I’m still a little bitter over the loss of the French bakery on Broadway. But I can understand it. Astoria is not a French neighborhood. And for some reason, its residents seem impervious to the use of butter and sugar in the right proportions. But a Craiglist ad suggests that the (I thought) successful Laziza, [...]
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A few days ago I was enjoying my ad hoc lunch of fried egg, tomato chunks tossed around in hot butter and, in lieu of toast, big croutons fried up with some leftover pesto. I was reading the paper and not really paying a great deal of attention to what I was eating, except to [...]
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Without revealing salient details, I just want to mention an odd editorial debate that’s going on with one of the publishers I write for. In a nutshell, the problem is whether a book should recommend songs (relevant to the destination) that have explicit lyrics.
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Not that you were missing my Sisyphean Thai-dining adventures, probably. I know I wasn’t–I’d totally forgotten about it in the whole server-move shenanigans, and it wasn’t till I went to write a new post that I realized it had been abandoned, like a 3-year-old accidentally left behind in the mall during the Christmas-shopping chaos. So [...]
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I'm Zora O'Neill. I travel and eat. I'm a:
*Guidebook author for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides
*Co-author of cookbook Forking Fantastic! Put the Party back in Dinner Party
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