Archive for May, 2009
Dining Out and About (Paris): Crêpes at Breizh Café
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009In principle, it seems so simple: A visit to Paris = eating great crêpes. But after one too many disappointing, pre-made, desultory, floppy and/or overly buttery pancakes, I began to despair of ever finding a good, nay great, nay excellent, crêpe in Paris. Good thing I read Chowhound. Posters there tipped me off to Breizh Café, a [...]
Recipe for happiness: Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, NYC
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009The more curmudgeonly among us would call an entire store devoted to cookbooks a recipe for bankruptcy, but to me it’s sheer happiness. As you might have guessed from reading this blog, I LOVE cookbooks. As an extension of this love, I ADORE cookbook stores. Too bad they’re so scarce. I’ve already filled you in [...]
A year in a French market: Grey Paree
Thursday, May 14th, 2009May seems to beckon people to Paris, if my recent steady stream of house-guests is any evidence. Too bad the skies have been grey and greyer. As a steady rain drips down right now, I am rethinking the old adage: May showers bring June flowers.The humidity is not good for my plumbing problems (which, after [...]
Dining Out and About (Brooklyn): Buttermilk brunch
Monday, May 11th, 2009I usually don’t like writing about a restaurant unless I’ve eaten there a few times. But I had so much fun at Brooklyn’s Buttermilk Channel that I’m breaking my own rule. I first heard about this Carroll Gardens hot spot when Frank Bruni’s (generally positive) review appeared in the NYT, and I was thrilled to brunch there with friends [...]
Dining Out and About (New York City): At Home with the Mets at Citi Field
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Greetings, mes amis! I’m back! Apologies for the sudden absence. Perhaps you thought I was just being a lazy blogger, but I was actually away in New York and Washington DC. (I didn’t mention my trip to you because of paranoia that someone would somehow discover my address, break into my apartment, and steal my [...]