For just a moment, let’s forget about the Wall St. bailout, and instead think about cupcakes. They’re so innocent, covered in sweet frosting, like a little cake wrapped up just for us. Consider the bakers, who wake up before sunrise and make all the cupcakes for us to eat. Now those are good, honest people. [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 28, 2008
Butcher Shop, Manhattan
In a taxi heading east on 38th St, I passed by this butcher shop and immediately loved it. On a street pockmarcked with nameless shops hawking cheap phones, luggage, umbrellas, and other worthless crap, Esposito Pork Shop stands out for its authenticity…and its depth of swine, beef and game offerings. Esposito Pork Shop. 500 Ninth [...]
September 28, 2008
Brunch and the City
Brunch on the weekends in New York is automatic. A special occasion or holiday is unnecessary to brunch, because it’s just what you do. The difference between getting breakfast and brunching is this: you eat later, you drink mimosas, bellinis, or blood mary’s, you order an extra plate of pancakes “for the table.” After the [...]
September 26, 2008
Social Diner
I’ve eaten out alot recently, albeit too much (at least according to the scale at my gym). I can’t help it, I’m a social diner and come fall the restaurant circuit revs up. Autumn is one of my favorite times to be out and about in the city, not only because the air turns crisp [...]
September 22, 2008
Art and Eats in Williamsburg
Today I went to Brooklyn to run an errand, and ended up having one of the most delicious ice cream experiences of my entire life. In fact, the whole afternoon was pretty awesome. As I walked the streets of Williamsburg, I noticed there is a lot of really cool art on display in the [...]
September 17, 2008
Livin’ the High Life
Oh, these days feel like one endless parade of good times: Iraq, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Afghanistan, Iran, Galveston, Britney, Lindsay, my flattened 401K, Tom Jones and his new CD, $65 entrees and dead bugs in my package of dried spaghetti that I JUST opened. Is there any good news out there? Why does everything seem [...]
September 14, 2008
Hawaiians and their Beloved Pig
I could talk about how Hawaii is so beautiful my first thought is always that it seems FAKE. I suppose that is what you get when you stick a New Yorker in a real tropical paradise. I could rhapsodize about the orchids and hibiscus that grow like weeds along the single road leading around the lush, [...]
September 9, 2008
Expectations Fully Exceeded at 5 Ninth
In New York, it’s easy to be disappointed by restaurants… especially restaurants in the Meatpacking District. It’s a trendy, almost silly neighborhood, completely overexposed, and full of beautiful restaurants where $18 cocktails and $42 entrees are de rigeur. I never go here, unless it’s some fashion event where my cocktails are free.
September 4, 2008
Aloha, Hawai’i
Tomorrow morning I fly to Kaua’i, a place I consider so magical it would be sacrilege to even try to describe it in less than 1000 words. I’ll be attending the wedding of my best friend Meleana. Meleana, a handbag designer, was born and raised on a banana farm above one of the most awe-inspiring [...]
