Or is it? Popped into a non-starbucks coffee shop, and there is one either on every corner, or in the corner of every vacant lot for drive in. This cast of characters is the norm.
Category Archives: Food
the Ultimate Tool
Yes, it is a Dutch cheese cutter; it slides over the flat edge of the cheese and ejects perfect slices. But in a NY apartment it is the ultimate tool. It’s end is slim enough to function as a screwdriver. It works perfectly as a spatula as it has some give in the flat area …
Restaurant Row – continued
The list row completed.
Too Cute for Words
In the window of a bakery supply store: wedding cake toppers.
A Favorite Day
to be in the City, when most everyone has gone elsewhere, because it is an official holiday. How it manifests is the following: no one else on public transportation all day Saturday and Sunday [well almost no one]. In Trader Joe’s at noon and can count all of us shopping there on both hands and …
The Bird is Back
Well, since the communique that the other bird was morte, I have to believe this bird is a new one. Wrapped up in plastic against the wind and the possible rain, there it hangs in the same cage, tweeting above the tomatoes and garlic scapes.
The Deal
Everyone surely agrees: if you don’t mind that there are only 3300 products from which to choose, and you don’t mind the no-frills display, there is no better place for grocery shopping than Trader Joes. Here in the City it is just as good as where you live. But look at these prices… 2 hothouse …
Doors in the Sidewalk
Tonight it struck me. I have not mentioned the doors in the sidewalk. The restaurant is above ground, but the kitchen and certainly the supplies are in the basement. And often as not, this basement is accessible only via these doors in the sidewalk. You walk over them daily. They look like mid-west hurricane cellar …
The Right Thing
I firmly believe as consumers we should support businesses that ‘do the right thing’. Working at a homeless shelter I came upon boxes of fresh sandwiches made by a company named PRET. I was curious that so much of the food looked like it was freshly made. Next time I needed to pick up a …
LOL
These adverts are on the walls in Penn Station, to amuse while waiting for the train. ‘Cute guy on the subway was checking out the map behind you.'[if you happen to sit in front of the subway map… then when someone across the aisle tries to read it, it is as if they are intently …