
Chevalier
It’s time for the second instalment in my project that has me reading New York restaurant reviews and recreating one of the dishes in...

Untitled at the Whitney
Pete Wells writes five whole paragraphs about Untitled before describing any food. I picked the New York Times food critic to start off...

The most important meal of the day
The thing that makes New York City such an exciting place to live is access; access to an entire world of culture. A story I’ve told...

Baseball is back! That means it's time for taking tiny details WAY too seriously once again
In honor of pitchers and catchers reporting for duty to spring training, I thought I'd repost a lengthy pieceI wrote about a tiny part of...

Grub Street's 101 Best (New) Cheap Eats list mapped
New York Magazine has released a new list of some of the best places to get a cheap bite in New York. Black Seed bagels, which you can...

A Mandrill at the Bronx Zoo
This is a mandrill at the Bronx Zoo. Oh, I already said that. Mandrills are impressively colorful for primates. The males have blue...
Ponder what I'm pondering
This is my blog. I'll do my best to keep these posts short. Nobody has time to read another long, blathering blog, and I wouldn't want to...