I am admittedly not always the easiest person to work with — short-tempered, critical and stubborn on my worst days. But I think I made up to my co-workers today in a small way by bringing in a batch of fresh bagels all the way from Montreal for all of us to enjoy. As NYC…
Category: Food and Drink
Burdock root tea… or extraterrestrial brainstem?
My colleague Dominique brought in this kind of scary looking jar with a big root floating in the middle of it. Apparently he was steeping a herbal tea using a burdock root that he had just unearthed from a city park. Watching him take a big swig from it make me realize what a hardcore…
The Chinese Restaurant as Ghetto Indicator?
Living in Prospect Heights, on the edge of Crown Heights, I see on every corner the forces of “urban” culture and gentrification duking it out. There’s tony cafes with $50 prix fixe meals next to storefront churches, next to cafes serving $3 cups of coffee, besides auto repair shops with scary junkyard dogs. But how…
I love my Chemex coffee maker
After getting two of the best cups of coffee ever from both my friend Paul and from Sightglass Coffee in San Francisco made from a Chemex coffee maker, I resolved to get one for myself for my birthday. Going against the increasing technification of the coffee process,the Chemex boils down coffee brewing to its essence:…
Ain’t No Party Like A Filipino House Party: Cori’s and My Birthday BBQ
Here's my sister and I blowing out the candles on our respective birthday cakes, with a bunch of our cousins surrounding us. This weekend, the birthday celebrating continued, this time in California with a big family BBQ at my mom's house. It was a fantastic party, which like all parties from the Santos clan was…
Birthday Festivities Continued: Smoked Montreal Meat & The Big Apple for Dessert
The festivities continued on my actual birthday, Saturday, July 3. It began with an incredible lunch at the Mile End Delicatessan in Boerum Hil, Brooklyn. I've been wanting to go to this place since it opened a few months ago. Passing it by on my way home from Quaker Meeting, there were always long lines…
Yesterday’s Birthday Festivities: Filipino tapas, secret Frick tour, and power lunching
Yesterday I began celebrating my birthday doing several of my favorite things around the city that I love so much. It began with delicious coffee and croissants from Joyce Bakeshop on Vanderbilt Avenue. It's a great neighborhood bakery that always tempts on the way to the subway to work. Their full-bodied and rich Stumptown coffee…
Comparison of iPhone 1 and iPhone 4 Cameras (pic)
Here's a quick comparison I did of the cameras in the 1st generation iPhone and the 4th generation. Both photos are unmodified, other than that they were re-sized and put together in Photoshop. The main difference you aren't seeing is the size of the images, since the 1st gen has only a 2 megapixel camera,…
I < heart > Brooklyn: Appreciating the Small Things
I had a really awesome Saturday in Brooklyn, so thought I would list some of the tiny examples of cool things that happened: Yoga Virgin No More A friend of mine invited me to go with her to a free yoga class to start the day. I learned that the Lululemon yoga clothing store on…
Fun with Dental Implant Surgery
Today, after several years of trying to postpone it, I finally got started with the scary dental implant procedure that I've been needing to get for awhile. It was quite the experience involving a powerful anaesthetic, the oral surgeon, two assistants, and even a representative of the company that manufactures the special implant I was…