Barney Greengrass on the Upper West Side Diners are a magical blip in dietary reality where it becomes seemingly fine to eat things that 1) have been demonized by every diet known to man 2) you would never cook yourself, partially out of shame and partially out of (albeit fleeting) self-respect 3) your body can't handle like it once … [Read more...]

New York's Newest Tex-Mex Star, Yellow Rose Similar to how now we look at the blithe use of asbestos all across America before 1980s with belittling judgement, I've recently been ruminating on the sustenance that fueled our growing bodies during the most crucial years of development with the same disparaging sense of awe. As we now live in … [Read more...]

Dame, Where I Spent Too Much in 2021 as Far as My Accountant Is Concerned ^ Paying homage to the now-out-of-season Cucumber Salad with Smoked Mussels & Dill bathed in an emulsified mussel sauce that I will serve as a soup at my highly improbable future wedding Things Customers Said To Me When I Waitressed at an Overpriced Seafood … [Read more...]

Jolene in Noho for Their Brunch ^ anything on top of a bed of delicately fluffy ricotta is basically boudoir Things that give me disabling anxiety: Turbulence on airplanes (I've cried into the chest of the stranger next to me)Videos of mother birds pushing their babies out of the nest so they learn to fly (it's niche)Folding laundry only … [Read more...]

Mel's Bakery on the Lower East Side Let me just say, I am absolutely furious that I wasted my peak metabolism years on the wrong foods. Why did no one tell me to truly enjoy washed-rind cheeses while my stomach could still process dairy? How was there no public service announcement that you should get your fill of caramel and peanut brittle … [Read more...]