Category: Food and Drink

Cindy, our friends Amy and Megan, and I met up at Coney Island today for some fun and relaxation by the water.  Standing on the long, long ordering line at Nathan’s Famous, I spied a very strange food item among the hot dogs, fries, and burgers  — Chicken Chow Mein, in both sandwich and bowl…

I finally got to try a "Concrete Jungle" from the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. The delicious concoction is very dense frozen vanilla custard mixed with hot fudge, bananas and peanut butter.  Thankfully, Cindy came with me, or I would have eaten an entire one, which would have knocked me out for the evening. …

Here’s the menu from Cindy’s favorite Chinese bakery, Fay Da on Elizabeth in Manhattan’s chinatown.  I think it’s fabulous that you can get both Russian borsch soup and pork congee with preserved egg.  I love New York.

This is Rikomatic, undercover milkshake inspector, reporting live from The Soda Shop on Chambers Street in Manhattan.  Luckily, today they had as their special flavor pistachio, my favorite.  The good news is that the milkshakes are so thick that they serve them with extra large straws.  This was actually very helpful since the pistachio flavor…

I love black licorice and foods in general that are black.  So when I saw that they had salty licorice ice cream in Sweden, or "saltlakrits" as its called, I had to try it.  Definitely not for everyone, but I love it.

So Cindy and I are at Elvie’s, a popular filipino restaurant in the East Village, last weekend.  We ordered a delightful assortment of pork adobo, chicken in a coconut sauce, and a pork skewer.  We only got one portion of rice because I’m cutting back and Cindy doesn’t eat much herself. Our apparent deficit of…

I finally, months later, got around to reading this astounding, and very long article in the NY Times on healthier eating, called "Unhappy Meals" by Michael Pollan.  For those who don’t have the patience to wade through 12 web-pages of text (i.e. my girlfriend), here’s the quick summary of his nine main recommendations: Eat food….