June 2005 Archive
El BocadilloFood and the City: All Things Sweet
Food and the City: Intro
Food and the City: Midscale and Lunch Restaurants
Food and the City: Upscale Restaurants
Le Ticket Resto
Mille-feuille Artichaut et Chèvre
NYC: Readers' Guide and Get-Together!
Off to New York City!
Petit pain au pavot pour les tricheuses
Premières Groseilles
Sadaharu Aoki
Un Sandwich pour le Dessert
June 30, 2005
Food and the City: Upscale Restaurants
During my stint in NYC, I had the occasion to dine at a few restaurants that I would qualify as upscale -- Jean Georges, Blue Hill and Babbo -- a very pleasant experience I will now gladly relate. Jean Georges The first in this series was Jean Georges, to which I went for lunch. I was very excited about it, having heard a lot about the Alsatian...
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June 29, 2005
Food and the City: Midscale and Lunch Restaurants
Now that my sweet NYC memories are safely tucked away (leave it to me to put dessert first, always!), we have quite a bit of savory ground to cover, and I will start with a little batch of midscale/lunch places: 'Ino, Freemans, Pearl Oyster Bar and Teany (see end of post for coordinates). 'Ino On Friday night I stepped out of the plane, a bit d...
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June 27, 2005
Food and the City: All Things Sweet
In my mind, one of the most defining (and endearing) features of American cuisine is its shameless, over-the-top sweet tooth: giant chunky cookies with a tender heart, proud muffins that could feed a family of four, voluptuous cakes slathered with frosting, life buoy sized doughnuts, velvety ice-cream loaded with goodies... I love them all, and I...
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June 25, 2005
Food and the City: Intro
[Photography by Maxence] What is it with a city that makes you fall head-over-heels for it? Is it the energy that it glows with, is it the sunshine, is it the fabulous food, the designer boutiques, the million little streets just a few blocks from the skyscrapers, the feeling of being in a movie, the meeting of like-minded friends, the walking, t...
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June 17, 2005
Off to New York City!
Well, this is it! All packed and excited and ready to go, with my print-out of the C&Z readers' guide to NYC, a tasty snack for the plane (Amanda Hesser's good advice was not lost on this girl) and dreams of skylines and designer stores and art collections and brownstones and marquees (and bialys and cupcakes). And if you are in NYC this Sunday ...
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June 15, 2005
Petit pain au pavot pour les tricheuses
[Cheater's Poppyseed Roll] In September of last year, when Maxence and I were spending some time in Alsace, we went shopping once in a supermarket in Munster. Yes, we did, can you imagine that? I mean -- what fun! Actually, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that on vacation, I'm always happy to browse the aisles of local grocery stores, studying...
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June 14, 2005
Le Ticket Resto
And today, I thought I would share with you a small and mundane element from the everyday French office life. A food-related element, that goes without saying. In France, the set of laws that governs the work environment, le code du travail, forbids you to eat in the rooms where you work (ahem -- no, I don't know how those crumbs got into my key...
June 13, 2005
Premières Groseilles
Red currants hold a special place in my heart as the perfect companion to peaches and nectarines and a dash of whipping cream in my mother's summer fruit salads -- preferably enjoyed in the cool shade of the garden, on a table with a cherry-patterned tablecloth secured by pretty star-shaped weight clips, should a little breeze pick up. I also li...
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June 9, 2005
Sadaharu Aoki
Having heard many great things about Parisian-Japanese pastry chef Sadaharu Aoki, I was very eager to taste his edible creations for myself. I had often admired them at the Lafayette Gourmet store (okay, now I make it sound like I spend my life there when really I don't, I go home to sleep and shower), but since I don't usually buy pastries unles...
June 7, 2005
NYC: Readers' Guide and Get-Together!
Two weeks ago, I posted about my impending trip to NYC, and asked for your advice and suggestions. Little did I know how overwhelming the response would be! Dozens upon dozens of recommendations for restaurants, stores, bars, sights, etc. Such a wealth of knowledge could not go uncompiled, so I worked on putting together a little C&Z Readers' Gui...
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June 6, 2005
El Bocadillo
It may have become apparent by now just how much I love sandwiches, and it is always cause for elation to discover a new source for superior sandwich indulgence. Bellota-Bellota is a store in the 7th that specializes in fine food products from Spain and also operates as an upscale tapas bar. A string of such venues opened a few years ago when th...
June 3, 2005
Un Sandwich pour le Dessert
[A Sandwich for Dessert] "Un Sandwich pour le Dessert" is a project I worked on for Fraîch'Attitude, a Parisian gallery that specializes in Eat Art. Eat Art is an offshoot of ephemeral art that uses food as its primary material: some of the exhibitions are actually edible and are meant to disappear into the visitors stomachs, to be recrea...
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June 1, 2005
Mille-feuille Artichaut et Chèvre
And today, I'd like to invite you to hop on over to NPR.org for my new Kitchen Window column! What you will find this time is a recipe for an Artichoke and Goat-Cheese Mille-Feuille -- a tasty, fun-to-make and elegant starter for your next dinner party... (Previous Kitchen Window pieces: - Asparagus Confit with Almonds and Rosemary, - Chocolate ...
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