Happy National Pretzel Day! Do you like them hard or soft? Hot or cold? Salty or sweet? These are the tough questions we face every year on National Pretzel Day. You make your call and then head over to the best pretzels in New York City, San Francisco & Austin. These pretzels are making me [...]
The grilled cheese sandwich is simple, elegant, and timeless. The first grilled cheese sandwich was created by Stewart Cheese in the lower east side of Manhattan. Originally it contained no cheese at all and was just two pieces of bread “grilled” by ironing them on an ironing board. One day Stewart Cheese gave one of [...]
Aw! A happy new celebrity couple. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer pair of people. (Actually, it really could have.) I wonder what their celeb nickname will be. KimYe? Kanyashian? Dashwestian? Whatever name sticks, I know we all are already wondering where this romance is headed, probably to some romantic dinner dates. I don’t [...]
It’s International Waffle Day! Hooray! Like you really need an excuse to have waffles. Waffles are amazing; crisp, fluffy, often sweet, sometimes savory. If you can’t decide where to get your waffles today, or any day, and you keep going back and forth between which place to go (basically waffling on your waffles), then I’ll [...]
St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow. That means the training you’ve been doing all year is about to pay off. Get all the Blarney Stone kissing, leprechaun catching, sheleighly shakin’, Irish eye smilin’ out of the way first thing. Remember you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning. (Please drink responsibly, if [...]
On this day in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was murdered by conspiring senators. Afterwards those senators all went out for salads and the Caesar salad was born. Okay, that’s not what happened. They all when out for Italian. The Caesar salad was invented by Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant running restaurants in Mexico. So technically [...]
Today is 3/14 and that makes it Pi Day! The only way to celebrate Pi Day is with pie, of course. You’re probably wishing someone would put together a list of the 3.14 best pie places in your city. Well good luck that with that. It’ll never happen! Best pies in New York City Two [...]