Last night my husband and I decided to have our long-awaited date night at a cute tapas bar on the upper west side, which will remain nameless, but I have indeed been there before — twice, in fact — and was reasonably pleased both times — enough to go back. I’ll keep this as succinct [...]
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The Quest for a Great Meal Out: Frustrations and Revelations with Restaurants (it’s more complicated than one might think…)
Posted in Asheville restaurants, cooking, Dining out, Food & wine, New York City, Travel on September 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Eating in Trinidad: spice abounds!
Posted in cooking, Food & wine, Travel on August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The legendary Doubles This past summer, I returned to Trinidad for the 3rd time to work/perform as a tutor/cellist for the National Sinfonia Orchestra’s summer workshop. I always have a great time in Trinidad, and being the foodie that I am, I pay close attention to the food of whatever culture in which I find [...]
A Food Lover’s Foray into a “Fad” Diet (that really does seem reasonable)
Posted in cooking, Food & wine, Health on June 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Two things: 1) I love to eat. 2) I am and have been extremely skeptical of anything even remotely resembling fad diets, no-carb funny business, vegan or macro-biotic malarchy, etc. It all just seems so silly. I mean…right? For all serious food-lovers who saw “Julie & Julia,” I think we all nodded (and perhaps giggled) [...]
