Time Travel.

Eating can transport you to a different continent.  The smells and sounds…and taste of the food can temporarily remove you from the urban grind and trick your tastebuds into believing you are on the beach in Italy, if you’re lucky.  Or you can swap one metropolis for another and pretend you are eating in Delhi.
But [...]

Dedicated to Brunch and to Neta.

Four of my seven roommates from Senior Year were reunited yesterday for brunch, arguably the best meal of the day and the sole reason holiday weekends exist.
We braved the heat and the early morning and ventured eerily close to where the numbers end, but it was worth it because my friend Chris was manning the [...]

I miss it.

There were two of them.  Crumpled against the fence of a neighboring townhouse on East 92nd Street.  Her head was rested in her hands, he had a cigarette in his mouth.  And I could tell you their story without missing a beat.  Their chef’s whites gave them away.  The cigarette didn’t hurt, either.
They had just come [...]