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• Village Tart versus supply and demand

  

  There's a funny thing about supply and demand, which is that usually when you have a lot of supply with a constant demand, then the prices will fall. Here, for example, imagine you're running a drug cartel, would you want fifty other folks doing the same thing, or more like five others doing the same thing? In that business, I presume that you just off your competition. It doesn't really work like that here in the food world. In fact, prices don't seem to behave normally in the food world. Last week I wrote a little bit about DT Works, the new store front for the guys who ran The Dessert Truck. This past weekend I went to Village Tart. So the city gets another dessert centric place. Cupcakes, cheesecakes, and cute little tarts. This city can't seem to get enough of it. Sure I understand if the demand is super high, then the city is able to support all of these places at the same time. And the prices they demand will all be justified. But you know, what I really hope for is that we end up with excess supply, and that the prices come down. Because in order to get dessert in this city, you gotta hand over your wallet.

  Village Tart versus supply and demand is continued here...

  12 comments. Posted on February 2 2010 at 11:08 am

• Thoughts on Donut Plant and farting

  

  More and more I find myself straying off of the topic of food on this blog. It's becoming harder and harder to see food as more than a variable in an economic transaction. Lunch is not just lunch but instead a practice on how little can I spend to feel not hungry. Dinner is usually different, I eat normally then. And of course what food blogger doesn't snack here and there. Some days I'm overwhelmed with this intense desire to understand how to quantify my desire with potential satisfaction. In simple terms, I can't make up my mind. You show me a donut and my imaginary tail wags at a rate faster than Danny Meyer can open Shake Shacks. Sometimes I forget exactly what kind of number calculations are going on in my head and poof! $2+ for a donut. In fact, when my mind is a typhoon, I order THREE donuts, and not just one.

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  5 comments. Posted on January 6 2010 at 12:24 pm

• Crack pie and The Wire

  

  Recently Steph and I embarked on a special undertaking - we started watching The Wire. If you don't know what The Wire is, then you probably lived under a rock for the first half of this decade (which by the way, is ending soon...) I think on the Baltimore episode of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain proclaimed it as the best show ever on television. That is some high praise. I've only seen the first five episodes and it's getting good already. For those of you not yet graced by the show, the basic gist of the show is about these cops trying to crack down on this drug kingpin who 'owns' the area of West Baltimore. The main good guy so far is Jimmy McNulty, and the king pin is Avon Barksdale. The show so far has already dealt with wire tapping and the intricacies of dealing drugs. Fro example they get into the difference between being in charge of high rises versus low rises, and they talk about hierarchies of the group. So Avon Barksdale is the boss, and he has a right hand man named Stringer Bell and a cousin named DeAngelo. Oh man, the show is just so good. But how does this relate to food?

  Crack pie and The Wire is continued here...

  7 comments. Posted on December 21 2009 at 11:34 am

• Almondine in Park Slope

  

  Last night Wii fit told me that I'm 45-years-old. As a 27-year-old, I'm not sure how to feel about this. And then the Wii fit told me that the optimum BMI is around 22 whereas mine is around 25. Whodda thunk it, a food blogger on the cusp of being listed as 'overweight'. If my mom is reading this now, she'll probably pick up the phone and call me in a minute to remind me not to eat too many hamburgers. Rest easy mom, I've only been eating french fries... and sweet potato fries... and fried dumplings. I suppose it doesn't help to eat pumpkin ice cream with a big spoon while I weigh myself... The thing is, I'm 5'8 and 166 and it doesn't feel like too much! Damn you Wii fit. So here's the kicker, the game asks you to set a goal. So I figured a good goal is to get to a BMI of 22. Guess how much weight loss that would require? 17 pounds!!!! Man I haven't been 149 since 7th grade. Crazy. Oh yea, so I also like to eat pastries. Lots and lots of pastries, because butter keeps my doctor on edge. To satisfy my urge, I went to Almondine

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  6 comments. Posted on December 14 2009 at 6:37 pm

• Best cookie it is not

  

  Chocolate chip cookies are a funny thing apparently. For example, if you like Chips Ahoy cookies, did you know they taste 10x better if you microwave it for just about.. 10 seconds or so? Maybe less? They get all soft and gooey and the thing is just heaven. Serious Eats thinks that Pret has a good cookie. Better than City Bakery. They also think Bouchon has a good cookie. So I tried them, although I only took pictures of the Pret cookie.

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  3 comments. Posted on November 19 2009 at 11:05 am

• Grandaisy Bakery and free treats

  

  For some reason unknown to me, I always love getting a bargain. Getting something for less or getting more for the same price always makes me a happier and fatter dude. I've always wondered what bakeries do with excess product at the end of the day. When I went to Grandaisy in the Upper West Side, I discovered that if you're lucky, they give you some of the excess, if it's near closing time. I went in to get a piece of pizza bianca, and came out with that and a little tart looking thing. The pizza bianca was delicious. You can read more about those things at Serious Eats if you want. But I just wante to talk about the free stuff.

  Grandaisy Bakery and free treats is continued here...

  7 comments. Posted on August 12 2009 at 4:51 pm

• Spider eggs donut from Bouchon Bakery

  

  It's great when the food that you're eating reminds you of something happy. Sometimes though, the food that you're eating reminds you of something not so happy, and it's just confusing because it still tastes good. I got some sort of cream filled chocolate donut from Bouchon Bakery in the Time Warner Center a few weeks ago. It's a tasty enough donut and for $3+, it better damn be tasty. The only thing was that the top of the donut reminded me of spider eggs. If the round crunchy bits weren't covered in chocolate, I'm not sure that it would have been so appetizing. Thankfully it was.

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  2 comments. Posted on August 11 2009 at 4:21 pm

• Double Crispy Bakery and average NBA shooting guards

  

  Sometimes when you have a blog that mostly attracts people with pictures, you run into a problem when the pictures are kinda dull. Today for instance, the pictures have this weird blue hue that I didn't have the energy to correct in photoshop. They also need more saturation, but whatever. What do you do when this happens? Um... I can not talk about the food and just blabber on about random things instead. Sounds good?! OK! Hi there! Ah.. dogs. Oh but before I get into randomness, let's talk about Double Crispy Bakery. Specifically let's talk about their Macau style egg tarts. I've only had that and their pork buns, so don't take this as a recommendation for all the baked goods here. We're only talking about egg tarts, and the Macau style ones.

  Double Crispy Bakery and average NBA shooting guards is continued here...

  6 comments. Posted on June 19 2009 at 2:03 pm

• Little Pie Company

  

  After seeing Jonathan talk about Hoosier Mama, I just had to counter with a specialty pie shop in New York. A good pie week can't end without a trip to the Little Pie Company. You can't help but love the name of their store. You don't see any cupcake place call themselves something like, "Cupcake Place" or something like that. My friend Eric is a pie lover, and told me that I should try their signature pie is the sour cream apple walnut. That's by far the most interesting sounding pie I've heard of, that still has the potential of being good. But first, I had to try something more traditional, a slice of their cherry pie.

  Little Pie Company is continued here...

  2 comments. Posted on April 19 2009 at 7:45 pm

• Hoosier Mama Pie in Chicago

  

  Jonathan is back with a guest post about pies! Mmmm... pie week is great. This makes me want to live in Chicago. We don't really have stores like this in New York. We only have the cupcake craze... but they have pies! I want some pie now... but as a substitute, reading about pies and looking at his drool-worthy pictures will do for now...
  
  I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but there are two major exceptions: cookies and pies. For these two, I have a weakness. This weakness compels me to not only eat the cookies and pies, but also somehow obsessively rank them in my head. I have this running top five list for each. The lists themselves are very reminiscent of Rob Fleming from High Fidelity; and every once in a while I find myself listing off other things.

  Hoosier Mama Pie in Chicago is continued here...

  6 comments. Posted on April 15 2009 at 9:57 am

• Cinnamon Bun pie from Momofuku Milk Bar

  

  My life revolves around mini obsessions that last around a week. This week is going to be pies. You figure that the food blogosphere would have made a big deal about pies by now. We all went gaga over cupcake places last year. It got to a point where I even at a cupcake after it fell to the ground. So far this year, it's all about sandwiches. One thing has gotten over looked, and it's just as simple as a cupcake and as tasty as a sandwich. Pies. Not pizza pies, which gets people excited... but dessert pies. Apple pies, blueberry pies, cherry pies, etc. I guess the Momo empire got us all hungry for crack pies. The pie revolution still hasn't really started. We should do something about that. I went to Momofuku Milk Bar and got a slice of pie yesterday. A cinnamon bun pie...

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  12 comments. Posted on April 14 2009 at 3:25 pm

• Time loop and dynasties and repeat winners

  

  Last year, Jeremy started watching Lost even though he had never seen it before. He did it because his coworkers would all talk about it and he wouldn't be in the conversation. Then he got me started on watching Lost and I have no idea what's going on this season except there's some freaky time traveling thing going on in the first few episodes. There's a lot of time shift going on and people are traveling back in time and then moving in time and it's all sorts of crazy stuff. Pretty soon, I guess they'll time travel to the future. And then back to the past, unless they get all those people back on the island. A huge time travel loop I guess. You see loops in the sports world too, albeit different kinds of loops. You have organizations and coaches and players that win and win repeatedly. Just look at Phil Jackson. All he does is win. After the Shaq and Kobe Lakers, there was a brief period of the Lakers sucking but now they're back. I'm getting to my point, just hold your damn foodie horses already. Blogging is all about doing what's hot, doing what someone else is doing, or doing lists or comprehensive coverage, or doing gimmicks. I know, because I want to do all those things to get more RSS readers... Places jump into the spotlight when they first come out, and then they fall to the wayside to make room for the next young buck. Well, sometimes the old veteran learns new tricks and is ready to shine again. Black Hound is that old vet.

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  3 comments. Posted on February 10 2009 at 2:44 am

• Green cake from Hon Cafe

  

  Most of my friends and family know me as the cheapest person alive. It's actually a title I hold dear. Being cheap, you hardly ever find me in a Starbucks drinking overpriced lattes. I do however, love Chinese bakeries. You could say that Chinese bakeries are my Starbucks. Except at one third of the cost. Oh and I don't spend money on drinks, I spend money on the baked goods, of course. Hon Cafe is one of the newer additions to the Chinese bakery landscape in Chinatown. They have a little cafe in the back where they serve hot food and a bakery in the front where you can get your typical Chinese bakery goodness, and bubble tea. A few days ago, I went to Hon Cafe to buy a mixed fruit cake.

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  6 comments. Posted on January 14 2009 at 12:20 pm

• Peanut butter cookie from Trois Pommes

  

  Happy New Year! That gets old after a while so this will be my official post to wish everyone well in 2009. It should be a great year full of good eats like burgers, cupcakes, pizzas, and of course, cookies. The cookie you see here is from Trois Pommes Patisserie in Park Slope Brooklyn. Sometimes people say that a certain food item was a revelation, as if it could transcend the boundaries of food and change your life. This didn't exactly happen, but I did have a revelation while I ate the cookie. It's not exactly the same, you see.

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  7 comments. Posted on January 2 2009 at 1:07 pm

• Butter lane

  

  I'm a big fan of sampling food. If you ever go to Costco you know exactly what food samples are. That place is just crawling with food samples. Nothing like samples to help you make informed decisions about what kind of food you'd like. I've been around the block a few times and seen quite a few cupcake places and never has a place said, "Here, taste the different types of frosting we have to offer today." It's just... genius. I guess part of the reason Butter Lane lets you taste test is because they offer two main types of cupcake frosting: American and French.

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  12 comments. Posted on December 16 2008 at 1:21 am

• Macarons from Itzy Bitzy Patisserie

  

  There's a new macaron in town and it's damn fine. They're being hailed by Robyn of Serious Eat, Kathy of A Passion for Food, and Tina of A Wandering Eater. They're like the three macaron musketeers or something. Between the three of them, they probably know the New York macaron scene inside and out. And this past weekend, the Itzy Bitzy Patisserie macaron that's been roundly hailed as one of the best in the city finally went on sale at the Brooklyn Flea.

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  8 comments. Posted on November 25 2008 at 10:11 am

• Momofuku Milk Bar at first glance

  

  All the cool kids had gone already and reported back with their stories. Blondie and Brownie reported of a line that was over an hour. Nick from Beef Aficionado eloquently described his experience at Momofuku Milk Bar. There was much buzz surrounding the new Milk Bar that opened this past weekend. Located adjacent to the Ssam bar on 13th street, Momofuku Milk Bar proved that people still cannot get enough. The latest creation of the David Chang's Momofuku empire was worth all the hype.

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  14 comments. Posted on November 17 2008 at 3:45 pm

• Let them eat donuts but maybe not Trois Pommes donuts

  

  Trois Pommes Patisserie is a pleasant bakery in the heart of Park Slope. Normally, when the fundamentals of the economy are strong, I probably would be okay with a $3 donut. But since the DOW is near 10 year lows, I feel weird about $3 dollar donuts even if I could afford to eat one every now and then. The truth is I don't frequent bakeries and when the nice lady said it was $3, my heart sang a tune because it wasn't as expensive as Bouchon's jelly-filled donut. See that? That's pretty crazy when you can think, "This $3 dollar donut is 25% off from the more expensive donut!" The problem I have versus most other food bloggers is that I can't compare $4 dollar donuts with Dunkin Donuts and recommend the 400% premium. It just makes no sense. And even at a 300% premium, it still makes no sense.

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  11 comments. Posted on October 28 2008 at 12:13 pm

• Autumn haiku and Patisserie Claude

  

  "Thank god man! I was starting to think you were gay!" That's the kind of love I get from my friends. Fucking assholes. Gotta love 'em. Between that and the occasional name calling of, "Dannila" sometimes the love is just endless. Ok, kids, what did we just learn in the last three sentences?
  
  1. Danny can't count.
  2. Sometimes he acts like a girl (lipstick?! what lipstick?)
  3. OMFG I cussed.
  
  How does that line go again? "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." At some point I was going to let foul language on the site, and after a year of doing this... what better time than now?! I won't litter your screen with it THAT much, but consider this a notice for those who are wound as tight as the FCC. Even though language restrictions has fallen apart, my love of stuffing food in my mouth is still in tact. Oh, so are these haikus.

  Autumn haiku and Patisserie Claude is continued here...

  13 comments. Posted on October 7 2008 at 2:00 am

• Haiku of wild dog tacos and new york anime festival

  

  I'm on a roll. Two weeks in a row, we have a completely random haiku. It's lovely, ain't it? Lately I just don't feel very poetic on Sundays. This Sunday the fridge was graced with the line, "I want more wild dog tacos." So you see that it just had to be used! I think that line came from Matt, so big props for saving me some work. What would really help the Sunday Haikus (which now mostly fall on Mondays), is if I could have a lifeline.

  Haiku of wild dog tacos and new york anime festival is continued here...

  7 comments. Posted on September 29 2008 at 10:59 am

• Jim Lahey and NYCE

  

  The New York Culinary Experience was this past weekend. It was a cozy event with about 100 attendees, and I was able to join in on a bread class on Sunday morning. Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery here in New York City. Most of the classes this past weekend had 24 participants, but for a no-knead bread class at 9am on Sunday? Two participants. It was a small and intimate. I prefer sleeping in on Sundays, but I had a blast getting up early and listening to Jim talk about bread.

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  7 comments. Posted on September 23 2008 at 11:54 am

• Mei Lai Wah has a great roast pork bun

  

  I was overjoyed when Eater reported about Mei Lai Wah's reopening. Actually, I had only been there once, and it was late at night and they did not have any roast pork buns. That left me distraught, and soon after they got closed down by the DOH. With Sun Say Kai raising their prices on baked roast pork buns to 90 cents, and Mei Lai Wah gone, the world of baked roast pork buns just was not the same. I was a lost Chinese boy without any buns to make my belly bigger. Sadness all around yo. But this morning, my faith in the world of delicious was restored. I don't need Jesus, I found the perfect roast pork bun.

  Mei Lai Wah has a great roast pork bun is continued here...

  7 comments. Posted on August 8 2008 at 10:28 am

• Sweet Melissa has a good cupcake

  

  The cupcake craze continues! Actually I just do not feel like writing today, that is why this post is about a cupcake. This post almost writes itself! In the Carroll Gardens and Park Slope neighborhoods in Brooklyn, there is a pastry shop called, Sweet Melissa Patisserie. Of course they have cupcakes! And this past weekend, I strolled on by to try one at the Carroll Gardens.

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  15 comments. Posted on June 3 2008 at 12:07 pm

• SSS Banana Pudding ingnites happiness

  

  If you read about the gravel cupcake debacle last week, then you probably wondered what was in my other hand as the cupcake fell to the ground. It was a cup of delicious banana pudding from Sugar Sweet Sunshine. Everyone told me to get it the last time I got cupcakes from SSS. I do not know why it took me this long to go back and try it, but I was thankful to have tried it! Maybe I will try to eat it for breakfast the way Kathy says she sometimes does.

  SSS Banana Pudding ingnites happiness is continued here...

  10 comments. Posted on May 19 2008 at 12:50 pm

• Gravel cupcake and Pinisi

  

  Oh I have got a story for you. I was on a multi-stop food trip and the first stop was at Pinisi. All my blogging friends are big fans of Pinisi. Robyn, Kathy, and Tina all like this bakery. My expectations were sky high. I walked in and requested a single red velvet cupcake and paid 4 dollars for it. I was kinda shocked at the price tag, but this is my life. Not yet ready to eat a cupcake at the time, therefore I carried it in the plastic take-out container and walked towards the Lower East Side (LES). After buying something else and having dessert in both hands I was ready for my quest. Here was where it started to go all wrong...

  Gravel cupcake and Pinisi is continued here...

  9 comments. Posted on May 12 2008 at 12:55 pm

• Cake Man Raven is mad delicious

  

  On my way to the Brooklyn Flea last Sunday, I randomly walked by Cake Man Raven. I vacillated between stuffing my face or walk straight to the flea market. Guess which one I picked... First heard about this place three years ago when the Times' Dining Section did a piece on Raven Dennis and he sounded like the perfect fourth uncle that I never had. You know, those terms like 'second-cousin' or 'third-cousin' totally throw me off. Why not just do it in a more simple way? You walk up to your relative, and say, "Yea we tight. (do a secret hand shake)" and based upon how smooth the secret hand shake is, that is how well you know your relative. Right, so I like cake. You like cake. You will like Cake Man Raven.

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  12 comments. Posted on April 9 2008 at 3:48 pm

• Swirlz Cupcakes is the Chicago Cupcake response

  

  Woo hoo, I love guest blogging days. Jonathan who brought us Andrzej Grill, is back for another guest post. And it is about cupcakes! I am making everyone think non-stop about cupcakes because that is how I roll. Read on! btw, anyone else here in the Chicago area?)
  
  For some peculiar reason (I just can't imagine why?!), for the last few weeks I've had these non-stop cupcake fixation. Luckily there are two cupcake places close to the work. One, Molly's Cupcakes, is directly across from clinic while the other, Swirlz, is directly across from the main hospital. So no matter where I am, I have options for fulfilling my cravings close by.

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  5 comments. Posted on April 1 2008 at 12:52 pm

• Sugar Sweet Sunshine is the best

  

  I am really OCD whenever a food group gets into my brain. I just have to go try out a bunch of them, and that is what happened last week when I tried both Buttercup Bake Shop and Sugar Sweet Sunshine. There are worse things to be obsessed about, like cleaning your room, which I am definitely not obsessed about... And just like at Buttercup, I felt the need to get more cupcakes than necessary because I did not eat lunch that day. Who does not love cupcakes for lunch?!? It is the meal of a lifetime. Four different types of cupcakes, and at a dollar fiddy a piece, that is only $6 for a box of four cupcakes! Dear life, I love you. And let us get into the details.

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  14 comments. Posted on March 21 2008 at 12:25 pm

• Buttercup Cupcakes FTW

  

  You know, whenever I take out-of-focus pictures, I have a tendency to Photoshop the crap out of them because well... it takes a lot of effort to haul all the way back up to the UWS to get cupcakes. And even though the Times said bloggers get fat, I really could care less. Here at Food in Mouth, I am blessed with the metabolism of a mid-twenties dude. Cupcakes in bunches is kind of my motto now. And up ahead we have some overblown pictures of cupcakes from Buttercup Bake Shop.

  Buttercup Cupcakes FTW is continued here...

  4 comments. Posted on March 20 2008 at 8:51 am

• Petrossian and buttery goodness

  

  More croissants! This time from Petrossian! Sometimes I get a little OCD with food choices and totally go overboard in trying them out. Speaking of OCD, that has become a really cool word. Kids my age like to say they have OCD and thus can or cannot do certain things. "I am a dork" is totally another phrase that is now cool. What is up with that? All these trends are not useful to me right now, but ten years ago? Hell yea! You see, inside of me is this little ball of energy called the STFU ball, and when it grows too big, I explode. If one more person tells me he/she is a dork because he/she likes scrabble or knitting, I WILL EXPLODE! I CANN HAZ COMBUSTION! or something. Now let me tell you how I was dorking it out while eating croissant + cookie.

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  1 comments. Posted on March 2 2008 at 12:58 pm

• Bouchon has a yum cookie

  

  At the end of my vegetarian week, the only thing that kept me from going absolutely cuckoo was dessert. What ended up happening around Saturday and Sunday was that I had this, "almost at the finish line!" thought in my head and it just completely wrecked havoc on my sense of desire. Instead of broccoli, my mind wandered towards BACON. And since I could not have bacon, the next best thing was a chocolate cookie. To minimize the guilt associated with a cookie breakfast, I thought croissants would be a good idea. And Bouchon Bakery came to my rescue.

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  5 comments. Posted on February 26 2008 at 8:11 am

• Blue Sky Bakery

  

  Over on 5th Avenue in Park Slope, there is a quaint little bakery tucked in the middle of unassuming stores. You can easily miss Blue Sky Bakery, unless you happen to be looking for the Law Office of Jesus and peek next door to investigate the source of the delicious aroma that fills the air. No seriously. It is right next to where a guy named Jesus has a law office. Not only do I pinky swear it is true, but there is photographic evidence to prove as such.

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  12 comments. Posted on January 31 2008 at 12:25 pm

• Cinnabon goodness at the Rockefeller Center

  

  Tourists in New York always puzzle me. I know there is heavy resentment from some residents that tourists just clog up the sidewalk and they walk too slow. Since I am prone to stop in the middle of the sidewalk at times, to snap up a picture, I do not have much beef with that. That and tourists pump in an inordinate amount of cash into the local economy. I was walking along fifth avenue on Sunday and saw this line to go into a store. This was maybe three in the afternoon. "They must be selling Wii's or something," I thought to myself. Upon closer inspection, it was an Abercrombie & Fitch store. Really, why come to New York to go to the A&F store? It is always interesting to see what tourists are into. After fifth ave, I was down in the Rockefeller Center and there were people in Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, and Subarros. The Cinnabon store? No love. Zero. And since I am all about giving out love, I went and gave Cinnabon some and bought one.

  Cinnabon goodness at the Rockefeller Center is continued here...

  3 comments. Posted on December 18 2007 at 2:10 pm

• City Bakery

  

  Sometimes writing a blog feels very narcisstic. I try to keep that in check by listening to music that make me question my own depreciating level of manliness. Does that make sense? I mean, it is not like I have Celine Dion and Michael Bolton playing or anything. Then I tell myself, "see, look at you, you are not even cool enough to be a hipster or listen to rap, hell you are listening to [blank]." I left that blank because incriminating evidence is just not necessary. Suffice to say the songs on my playlist are not covered in Guitar Hero III (well, except Pat Benatar because everyone loves "Hit me with your best shot"). Oh there I go again, deviating away from the subject at hand. The weather is playing tricks on me. Everyday I look at the ten day forecast and they tell me it will get warm in a few days. Those lying bastards, today is ten degrees colder than it is supposed to be. Well, when it is this cold, you drink hot chocolate. Really good hot chocolate, but one that makes you wonder, "Is New York growing on me? Because I just paid three dollars for a hot chocolate. THREE DOLLARS." Who can put a price on deliciousness though? I can.

  City Bakery is continued here...

  14 comments. Posted on December 7 2007 at 12:04 pm

• Pumpkin cupcakes and country song

  

  A few weeks ago I stopped by Amai to get some dessert. It was after I had french toast and syrup, therefore the only logical thing was you know, eat more sugar. The woman behind the counter had this tray of fresh out of the oven cupcakes and they looked super tasty. They do a lot of tea stuff at Amai and I got one tea cookie to try out.

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  9 comments. Posted on December 4 2007 at 9:21 am

• Sandwich lunch from jacques torres

  

  Sometimes my mom calls me and asks me what I eat. This is my seventh year living in New York City, it is probably obvious that I know how to feed myself. Sometimes that proves to be false. Sometimes for lunch I just eat a sandwich. Good thing mom never asks what kind of sandwich, because in this case, it is an ice cream sandwich. Actually after the ice cream sandwich, real food found its way into my stomach. The main event of the day was sweets though, and my supplier of choice was Jacques Torres.

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  5 comments. Posted on November 19 2007 at 11:28 am

• Trois Pommes Patisserie

  

  Trois Pommes Patisserie is located in the middle of Park Slope on 260 5th Avenue. I walk by it all the time, and miss it easily because right now there is the ubiquitous blue scaffolding in front of their building. You can barely see it as you walk by on the other side of the street. It is definitely a great spot to stop by on a nice morning when you need some grub. Trois Pommes is owned by former Union Square Cafe pastry chef Emily Isaac, and the space is pretty homey. You walk into the store and right away you see the sweets on display in the front, and the open kitchen in the back. If you are standing there just gazing and salivating at your options, you literally can see someone walk twenty steps from the bakery to place something into the display case. Is that perfect or what?

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  1 comments. Posted on October 16 2007 at 12:16 pm

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