Simply saying the word chocolate is intoxicating to her. Her face lights up with a wide smile, those hazel eyes twinkle and then she coos, bird-like, with an inimitable “Ooooohh.” My husband is the guilty one. He’s given her tiny morsels of chocolates he buys at The Sweet Life. When he takes a piece out [...]
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Canella scones
To most, canella is the same thing as cinnamon, but in fact, it isn’t; anella is cinnamon’s more subtle, more aromatic sister—and it adds an interesting nuance to scones. To read more about this spice, and for an easy scone recipe, check out my article on Deandeluca.com
Spot Dessert Bar Review
Check out my review of Spot Dessert Bar in Papermag.com My recommendations: Vietnamese coffee cupcake, yuzu eskimo and the jackfruit cake. And definitely order a Thai milk coffee!
Porchetta at DiPalo’s
When I pulled up to the base of Spoleto, a charming town on a side of a mountain in the Umbrian region of Italy I wondered, what is that white truck selling, the one with the long line? Before embarking up the cobblestones to visit an amphitheatre build in 1 A.D. I had to stop [...]
Buckwheat blinis with smoked salmon and caviar
After writing about caviar for Dean & DeLuca, I was considering making my own blinis rather than buying them, but I’ve never made them and didn’t have a recipe. That is until now, when The Garden Cat Cottage offered her blini recipe, along with how she serves them. The Busy Hedonist will definitely be eating [...]
Sushi by Chef Tracy Griffith
I am at Dean & Deluca biting into sushi. The Cowboy Roll is unlike any roll I’ve tasted. This version contains meat, skirt steak with slivered red onion, triple cream blue cheese, and jalapeno soy sauce. It’s like biting into a morsel of a very appealing dinner. This is absolutely not typical sushi with raw [...]
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream
There are those who eat ice cream only in the summer and those who eat it year round. Although I don’t eat it nearly as much as I did when I lived in Boston (which seems to be more of an ice cream town), my ice cream habits lean toward the latter group: I’ll have [...]
Starbucks Ice Cream
I tend to frequent local coffee shops but when I do visit Starbucks, my drink of choice is a grande caramel macchiato. Which is why I was happy to see the ice cream version at a corner deli. I waited until Sunday night, movie night at my home, to try the vanilla, coffee, caramel swirl [...]
City Bakery
One of my daughter’s first words was Num Num. This was used for anything scrumptious she happened upon, which was definitely the case when we bought a slice of caramelized French Toast at City Bakery. After a stroll through the High Line on a windy Sunday, we stopped in for this and a cup of [...]
