Siddity in the City

I am slowly putting together a post or two about the past month, but I find myself distracted by longings for a UK Starbucks skinny stem ginger muffin.
Reason #687 London tops New York in my book.

I think food has officially jumped the shark.
Food obsession in popular culture isn’t exactly new, but we’ve certainly reached a new level of media saturation.
Celebrity chefs are everywhere except in the kitchen. Tyler Florence is stumping for Applebees. Tommy Colicchio, when he isn’t busy opening another Craft-y gastrohaunt he won’t actually be working in, […]

THE PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE IS BACK!
*runs to nearest Starchucks to mainline GSPSL*
Holy shit! Don’t they usually wait until October to put it back on the menu? They must know how cracktastically addictive it is. Soon they’ll be serving it year round because THEY KNOW I CANNOT RESIST! AND NEITHER CAN YOU!
*happy-dancing from GSPSL beginning to […]

Yesterday, 12 hour brunch with Stolie, Bro and crew.
See, what had happened was, Stolie and I decided early on to have lunch, so we agreed to meet around 1:30 at Aussie haunt Eight Mile Creek (240 Mulberry, between Spring and Prince).
Australians, kangaroo meat and a back garden. What?
So we go, we head for […]

Mmmmmmmm. Mm. Mmmm.
Say it with me, now: zabaglione. (Need a little help? Okay. Zah-ball-yoh-neh.) An egg based, custard-y creme plopped over fresh fruit.
Easiest “it-tastes-impossibly-expensive-and-fancy-but-I-swear-I-made-it-myself” dessert ever. And it’s quick and inexpensive to make. I made some just this afternoon, in about 20 minutes. I used the recipe in Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks […]