Brooklyn Saturday: Madcap Café, Blue Tatter, Bergen Spa
Highlights of a Brooklyn Saturday: breakfast at Madcap Café, culture at BLUE Tatter Textile library and foot massage nirvana at Bergen Spa.
Read MoreWhen a Foodie is Forced to Eat Gluten-Free
What happens when a foodie goes on an elimination diet …with meditations on the yoga, the body, the lust for beets and love.
Read MoreGay Paree in NYC
Come with our urban hiking quartet and experience Paris in New York City, from East Harlem to the Lower East Side.
Read MoreAsk and You Shall Find: A Pizza Pursuit in Roma
As soon as we checked into our small two-star hotel in Rome, I asked the young girl at the desk, “Where is the best pizza in Trastevere?” She wrote a word that looked like “Venenzio” on a hot pink Post-it.
Read MoreNo Acrobatics Required for Mastering the Summer Roll
Vietnamese summer rolls are in my pantheon of “most refreshing snacks” to eat in this summer’s suffocating heat. Yet, summer rolls have always seemed the product of a magic act.
Read MoreSaturday of my Distemper or Breather with Biscotti
Is that a hint of a breeze I felt in the dank air, too? The weather was supposed to be changing. I felt hopeful in the garden. And I decided there was a culinary pleasure that would finish the job of pulling me out of my funk: a pistachio biscotti at Cousin John’s Bakery in Park Slope.
Read MoreThe Real French Deal Redux: Happy Hour at Cafe du Soleil
Where can you get a glass terrine full of duck rillettes—enough pour deux—for only $6.00? At Cafe du Soleil’s Happy Hour. I wrote about this bistro bar in 2017, and it continues to become ever more popular.
Read MoreSome Sublime Summer Sandwiches
It’s like a spiffed up Korean Sausage McMuffin, and you don’t have to swim across the Hudson River to eat one. But I did, and I would again,
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