nod 'n' smile

For dinner last night, my boyfriend and I decided to stop by superstar chef Marcus Samuelsson’s Global Street Pop-Up Cafe set up at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. If you don’t know what a pop-up is, it’s essentially a temporary restaurant, store, art installation or what have you that generally showcases a new line [...]

I often get asked what my favorite restaurants are in the city. In true New Yorker form, I either order in or eat out for 90% of my meals, so it’s a perfectly reasonable question and one for which you’d think I’d have a good answer. But for some reason, I always seem to draw [...]

We just so happened to be in California during the last weekend of the 23-day Orange County Fair, so at the recommendation of a local we decided to stop by for a few hours on Saturday evening. Now when I think about fairs, I recall images from my childhood growing up in Virginia where our [...]

The initial reason that I decided to make a trip to the west coast is because my family was having our first-ever family reunion in Southern California. The reunion itself was actually only a few hours long, but I also spent a few days with some of my closest family members who had also flown [...]

NYC loves its food fads- in the past few years we’ve seen cupcakes, Korean fried chicken, and frozen yogurt, among other things, rotate into prominence with dozens of those stores and restaurants cropping up in quick succession. Lately, it seems the focus is more on the ingredients themselves- notably, all things organic, local, and sustainable, [...]