June 27, 2008
My friend Stephen is a professional gardener at the Conservatory Garden in Central Park and he invited me to a sweet little soiree they were having on Wednesday. If you haven’t been, it’s a spectacular garden on 105th Street and 5th Avenue that is filled with summer blooms right now. A wine and cheese party […]
June 26, 2008
This week I went to a champagne reception at Adour Alain Ducasse, the 6 month old restaurant inside the St. Regis Hotel in NYC. I was there taking pictures of a reception for supporters of the James Beard Foundation, and in walks Mel Brooks. Everyone of course wanted me to take their picture with him. […]
June 25, 2008
We waited 2 hours for a table last night at Florent, and it was worth it. They were all out of artichoke which was highly disappointing, but my veggie burger on an english muffin with tomato basil mayo made up for it. As usual, the place was peacefully packed with people of all ages and […]
June 19, 2008
Ok, last plug for Aya’s awesome play oph3lia, and the benefit I’m helping put together tonight. But I’m especially excited because we just secured a gift certificate for two to Jean-George (the formal room! He’s one of my favorites! A 4-star establishment!). So come out tonight at 7:30pm for the show, afterparty with the cast, […]
June 17, 2008
I try to buy as much organic dairy as possible because I am worried about hormones in my food, but it gets very expensive. One item I always buy organic however, is EGGS. I want my eggs hormone free, without antibiotics, free range and local when possible. I pay about $4 in my local grocery […]
June 16, 2008
Here’s a little schill for my lady Aya Ogawa’s brilliant 3-part play which opened at HERE in SoHo last week. I’m organizing a benefit evening for her company, knife inc., this Thursday which each and every one of you need to come out for. Here’s why: for $50, you get the play, then the after […]
June 15, 2008
Over the weekend, 3 friends and I went to stay for a night on Garden of Eve Farm, an organic farm on eastern Long Island in Riverhead, near the Hamptons. Two hours from the city, you’ll find a beautiful piece of property right on the Long Island Sound run by a lovely farmer named Eve […]
June 12, 2008
Chef Jacques Freres (pictured below) has been perfecting his souffles for years. I’m not even into souffles and I was swooned by his. Swooned! As stated on their website, Capsouto Freres is a classic French bistro housed in a former spice warehouse by the Hudson and referred to as the “soufflé sanctuary.†While the menu […]
En route to Coney Island this past weekend, I stopped over in Brighton Beach, which is filled with combination English/Cyrillic storefronts like this video/bookstore: We decided to try Cafe Kashkar, an Uyghur place written about in the Village Voice and elsewhere. Surrounded by Russian restaurants and large, hilariously-stocked grocery stores like M&I International Foods, Kashkar […]
Little did we know when we walked into the Oyster Bar last night that it would be in the midst of a 3 week-long festival for fresh herring! I am reading now that the GCOB does this every year, to celebrate the first “nieuwe maatjes†herring of the season from the Netherlands. The herring came […]