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Cookbook Alert! A Brooklyn Map.

September 9, 2010 in New York, Reviews: Eat out, Tell me about it, Veg head

Maybe I’m not originally from Brooklyn. Maybe I don’t own a pair of hipster sunglasses or multi-colored sneaks…but ever since my college days and a tiny apartment near the Lormier station, I’ve felt like a BK gal. Boutique shops. Bike rides. Graffiti walls. The Billy Burg bridge…I’m home. So when a Brooklyn cookbook comes out, I’ve got to share it with you fancy folks. A preview from NY magazine shows that there are some veggie recipes in it. Not only that, you get a sense of the culinary history in Brooklyn…and that is genius. Maybe I’ll go on a BK [...]

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Review: Del Posto NYC

November 9, 2009 in New York, Reviews: Eat out

As the days, the months and hopefully the years go by you will get a real sense of my Aunt Robin. She was a vegetarian for most of her life and when I declared my vegetarianism as a youngster she really stood by me. Aunt Robin is the only Aunt a gal could need. The week before dear Auntie Robin’s birthday, I scrambled. I was really running out of ideas. That night I received Gourmet Magazine in the mail, flipped through it and stumbled on the ad for the Gourmet Institute’s weekend in NYC. This, I thought, is the best [...]

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