June 2011
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Amazing Falafel from a Truck!
Taim Mobile makes the best falafel I’ve had in the United States, hands down, and it could hold its own against the falafel I’ve had in Israel (a taste test is deserved, but would be a challenge). I had heard of Taim Mobile because it’s been written about in food blogs and won awards, and happened to stumble upon the truck in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They actually fry the falafel...
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Two Little Red Hens and its new Peanut Butter...
Two Little Red Hens is my favorite bakery in New York. They rarely make a misstep, and they make wonderful goodies every day. I have a lot of respect for the opinions of the Serious Eats New York team, and I feel validated that they love this bakery as much as I do. They named it one of their top 10 American-style bakeries in NYC.
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Fashion Exhibition Updates
Tumblr unkindly deleted my inspired draft about summer ice cream, so that post will have to be recreated. In the meantime, here are a few announcements about fashion history exhibitions going on in the next few months.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is the Met’s blockbuster Costume Institute show this summer. This week the Met announced that the exhibition will be extended for an...
May 2011
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Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef and Arpels
There is a wonderful jewelry exhibition on display at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York City. The Jewelry of Van Cleef and Arpels is a major success for Cooper Hewitt and it has been extended through July 4. The jewelry in this exhibition is magnificent, and the curators have done an admirable job separating the hundreds of item into several key themes: innovation, transformation, the...
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La Dulce Barcelona!
For my first real post, what could be more appropriate than writing about my favorite sweets on my recent trip to Barcelona?
Barcelona is an unforgettable city, and will surely have many more posts devoted to its unique juxtaposition of the Gothic Quarter and Old City with the colorful, whimsical Modernism of Domanech i Montaner, Cadafalch, and most famously, Gaudi. It is also a city that...