Posts Tagged ‘Eating’
June 25, 2009
I bought this coffee on Father’s Day, before my daughter and her friends cooked the dads a delicious dinner of salmon, salad, fruit salad and other good stuff. It had been raining in New York City for days, but the sun came out briefly. I bought this instead of the first place winner in the Cup of Excellence, the Fazenda Kaquend, from Brazil, roasted by Ritual Roasters in San Francisco, which my favorite Chelsea cafe was offering for an astounding but perhaps understandable $35 per bag. Instead, I bought a bag of these less expensive beans from Costa Rica for about half that.
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Tags: 49th Parallel, Café Grumpy, Coffee!, drinks, Eating, espresso, NYC, Ritual Coffee Roasters
December 26, 2008
The mix this week is more culture than tech. Most of the podcasts I sample were off for the holidays, or they had recorded episodes in advance, so I went a little farther afield. [See all lists.]
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Tags: Benjamin Button, Bernard Madoff, Blogs, Books, Books on the Nightstand, Brazil, cheese, Coffee!, Coffeegeek, David Fincher, Dinner Party Download, drinks, e-books, Eating, espresso, Frank Sinatra, grok, John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, Jonathan Larroquette, Keanu Reeves, Kindle, Leo Laporte, Mad Men, movies, mozzarella, Obika, parmesan, Podcast Zeitgeist, podcasts, protean gestures, Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction, Seth Romatelli, The Coffee Song, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Uhh Yeah Dude
October 13, 2008
There are just 24 side-by-side seats at the long communal table at Socarrat Paella Bar on 19th Street in Chelsea, as Frank Bruni noted last week in The Times, and they don’t take reservations. So when our party of eight — including four kids — showed up on Sunday night, the math was against us, even though we were arriving before 6. We would have needed a third of the entire restaurant.
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Tags: Chelsea, Eating, NYC, paella, restaurants, Socarrat Paella Bar
October 13, 2008
The co-editors of “Gastropolis: Food and New York City,” (Columbia University Press, November 2008), Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, are answering reader questions on City Room about the history and culture of food in New York City. They are experts in “food voice,” a concept that involves studying “foodways” as channels of communication.
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Tags: Books, Eating, History, NYC
I bought this coffee on Father’s Day, before my daughter and her friends cooked the dads a delicious dinner of salmon, salad, fruit salad and other good stuff. It had been raining in New York City for days, but the sun came out briefly. I bought this instead of the first place winner in the Cup of Excellence, the Fazenda Kaquend, from Brazil, roasted by Ritual Roasters in San Francisco, which my favorite Chelsea cafe was offering for an astounding but perhaps understandable $35 per bag. Instead, I bought a bag of these less expensive beans from Costa Rica for about half that.
