Category: Manhattan

Friday the 13th – the bunch of us said goodbye after work to a departing colleague by going to Centrico in Tribeca. I had a variation of fried green tomato (tasty); wine (red Sauvignon Cabernet from Chile – some year that I don’t remember; only one glass, ’cause I’m cheap and I don’t drink all that much anyway); (plus I never said no to the guacamole and chips); and for dessert: mexican molten chocolate cake. The sangria kept coming for the crew. Thumbs up!

Sunday the 15th – at the Cobble Hill movie theater, saw Harry Potter movie number 5 – Order of the Phoenix. Thumbs up. The path toward greater darkness moves onward for young Potter. Pros: The actor who plays Harry is definitely getting better as an actor; and got to love seeing solid British actors stay employed. The director did a good job cutting much of the unnecessary parts of the book and made a strong complimentary movie counterpart. Con: do not sit behind tall people in a movie theater. You’d think I’d figure that out by now!

An article on ice cream in the city.

Hmm. Been watching these Food Network shows. Man, do I need to do more walking; just watching food be made and described make me feel fat.

Went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art today to see the New Greek-Roman Galleries. Dizzyingly Awesome! You can be there all day to stare at the stuff.

July 4th news item: Kobayashi loses to Joey Chestnut, a civil engineering student from CA. They ate 60+ dogs. Watching them on the big screen tv — well, made me nauseous. I like a hot dog as much as anyone else, but competitive eating is just gross.

A NY Times article on those yummy kettle cooked potato chips – well, I do so love a chip! In the accompanying slide show, they had the Kettle Brand Chips as number one (well, weren’t they the ones who started the whole kettle cooked trend?), with the Cape Code chip and Lay’s Kettle Cooked Original (umm, yeah, I’ve been eating those too much lately… – can’t be a good sign, is it?).

NY Times has San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson talking about making butter.

Writer Neal Pollack on being a dad trying to get a hot dog for the kid – Costco was the answer, apparently, but he had to figure that out from his own dad’s advice.

Dark chocolate can be good for you! You just can’t overeat it, though.

A Slate article on the previous Transformers movie (cartoon, not live action), and the 1980s phenomenon that was The Transformers for those of us of a certain generation.

The passing of opera singer/arts supporter Beverly Sills.