“Strangely, for all the breathless press about the boom in food delivery services, there aren’t many articles on the exploitation that comes with them (food writers, bless their hearts, tend to get caught up in the minutiae of bread absorption rates and flavor-mixing quotients when reviewing services; the destruction of human potential often gets lost …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
If It Looks Like..
If the leaf looks like a marigold leaf, and the flower bud looks like a marigold flower bud, then most likely it is not parsley. The vendor in Chinatown, called it Japanese, said I could eat it raw; weighed out $.15 cents worth for me. A novel addition to my salad, just toss it in …
Flying Attire
As I child I experienced airplane travel: bars in the rear of the plane, red carpet at the bottom of the stairs covering the tarmac, well dressed, gloved and hatted passengers served by tall, slender women in chic uniforms. How times have changed. As i waited for the influx of the passenger hoard on my …
At JFK Airport: All to Myself
It bears repeating, that as I was growing up in the West, believing the Ford doctrine that everyman [woman] should have their own car, thankfully someone else in the East was focused on public transportation. The fastest, most efficient way to arrive at JFK, New York’s largest airport is to take the E train. Perhaps …
Fish Shaped Cones
Ever astute reader A sent me the following article, which coincided nicely with my planned trip to Chinatown. So I visited this little shop and while inside photographed the product. I arrived as it had just opened for the day’s business; it smelled wonderful. There were already 7 people waiting to pay $7 for …
Non Sequitur
One of my favorite bloggers with a life-style presence inserted her ‘favorite bra’ between putting up beans and weeding the garden. This fits that sort of segway. For a very long time have looked for tubeless WC rolls. Have always thought they made lots of sense. but where I shopped no one had them until …
The Ultimate City Fantasy on a HOT Summer’s Day
A friend with a house and pool in The Hamptons. ‘Where the wealthy go to play”.
An Antique FireBox
Usually am walking East on this street, but when I walked West I saw this box attached to a pole. it had been there all along, I just had not seen it.
An Unexpected Memorial Wall
Stepped out of the train at a new-to-me-stop and discovered this informal wall of names for those who perished September 11, 2001. Clearly someone typed the names out on address labels and laboriously put them on the tiles. It happened to be the weekend of the remembrance so I was doubly surprised.
The Public Library – Rose Room
which is the main reading room at the 5th Avenue location of the City library. What a magnificent building. May the universal concept of a library, that lending of books is free, endure forever. This reading room is nearly the size of a football field – how ironic we use that comparison and open to …