July 2009
23 posts
Plane food
The food on my plane yesterday was not only the worst food I’ve ever eaten on a plane but was also possibly the worst food I’ve ever eaten, including hot elementary school lunches, in my entire life. It made me realize that aside from the rare situation of being served something gross in someone’s home who I don’t know very well, I really have very little occasion to force...
Van Leeuwen ice cream truck
The line to get on the new High Line park was as sun-baked and snaky as a line at an amusement park, so when we got to the top of the stairs and there was no ride we were a little disappointed. “They should at least have a slide at the end,” Lydia suggested. We didn’t feel like disembarking in Chelsea when we got to the slideless end, so we walked back to the Gansevoort...
Things not to consume
Last week RC saw part of the Sex and the City movie for the first time.
“Have you SEEN this movie?”
“Yeah, I saw it in the theater when it came out.”
“You need to see it again.”
“I’m pretty sure I don’t actually!”
“No, you NEED to see it again. It seems IMPOSSIBLE that it came out a year ago. I mean, obviously it is supposed to...
McClure's Pickles
Have you had these things? My god. I first tasted the Spicy variety at the Flea, in the context of a grilled cheese sandwich that was a consolation prize when the arepa line was too ridiculous. But the sandwich turned out to be the real trophy — melty cheese, crunchy/soft bread, overall such an excellent foil for these super spicy, garlicky pickles. Really anything rich is a good...
Romantic dinner
with Chad, Keith and A. Lo of n+1 to celebrate the publication of my Millionaire Matchmaker essay. Well, not really, essentially I crashed a meeting they were having. But they did buy me dinner: takeout from Rice. I got chicken pad thai and a watermelon juice (the only thing I ever get from Rice). It was pretty good, as usual. Rice pad thai tastes more wholesome than other takeout pad thai...
Soba bucket
Things you can get at Midtown hot/cold food superdelis that are gross, to me:
1. Giant tub of salad tossed to order. (I always make bad snap judgments about toppings, the salad guy inevitably puts on too much dressing, and it ends up costing like $9).
2. Anything from the hot/cold food bar, including fruit. Does no one else remember the rash of small-scale salad bar bioterrorism in 2001? You...
Going Back to Rockville
youngmanhattanite:
katiebakes:
thingsiatethatilove:
But the bagels from a Rockville Pike bagel shop called Bagel City were, it has to be said, better than like 85% of the bagels you eat in New York. This is like a dirty secret of New York that I am going to unabashedly speak truth to: unless you live near H&H, you are likely eating some pretty mediocre bagels on a regular basis.
THANK...
Heretical, seriously
On both weekends of our bicoastal tour of America’s weddings we ate bagels. The Los Gatos, CA bagels, from a place called “Posh Bagels,” were even worse than you’d expect: giant, kaiser-roll-type things with flaky skins and fluffy innards. But the bagels from a Rockville Pike bagel shop called Bagel City were, it has to be said, better than like 85% of the bagels you eat...
“Better fatten up, Courtney, or you might not live through this.”
– The Stay Classy Award of the day/all time goes to the Daily News for that one. I for one am genuinely really concerned about C.L. When everyone was sad about M.J. I made a little mental list of celenbrities whose untimely deaths would *actually* sadden me and she is on it.
My excuse for posting...
