Having a vegetarian girlfriend over for dinner recently provided the perfect opportunity to flick through some recipe books to see what we could make for her. Adam found this one and declared it to be the winner. And indeed it was. Yes, it took quite a bit of preparation, but it was enormous and kept…
I first saw this recipe in The Essential New York Times Cookbook months and months ago and I was intrigued on several counts. First, because it combines two of my favourite things – cheese and olives – in a way I hadn’t heard of before. Second, and I don’t know why, but it conjured…
From the top: view from the top of the Empire State Building, bacon and eggs and coffee at Greenwich Village, view from coffee shop, Brooklyn Heights, Studio 54 and the play Harvey. If these have inspired you, then do take a look at my latest iVillage post 5 Tips for New York Travellers.
The male bathroom had a sign taped over the top of it: the sign read ‘Women’. Even with the number of toilets increased, the line still trailed a long way outside and down the hall. We were between sessions, or at lunch, I can’t remember, and the queue moved swiftly. Once inside, there were the…
Having coffee this morning with a girlfriend, I was describing the meals we ate while away, doing my best to assert and affirm the reality that America can – in fact, does – serve up good food (good goffee – at Stumptown – is also available, you can forget Starbucks crap). The trouble was, it…
Tiffany’s is nestled next to Trump Tower. Why was I surprised at their proximity? I don’t know. For a place so full of sights and spectacles, how could I wonder at the seeming incongruities of locale, of what-is-where-and-why? We pushed our way through the rotating doors (New York is full of them, and I lived…
The small things will stay with me the most. [Although, this said, their longevity in the memory at once makes these events into something more and of deeper significance, compelling me to write about them before any other travel stories.] How I would internally call the crossing light the ‘green man’ as I do in…
And before I know it, the trip is almost over. Will be back next week x There’s the BlogHer Voices of the Year finalist banner with my post. That’s a pretty good Living List tick.
Yesterday, I went out to the garage, uhmed-and-ahhed over the few suitcases we own, brought one inside, and thus began the ‘Packing for New York’ adventures; soon to be followed by the even more adventuresome ‘Travelling to New York’. And I think I’m ready to admit I’m a little terrified. I didn’t mention in last…
