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- Boqueria NYC
I don’t know if I had the usual culinary epiphanies when I lived in France. I remember thinking it very strange that everybody bought UHT instead of fresh milk, and that I was eating all that cheese and losing weight like crazy. But then I’d spent most of my life in a French school, surrounded […]
- The Emperor’s New Sorbet
(Sorbet and agar cube of indeterminate flavours, deep-fried membrillo, olive oil cake and pureed green olive and goat’s cheese sauces)
Two recent events conspired to inspire this review of Barcelona’s avant-garde dessert palace, Espai Sucre.
1. Chez Pim’s scathing review of L’Esguard: “quite possibly the worst meal of [her] life”. (Northern Spain is apparently experimental cuisine hell.)
2. […]
- So I Finally Went to Grimaldi’s
(Or, Stuff White People Like #89: Waiting In Line For Pizza.)
My dinner tonight was three slices of what some have called the best pizza in New York City. This, in a city with entire blogs devoted to the pursuit of the perfect slice. When I moved here three years ago I thought my then-boyfriend […]
- Dimsum Stories
Yesterday I went to Jade Asian in Flushing, Queens, and had some of the first Chinese-tasting Chinese food I have eaten in my three years in New York City. It unleashed a torrent of childhood memories: some of them I worked out after the meal by shopping for Stephen Chow DVDs in the Hong Kong […]
