Inside Good Housekeeping’s Test Office

On Monday, I was invited for a personal tour around the Good Housekeeping test office in the Hearst Tower. My friend,

Sprinkles Cupcakes

Two years ago, I hosted a very thorough examination of all the cupcake bakeries in New York (see Cupcake Cagematch, Best Cupcakes in New York, and Best Bakeries in NYC to get you started). Williams-Sonoma donated four mixes of Sprinkles cupcake mix but the results were pretty sub-par; I had never visited the actual Sprinkles […]

Blue Hill at Stone Barns

Blue Hill was a really amazing meal that took almost six hours to finish. Since it was such a long meal, I thought I’d split it into separate posts for each course. Day one’s post: Blue Hill amuse bouches and from the green house. A very belated birthday post from our celebration dinner at Blue […]

Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop

Ken and I are huge fans of doughnuts and I always tell him that I’m going to wake up early to pick up doughnuts from the Doughnut Plant (there’s a new outpost in Chelsea that is close enough that I could run there in the mornings but I still haven’t done it.) I’ve been wanting […]

Stodycze Wedel

Down the street from Cafe Riviera is a Polish candy store, Stodycze Wedel: The candy store was completed decorated for Easter and had an assortment of festive Polish candies: There were lots of specialty candies that all included plums – the storekeeper let me sample some of the chocolate covered plums – they had an […]


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