One of the benefits of marrying someone who is very different from me is that there are new food items to grow to love. Kouign Amann is a buttery pastry with crispy bits. It's sweet and literally means butter cake. Far Breton is a cake with a consistency like a stiff flan, and it has dried prunes scattered within the cake. I never had any idea these two things existed until wifey came into the picture...
One thing that's nice about New York is that it's possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel...
One thing that's nice about New York is that it's possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel...
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I always wondered what kind of business food trucks do when the weather isn't perfect. Usually during nice weather, I refuse to line up for Uncle Gussy's. It don't matter if they win Midtown Lunch streetmeatpalooza or if they're all over the Vendy's. I only get in line for shit on vacation. For example in Taipei I waited an hour to spend $3 dollars on breakfast of soy milk and fried crueller. So when it rains, it's the perfect opportunity for me hit up a truck like Uncle Gussy's...
One thing that's nice about New York is that it's possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel...
One thing that's nice about New York is that it's possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel...
We went to check out the new-ish Whitney Museum by the Meatpacking District the other week. The weather was gorgeous and you could see the Freedom Tower in the skyline very easily. You wouldn't think a view from a balcony could make you feel small, but somehow at street level it's often harder to understand the scope of everything; New York moves so fast, with energy levels so high around you, it's often too easy to think all of it is normal. We didn't dine at Untitled and given that they're in the news this week for altering their business strategy as it pertains to tipping, it would have been great to post about that. But we didn't eat there and ended up with a fried chicken sandwich from Mighty Quinn's...
One thing that's nice about New York is that it's possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel...
One thing that's nice about New York is that it's possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel...