Every once in a while, I’ll go to Chinatown and pick up some exotic fruits that I can’t easily find anywhere else. On this particular trip, I saw a vendor selling durian and decided to pick some up to try it. Durian is easy to spot – they have spiky husks and the flesh is […]
For the month of February, Butter Lane is offering buy 1, get 1 free cupcakes (Monday’s – Wednesday’s) if you mention my blog, Gracenotes NYC! Butter Lane was a favorite from the cupcake cagematch, winning the wildcard category. Butter Lane is located in the East Village and uses all organic dairy (very awesome). What’s your […]
Since I was already frying 10 pounds of chicken on Saturday night (see chicken dinner post here), I figured we could also have a fried dessert. I was perusing the Ad Hoc at Home cookbook and found the recipe for apple fritters, which sounded really easy to make and looked very delicious. These were really […]
Tomorrow night there’s a special screening of Food, Inc. at the Mercy Corps’ Action Center to End World Hunger in Battery Park. Food, Inc., an Academy Award shortlisted film, reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from […]
A couple of years ago, I went to Ad Hoc in Yountville enjoyed my first Thomas Keller meal. Ad Hoc was a teaser for my birthday meal at The French Laundry, which, hands down, was one of the best and most fun meals I’ve ever been to. At Ad Hoc, the atmosphere was very casual […]
