Until the trip to Seattle this summer, I had been perfectly content to think of pistachio macaroons as a Paris thing. However, when I was out poking around Pike Place Market, I discovered that Le Panier now carries macarons. Hmmm... and they're delicious.
I just stumbled over a blog post on macaron reviews in NYC: In Search of the French Macaron in NYC…. Now I forsee a side trip to Rockefeller Center at some point.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
food and security
Via emergent chaos, a blog post on foodies and security nerds.
Too funny. So here's my list. Bold is food that you have eaten.
-the HTML is via a handy form that will generate the html for you. http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/
I find it interesting that security people and foodies are strongly correlated. Or at least are strongly correlated among the ones I know.
Too funny. So here's my list. Bold is food that you have eaten.
- Venison
- Nettle tea
- Huevos rancheros
- Steak tartare
- Crocodile
- Black pudding
- Cheese fondue
- Carp
- Borscht
- Baba ghanoush
- Calamari
- Pho
- PB&J sandwich
- Aloo gobi
- Hot dog from a street cart
- Epoisses
- Black truffle
- Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
- Steamed pork buns
- Pistachio ice cream
- Heirloom tomatoes
- Fresh wild berries
- Foie gras
- Rice and beans
- Brawn, or head cheese
- Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
- Dulce de leche
- Oysters
- Baklava
- Bagna cauda
- Wasabi peas
- Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
- Salted lassi
- Sauerkraut
- Root beer float
- Cognac with a fat cigar
- Clotted cream tea
- Vodka jelly
- Gumbo
- Oxtail
- Curried goat
- Whole insects
- Phaal
- Goat's milk
- Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
- Fugu
- Chicken tikka masala
- Eel
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
- Sea urchin
- Prickly pear
- Umeboshi
- Abalone
- Paneer
- McDonald's Big Mac Meal
- Spaetzle
- Dirty gin martini
- Beer above 8% ABV
- Poutine
- Carob chips
- S'mores
- Sweetbreads
- Kaolin
- Currywurst
- Durian
- Frog's Legs
- Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
- Haggis
- Fried plantain
- Chitterlings or andouillette
- Gazpacho
- Caviar and blini
- Louche absinthe
- Gjetost or brunost
- Roadkill
- Baijiu
- Hostess Fruit Pie
- Snail
- Lapsang souchong
- Bellini
- Tom yum
- Eggs Benedict
- Pocky
- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
- Kobe beef
- Hare
- Goulash
- Flowers
- Horse
- Criollo chocolate
- Spam
- Soft shell crab
- Rose harissa
- Catfish
- Mole poblano
- Bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor
- Polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- Snake
-the HTML is via a handy form that will generate the html for you. http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Soho to Penn Station
Viviane suggested that I blog this information, so here goes. She wanted to know how to get from our office at Broadway and Houston to Penn Station, buy a NJT ticket, and get on her train. I've optimized this route to pieces, so here it is.
- enter the Broadway Lafayette station at Broadway and Houston
- Go all the way down the first set of stairs past the turnstile to the BDFV Uptown platform. wait just behind the stairs
- Get on the first train that comes and go 1 stop to West 4th
- When you exit at West 4th, the escalator that skips the mezzanine is right there. Get on it and go to the ACE Uptown platform
- walk down to the other end of the platform. take a C or E train.
- exit at 34th Street/Penn. you will be very close to the turnstiles, go out them and down the half flight of stairs
- you're now on the lower level of NYP Station. Walk straight ahead, and take the first corridor that goes off to the right. That corridor starts off with LIRR tracks, and the NJT tracks are at the far end
- Near track 6ish or 4ish, there's a set of ticket machines that will rarely have a line. Buy your ticket there.
- There are NJT monitors nearby- watch them for your train. You will see the track announced 10 minutes before it will leave NYP
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