People in this country are obsessed with bacon. Bacon-wrapped pork, bacon-wrapped hotdogs, bacon-wrapped corn, bacon is everywhere. Last summer, I posted bacon chocolate, and there are a lot of sweet/savor
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Coconut macaroons with Jordan almonds. Yes, Kayoko, they are color-coordinated with my Easter decor.

N.B. Not the same thing as macarons, with which
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I am totally into food. Add my friend who is also totally into food, and you get a Pepto Bismol-inducing food frenzy. On one such occasion, we visited perhaps the only authentic Chinese joint in
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After spending cocktail hour at Botanica, we headed over to Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie around the corner- a definite stopover everyone should make while in Red Hook. I had run into Steve at
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These new food trucks are going to be the death of me. This was yesterday’s eventful day in the office:

Phone rings

Lori: “Hello?”Chris: “Kathy got a waffle”Lori: “Be right there!”Lori runs down hallway faster than she’s ever run before

The infamous
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The worst thing about my job is that I work near Times Square — tourist central. One of the few perks about working in this horrid area is that the Treats Truck graces us with its presence every Wednesday!

We actually stare out the
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Greetings from Down Under! I am in Australia, spending a few weeks in Melbourne and having a great time.

There are all kinds of funny little wordy differences here:

‘capsicum’ means ‘ bell / chili pepper’how are you going? = how
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Met up with Kiwa for lunch at Katsuhama to get our tonkatsu on, and after a meal of fried meats and julienned cabbage, we needed something sweet. We stopped into the pseudo stylish bento place Yushi Bento Bar (think untz, untz, untz) and found these cute little cups of panna cotta for $2!

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Johnny Iuzzini makes the most beautiful desserts I think I’ve ever photographed. Seriously, they were so stunning that as I left our shoot on the patio of Jean Georges, I couldn’t wait to get home and look
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Chef Jacques Freres (pictured below) has been perfecting his souffles for years. I’m not even into souffles and I was swooned by his. Swooned!

As stated on their website, Capsouto Freres is a classic French bistro housed in a
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