Tag: Food
Indochine, 25 Years Of Downtown Chic
Getting my name placed on the list for Indochine’s 25 year anniversary was not an easy task, especially when competing with celebrities. However, I managed to obtain my confirmation from one of Nadine Johnson's lovely and beautiful...
Notional and Chopped at the IAC. Too delicious!
I have to admit at the outset I know nothing about cooking or for that matter very little about the reality show called 'Chopped' which has been making heads turn around town. Our photographer, Mr. Keith Lew, can never...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- Restaurant Edition
How to behave in a restaurant...
While taking in the New York Times this morning, we saw a list of fifty essential rules for all waiters, waitresses, baristas, and other employees of the seventh circle of hell known as food...
Lindsay Lohan has a hissy fit at the Deli.
When the coffee boy doesn’t recognize celebrity royalty!
Here’s an interesting tale of bad behavior, entitlement and the stubborn belief just because you are deemed celebrity glamorous you are entitled. Of course who can blame a brat for thinking this,...
KittiChai- As good looking as the food…
Situated on the neighborhood-y Thompson Street in Soho, KittiChai is not new. It is not the bling it once was and it holding on with steadfast perseverance for maintaining its status quo. On a beautiful sun drenched NYC day,...
Chefs for Scher Crudo makes a comeback
Though ostensibly a charity function, Chefs for Scher gave ample opportunity for its celebrity participants to show off their talents. Held on the terrace of the Bowery Hotel, this event brought together gourmet eats, fine wines, and...
The Intrigue of Brunch.
You will know it by the smell of brown sugared bacon, eggs Benedict, blueberry pancakes and lavish juice laden cocktails all had at 2 p.m, who you know if you live in New York City, visit quaint hotels or...
The Etiquette of Food Shopping
As I was looking over the mesculin selection at Dean and Deluca, this very morning, I could not help but notice the girl picking grapes off the selection and eating them as she stood there. Also on her...
Culinary star David Bouley and The Economist’s Tom Standage dazzle.
I haven’t quite figured out what heaven tastes like but I know at this very instant it’s somewhere halfway between my tongue and the better part of my imagination. The gentleman standing in front of me hasn’t bothered to...
The Etiquette of Eating like a King on a Pauper’s Paycheck.
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” Many of us have heard this quote from Adelle Davis, a famed nutritionist. Health does matter, but really eating like a king does not mean...
Ritual Slaughter: How Matt Timms has Bobby Flay’d the Hipster Movement.
The trouble with insulting hipsters is that they will most often take it as a compliment. Their powers of alchemy do not stop at gentrification. These irony-clasts turn even the most ingenious criticism into a punch line for their...
Fixx and Sean give you the House.
Chiromancy is the age-old art of characterization and fortunetelling through the study of the palm. Also known as palmistry, palm-reading, or hand analysis, in today’s modern society it is generally regarded as a pseudoscience despite it’s uncanny accuracy in...
Why French People Love McDonald’s and for that matter the USA.
In Paris, people obey the rules. Take, for example, the Luxembourg Gardens, the city's prettiest and most prominent public park, where people actually resign themselves to looking at the grass instead of playing on it. As a Californian, this...
The Etiquette of Taking Tea.
Pinkies Up! Scallywag Takes Tea for Two.
What ever happened to the art of high tea? Sure, it’s still a staple in England, France, and other, more civilized lands, but why don’t Americans embrace this delicate practice? Have we become...
Okay, so we went to the Oscars too…hanging out with the Hot Chocolate Oscar gang.
What do you get when you combine a sweet tooth, a fascination for Hollywood stardom and the mink coats that come with them? A night out with America and the Hollywood dream.
This Sunday night saw us join the rest...
