NYC

Just Like at the Coffee Shop (Currant-Buttermilk Scones)

Posted to Breakfast on the topic of Food on the topic of NYC on the topic of Recipes on 4 April 2009, with 6 comments so far.

I’m so delighted to have just bought a new cookbook.
When I first moved to New York in 2003, as my only reader will know, I got a  job working at a Soho coffee shop called Once Upon a Tart. Owned by a tall Frenchman given to double entendres, Once Upon a Tart kept me busy [...]

Adieu, Holidays

Posted to Images on the topic of NYC on 12 January 2009, with no comments so far.

Window @ Bergdorf Goodman, 12/24/08

Week 2: Meat, Wine, Wool, Music.

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of NYC on 22 December 2008, with no comments so far.

I keep forgetting to take pictures of my food. Maybe that means I am growing out of a ridiculous habit. Or maybe it only means that the food is more delicious, now, too delicious to stop and photograph.
There was lots of watercress left over from the tea party last week, so I made a creamy [...]

How To Cook (and Dress) A Wolf

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of Books on the topic of Food on the topic of NYC on 15 December 2008, with 2 comments so far.

These are the busiest weeks of the year, these couple before Christmas.
I sort of like it.
On Sunday, A— and I threw a clothing swap at our place. We had a dozen ladies over. She made cinnamon buns and I made tea sandwiches (Pernod-marinated fennel and green apple and minted radish, and lox and cream cheese [...]

Rhapsody in Gray

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of Food on the topic of NYC on 11 December 2008, with no comments so far.

“Conducive to study” is what we’d have called a day like this back at Reed: tiny, pricking raindrops falling from the sky like cold needles, the whole outside a blanket of dampness and gray. It makes you want to go the the library, make a bright corner, keep dry with old books, and dose yourself [...]

Yes, Please Tax Our Bags

Posted to Food on the topic of NYC on the topic of Politics on 7 November 2008, with 1 comment so far.

Three cheers for Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to charge six cents for every plastic shopping bag given out in the city. Even (especially?) if it drives down plastic bag use rather than raising a lot of money for the city, it will still be a big victory in my opinion.
I’ve always been appalled by NYC’s avid [...]

Union Square Greenmarket, October 24

Posted to Images on the topic of NYC on the topic of Politics on 30 October 2008, with no comments so far.

I’m endorsing Obama endorsing arugula.

Mug Woman, Mug Man

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of NYC on 20 October 2008, with no comments so far.

This morning, something happened to me that was straight out of a kicky ’90s music video.
Picture if you will: A brilliant fall morning. The young lady emerges from the door to her building, in her fall jacket, laptop bag clapping against one thigh, teacher-bag clapping against the other, and in her hands she’s balancing a [...]

Reading Frenzy, and Thoughts: Why New Yorkers Love and Hate to Read About New York

Posted to Art on the topic of Books on the topic of NYC on the topic of Readings on the topic of Videos on 16 October 2008, with no comments so far.

I’m in a reading frenzy recently: two thick novels in the last ten days. I inhaled ‘Then We Came to the End,’ by Joshua Ferris, and then moved immediately into ‘The Emperor’s Children,’ by Claire Messud. Purely by coincidence, each novel features an unstable character whose catalytic effects on the plot are driven by an [...]

Book Review: ‘A Map of Home,’ by Randa Jarrar

Posted to Magazines on the topic of NYC on the topic of Readings on the topic of Work on 24 September 2008, with no comments so far.

I have a book review of Randa Jarrar’s coming-of-age novel, A Map of Home, out today in the L Magazine, NYC’s downtown freebie.
I’ve admired the L Magazine since it started up in ‘03-ish, and I am super psyched to be in its pages.