Last month, one of my favorite podcasts, Planet Money, came out with a story about how and why women computer science majors are so few compared to men, and compared to other sciences or med/law school. It's a super interesting story so I encourage you all to listen to it, but my response to that is...
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn't get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it's nice to take...
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn't get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it's nice to take...
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn't get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it's nice to take...
Lafayette is fun. It's crowded. It's like the new it place to go. There's a bakery shop in the front where you can get tasty if not over priced things from morning to night. The food is pretty good too, also a little over priced but there's a price to pay to eat at the popular place. Price fairness is not really important for restaurants, and if anything, using price to mitigate long queues might be worth it for everyone involved. We tried a few things at Lafayette and I liked the tripe the most. It's almost difficult to do this dish wrong, and when braised long enough it's absolutely delicious. At Lafayette they give you a bit of bone marrow too, which never hurts. You really have to add some salt to the marrow part of it though. But I want to address the article...
I've been thinking about unemployment lately because it may or may not be an impending doom personally. Apparently when you look unemployment rates for those with a college degree, it's actually around 5%, much lower than the national average of 9%. The thought of it is still scary. Employment is weird because we have jobs because businesses need people to run shit. Unless you're a big dog, most of us are just another cog in the wheel. This is why during downturns, many individuals hit up grad schools, in hopes that greater education offers opportunity to again, be a more important cog in the whole process. But mostly we do our jobs over and over again hoping to be a bigger more important cog. Restaurants get in that rut too. That's why chefs love seasonal menus and hate national chain restaurants. You can always do...
As a transplanted New Yorker, you hear things like how it takes seven years before you become a 'Real New Yorker', before you belong. Mostly that's crap though because you can feel at home here in New York in a much shorter period of time. When you finally settle in, you pick up the pace and your cadence becomes in sync with the pulse of the city. If you're lucky, and this is your type of town (and why wouldn't it be?), then you pick it up right away. Susur Lee, an internationally famous chef from Toronto, graced New York city with a new restaurant this past week. Shang is located in the Thompson LES Hotel, and it's hitting the ground running. Lee has his finger on the pulse that represents a fusion of cultures. Chef Lee was born in Hong Kong and came to international...
These days I struggle to find inspiration in food blogging. Most of the time I just want to eat and figuring out where to eat has become tedious. My slogan is a take on Nike's. Just eat it. Hell sometimes I don't even want to take pictures. Instead of talking about food, let's talk about bureaucracy today. Taking a cue from the NYTimes coverage of "What's in an A?" I figure it's a good opportunity to dig into the numbers that the DOH have accumulated. To start, I decided to look at the data as of Feb 9th, 2011. I can tell you that the DOH updates their website daily with grades so this stuff changes all the time. So out of the 8,891 restaurants in the DOH database for restaurant grades in Manhattan, I looked at the breakdown for American cuisine versus some other...
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn't get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it's nice to take...
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn't get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it's nice to take...