Dining Out and About
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013Living overseas (and by overseas I mean anywhere outside of New York City) there’s one thing I miss the most. A bagel. With cream cheese. And lox. But not just any bagel — I want one with heft, with chew, with a crust that almost crackles between my teeth. I want the schmear to be [...]
La Table d’Aki, Paris
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012The last Tuesday dinner I had in Paris was at La Table d’Aki, a 16-seat bijou of a restaurant near the Boulevard St-Germain. This is “French food cooked by a Japanese chef,” the chef/owner Akihiro Horokoshi told me. Every bite was exquisite. You can read more about my meal in the Bites column of the [...]
Côte d’Azur and London
Monday, August 6th, 2012It has been a summer of planes, trains, and automobiles, of overnight bags and mini-sized toiletries. I had planned to document all my voyages but, to my surprise, I was too busy actually, you know, enjoying my travels. Imagine that! Instead of an avalanche of photographs, I’ve got a flurry of snapshots. Instead of detailed blog posts, [...]
La Colombe d’or
Saturday, July 21st, 2012If you arrive in the sharp heat of a summer day, you understand immediately why they flocked here, the greats like Picasso, Matisse, Leger and Renoir. On the Côte d’Azur, the sun seems brighter, the sky bluer, the shadows darker, the light more dazzling. If you stare long enough, the wrought-iron balconies turn Cubist, the [...]
Land of sandwich
Thursday, July 12th, 2012On our drive from Vermont to Cape Cod, we kept seeing signs proclaiming “Sandwich.” Of course they made me hungry. I was a little disappointed, however, to discover they referred to a town in Massachusetts, rather than lunch. Before we embarked upon our New England vacation, my friend, Katia, asked me to document my sandwich consumption on [...]
Green Mountain vacation
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012I never thought I’d say this, but jet lag is a marvelous thing when it wakens you at 5.23 to a soft and dewy Vermont summer morning. The sun, which will set your face on fire later in the day, is still gentle, low in the sky. The air feels like silk pajamas, cool against [...]
Life, lemons, lemon tart
Friday, June 22nd, 2012There’s a lot of stress and anxiety over here as Moving Day approaches (er, tomorrow). But why contemplate the unpleasantries of life when you can dwell on a lovely afternoon of tea and tarts? After all, when life hands you lemons… Jacques Genin’s tarte au citron has a crust so tender it crumbles at the mere [...]
The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012Journalist, cookbook author, cooking teacher, former restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune, Patricia Wells‘s name has long been synonymous with good food. In 1984, she published her travel book, The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris, which was quickly recognized as an authoritative volume for gourmet travelers. Now she has updated and refreshed the book [...]
A world of pintxos
Friday, June 1st, 2012San Sebastián has a beach shaped like a scallop shell, a bevy of Belle Epoque buildings lining the promenade, a baroque church with a facade as intricate as old lace. But I came here for only one reason: to eat. In the past decade, this Spanish resort town on the Atlantic coast has become a [...]
Carte postale: Pizza dreams
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012After so many years of dreaming, drooling, eating, dreaming and drooling over the artichoke pizza at Pizza Chic, I finally branched out last week and ordered something else. This caprese pizza piled tomatoes, basil, and fresh mozzarella on a warm, chewy-crisp crust, a marvel of simple, perfect ingredients drizzled with fine olive oil. Ladies and [...]
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