The Trinida Moruga Scorpion Pepper is now considered the world’s hottest pepper. The spiciness of a pepper is measured in Scoville units which measures the amount of capsaicin in the pepper. Now let’s put this in perspective. The average jalapeño pepper has 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units. Sounds pretty spicy, right? The Trinida Moruga Scorpion [...]
Kim Kardashian thinks Jeremy Lin is cute. Now her publicist claims that she is setting them up on a date. The inevitable coupling into “Karlin” or “Dashremy,” “Klin?” Anyway. The relationship would have to start somewhere. Can you imagine their first romantic date? I can and did. Now I’m sharing it with you. These are [...]
I love old photos of New York. Right now the Museum of the City of New York’s archives has a collection of photographs taken in 1938 by Sol Libsohn titled “Food in New York.” They are terrific. The above photo shows live sheep arriving on pier 78. The sheep was very fresh back in 1938.
Every year there are a group of films nominated for an Academy Award that I didn’t see, forcing me to wildly guess on my Oscar pool. Those are the short films. Why have a category for films no one ever had the chance to see? And these nominees are the 5 best? So how many [...]
Today is Phil Collins Day! On this day every year Phil Collins comes down your chimney and whispers into your ear as you sleep, “Can you feel it coming in the air tonight?” No? I cannot believe it’s true, but it IS Phil Collins Day and a group of “Philiacs” (a word I just made [...]
Whether or not you’re single, dating, or married for 150 years now, I’m betting your Valentine’s celebrations or anti-celebrations have been pretty similar year after year. Maybe some dinner, candy, flowers, drinks, drinks or drinks? This year let’s go big or go home! Or at least go big and then go home at the appropriate [...]
In honor of New York Knicks breakout star I give you a Jeremy Lin Pinterest. Meet Linterest,
San Francisco’s Animal Care & Control is teaming up with Virgin America to fly a bunch of chihuahuas to NYC to hopefully be adopted for Valentine’s Day. Over breeding of chihuahua’s in San Fran has turned out to be a boon for NYC. There are just so many empty purses in NYC in need of [...]
You’re not a real New Yorker until you’ve been nearly clipped by someone on a bicycle acting like this is their city and you’re just a guest in it. Shawn Browne and friends mounted cameras to different parts of their bicycles as they cruised and weaved around NYC. The result is “NYC Ave,” a 9 [...]
Sadly the McRib is no longer with us, but the good news is the Shamrock Shake is back, baby! McDonald’s loves playing it’s little hide and seek game with their minty vanilla beverage never telling the public which locations will serve it every year. Normally, you have to have the luck of the Irish to [...]