Here’s a gratuitous shot of a bubbly chocolate egg cream to start off your day. I have a big thing for old-fashioned diners and soda fountains. I don’t know if it’s the vinyl booths, swirly bar seats, jukebox music, or overall nostalgic atmosphere, but every time I visit one, especially in Brooklyn, I come out [...]
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Avocado and Coconut Smoothie
A few years ago I spent two weeks traveling through Vietnam and became hooked on a drink called sinh to bo, or Vietnamese avocado shake. When I got back to the US, I experimented with recreating the shake and wrote a recipe for my other blog Appetite for China. Traditionally, Vietnamese avocado shake is made [...]
Cherry Blossoms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
If you haven’t been to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden during cherry blossom season, go soon! In Japan, hanami is the tradition of viewing cherry blossoms (sakura) in the spring. With more than 200 cherry trees, the first of which were planted after World War I, the BBG has one of the largest collections of these [...]
Easy Kale and Quinoa Pilaf
I thought that I had gotten through the cold-weather season without catching the flu. Or any of the bad viruses that were going around. After all, I was prepared: I had drank a ridiculous amount of orange juice and eaten yogurt everyday. Then recently, during a stressful work period, I stopped consuming the oj and [...]
Brooklyn Loves Boston
Photo: Lucky Tran. Light projection: The Illuminator and NYCLightBrigade “For now, for today, perhaps it is enough to merely remind our friends and family there in the Hub that we are with them, that we never really left no matter how far away we may be, and that we’ll be with them again next year, in sorrow and in [...]
Squibb Park Bridge in Photos
If you’ve ever wanted to walk across a bouncy bridge and rest assure it’s perfectly safe, here’s your chance. Squibb Park Bridge recently opened as a much-needed (and scenic!) pedestrian link between the Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Whereas before you had walk a steep hill down Columbia Heights, then dodge traffic across the [...]
Ganso
The first summer I moved back to Brooklyn from San Francisco back in 2010, ramen joints had taken the city by storm. In the three years that I was gone, places like Ippudo, Hide-Chan, Toto Ramen, and Rai Rai Ken (just to name a few) had sprouted around town. Having recently traveled to Tokyo, I was ecstatic that [...]
Lemon and Lavender Chicken
When I first received The Little Paris Kitchen in the mail, I spent a good hour just sitting on the couch and flipping through the pages. All those photos of bistros, Parisian markets, dinner parties on adorable little balconies…it all sounds so cliché, but I thisclose to booking a plane ticket to Paris. (That’s the power [...]
Ovenly
Ovenly is one of those bakeries I wish I had in my own neighborhood. Sure, you can find Ovenly cookies and snacks at gourmet shops and cafés around the city, but there’s something about making the trip all the way to Greenpoint’s waterfront that makes those sweets you bring back extra special. (And the bakery [...]
Lobster Joint
It’s barely spring and I’m already daydreaming about a summer of lobster and fried clam rolls. The past winter, as with most winters, shellfish-eating got pushed aside in favor of soups, casseroles, and hearty meaty braises. But now that it’s warmer, this New England-bred gal has been seriously hankering for some fresh seafood. While in [...]
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