARTAY! This also means that I’ve been eating at the Wharf. They’ve never let me down, not once, since […]
August 5, 2008
My friend Naoko was in town for a few weeks on business from Tokyo and we spent a lot of time together eating and drinking. We’re so dangerous together- it’s like we feed each other’s food/drink addictions, we don’t stop. So Naoko knew a sushi chef at this new place called the Greenwich Grill in […]
July 31, 2008
As you may have read from earlier, my friend Khoi was in town yesterday and we basically ate and drank all day. Umm, it’s 3pm now and yup, I’m still hungover. LOSER. So back to the Food Marathon. Met back up with Khoi and his friend (“and coworker”) George at The Modern for a fancy […]
I’m nauseous. My head is pounding. HOW did I get home??? What did I do last night? Oh, I remember. Khoi was in town. Bits and pieces of the day are coming back to me very slowwwly. Cheeseburgers, calamari, ceviche. Beer, wine, sake, champagne. More beer. More sake. Vomitous. Khoi is one of my closest […]
July 30, 2008
So I’ve decided that my days of blogging virginity will be cast into the past, and what better way to hail the occasion and set the mood than with a blog about that most ancient of aphrodisiacs, seafood. As a precursor to a Lobster roll-centric New England road trip (posts coming forthwith) that I planned […]
July 29, 2008
Met up with Kiwa for lunch at Katsuhama to get our tonkatsu on, and after a meal of fried meats and julienned cabbage, we needed something sweet. We stopped into the pseudo stylish bento place Yushi Bento Bar (think untz, untz, untz) and found these cute little cups of panna cotta for $2! There were […]
July 10, 2008
Tessa Liebman, private NYC chef and foodie extraordinaire, has been doing a lot of food research in Mexico lately. Now she’s back and has launched and AMAZING new business I think you should all know about called “CHIDA”. Chida (which means “cool” in Mexican kid slang) serves up “Nieves” (snows), a frozen treat that lies […]
July 9, 2008
I had to see what all the hype was about, at least once…so I joined the massive sweaty crowd this year in Coney Island at the Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won by eating 64 hot dogs in just over 10 minutes. Disgusting and amazing, all at the same time.
July 5, 2008
The New Amsterdam Market was held for the 3rd time last weekend at the historic site of the now defunct Fulton Fish Market at South Street Seaport. The New Amsterdam Public is a group that is backing the effort to turn this site into a permanent forum for local purveyors. The market featured tastings, goods […]
July 2, 2008
Johnny Iuzzini makes the most beautiful desserts I think I’ve ever photographed. Seriously, they were so stunning that as I left our shoot on the patio of Jean Georges, I couldn’t wait to get home and look at them. It’s dishes like these that really make me love what I do. (And they were DELICIOUS […]