March 2006

It’s Here!

by zora on March 16, 2006

Yeah, baby. Moon Handbooks Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque is in my hot little hands, and it can be in yours too. Well, by the end of the month, anyway: the official release date is March 28. So far, I have not flipped open to a random page and cringed in embarrassment, which is about [...]

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Au Revoir, Cook’s Illustrated

by zora on March 14, 2006

So Peter rearranged the kitchen with nifty new Metro shelving, and in the process made me acutely conscious of how many issues of Cook’s Illustrated I’ve got piled up. They seem sort of redundant now, because I bought access to the recipe database on the Cook’s website, and I can’t remember when I last sat [...]

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Since I’ve been back in NYC, I’ve had a relatively low workload and a fresh appreciation of all the nifty things to do here. So when I got really, really hungry the other night, I suggested to Peter that we go try Minangasli, an Indonesian restaurant in Elmhurst that’s gotten a lot of coverage in [...]

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Astoria Real Estate Reality Check

by zora on March 14, 2006

Perusing the Craigslist residential listings, and I found this deeply flawed ad: Large 1 Family House Located In The Heart Of Astoria Queens 14-14 30th Road [if by "heart" you mean "near the projects and away from the train"]. **House was recently used by Warner Brothers to film “The Bedford Diaries” – a brand new [...]

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