Gelf Magazine is hosting a discussion on the future of food criticism—a hot topic these days, in one iteration or another. View the event details here. I'll be joined by Robert Sietsema of the Village Voice and Alex Vallis of Feast. Meanwhile, check out this pre-interview with Gelf's Max Lakin.
In this week's Time Out New York, I grazed through many an ice cream sandwich to present what I think are the best—at least of the ones I tasted (enough to induce nausea in even the most gluttonous person). The thinking behind this is what basically guides any Eat Out section story—I've been seeing ice cream sandwiches increasingly on menus, in shops, and I wanted TONY to weigh in on them before the trend hit critical mass. The photos, by Noah Fecks (see the desktop wallpaper pdf here), are meant to be as food porny as possible. Which has been my mission at Time Out for a while—make the reader want to bite right in. Without further ado, here are some of the shining lights of the city's ice cream sandwiches.
I could glorify my birthday and pretend that I wasn't a nervous hostess, that I had the chance to have a relaxed conversation with each and every one of my guests, that the birthday girl could actually enjoy her birthday. I did have episodes of euphoria and pleasure, thank goodness. But one of the most fulfilling moments of the evening was seeing what the folks at the host restaurant put together for the party-goers. Leftover fried chicken from one hell of an exruciatingly, satisfyingly, goddammit-isn't-this-what-it-means-to-be-alive indulgent meal, to go. How it delighted the ambitious and control-loving hostess in me.
"And the following day, the guests thought of the revelry, the sparkling of unsober eyes and the crust of the chicken, which was just as crunchy, just as noisy in the mouth, the very next day."
Hello dear readers. My blog has lain dormant for an embarrassing three years. Yes, it is such a remarkable length of time that it almost feels like an achievement. I've done a lot of eating and a lot of writing since then (there are also technical issues with my publishing tool, so that's another issue, but hopefully I will soon get to post all of the fun stories I've been writing for Edible Manhattan and Brooklyn, Time Out and others). Because I can't share it in pictures or link to my work, I'll have to resort to the evocative spoken word. Let's see how I do with that. Stay tuned.
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