OK yeah I haven't had time to update my blog in a while. Here's the skinny on the rest of our vacation ( Read more... )

Sarah and I are on vacation. Yesterday we were up in Healdsburg, with my good girlfriend Liz (her husband took her twin boys to play putt putt so Mommy could "run an errand"), where we hit four wineries (I told the wine pourer at one of the places that I'd been training for months to get ready):

roshambo - Very modern, Japanese architecture, high ( Read more... )

I went to my dear friend, Poonam's going away party last night. She is leaving on Monday to get her MBA at Wharton. That's in Phillie. I haven't been to Philadelphia since I was a little kid. Now I have an excuse to go. Plus I can't live without Poonam for very long. I'll wither up and die ( Read more... )

It's finally Saturday. And I finally slept a decent number of hours. After devouring jalapeno covered nachos and swilling too many margs with Sarah and all the gay boys last night (oh, and Jeffrey -- metrosexual, as evidenced by his highlights, snappy dressing, and owning up to having a stylist -- but decidedly not gay) after their performance in ( Read more... )

The past week has been crazy. New York was amazing -- best birthday ever -- and day before yesterday, same day as my return flight, I started my new job. In short, I love it. Exactly what I want to be doing. I get to majorly geek out all day and get paid for it ( Read more... )

I know, it's not my birthday yet. I know it's only Thursday. But tomorrow it will be July. And it will be Friday ( Read more... )

My friend Steve and I were just having an email conversation about the things we always have to do when we go to NYC. Like H & H Bagels -- only the best bagels on the planet! And after you go to H & H, you go to Zabar's -- the best gourmet food shop in the city. Remember that TV show, Northern Exposure, how what's-his-name was always getting stuff ( Read more... )

I can't wait to go away this weekend for my birthday! I love being in New York City in the summertime. It always reminds me of that movie, The Seven Year Itch. That's the one where Marilyn Monroe wears the white dress that blows up over the subway grate -- and she gets her big toe stuck in the bathtub faucet, and drinks Champagne and eats potato ( Read more... )

Jeffrey (Vogue food critic and my idol -- so much so that I watch Iron Chef America just for him) Steingarten's article on pizza was thankfully reprinted in The Observer. It includes his recipe for perfect Neapolitan-American pizza.

Here are a few excerpts that contain restaurant recommendations:

"In my experience, the perfect Neapolitan- ( Read more... )

July 2: Dinner somewhere. I would love to begin our jaunt by having a Ricard aperitif at Pastis in the Meatpacking District (that is what I did when I arrived in NYC for my b-day 2 years ago; it could become a tradition ( Read more... )