NYC-based food blog featuring [mostly healthy] recipes, restaurant recommendations and how-to's
Rene spent a large part of the last two weeks being sick. If you’re not familiar with pancreatitis, it’s exactly as not fun as it sounds. This past weekend he actually had to fast, preceding an equally un-sexy liquid diet of green smoothies and water-based vegetable soups. By Monday he was eating some solid foods again,…
I don’t know if it’s because the weather was heavenly, because it was the first big city stop of our road trip, or because it truly is magical, but I fell completely in love with Charleston. If there was a meter for how many times I said “Oh my God, this is so beautiful” while…
We arrived in Charlotte, NC - the first stop on our road trip down south - late on Christmas day. We were pretty exhausted from the 10-hour drive, and since everything was closed for the holiday, we ended up having dinner at the hotel and going to bed early. The following day, we started out…
New Orleans is notorious for its parties, live music and Creole food, and we certainly got a taste of all three while passing through there on our road trip. There was live music in every bar and on every street corner in the French Quarter, and po’ boys seem to be their equivalent of NYC…
When I heard the surprise announcement at work that we’d have nearly two weeks’ paid time off for the holidays, my first thought was, “Paris.” But realizing I only had a few weeks to buy plane tickets and how costly they’d be this time of year, my dream was quickly shattered. Rene took the opportunity to not-so-subtly…
As fun as brunch may be in theory, even the most sought-after NYC brunches (see Buvette, Joseph Leonard) tend to serve more or less the same menus - basically eggs and waffles for miles. The better restaurants’ eggs and waffles are indeed better, but they’re still eggs and waffles. While it’s comforting to know what…
