Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Latkes for Chanukah
I can’t believe I don’t have a latke recipe on my website. I mean a real, traditional full-fat potato pancake. Fried! Did I need to say that? I do have a baked latke recipe. It’s nice. It contains wheat germ. It’s healthy. It’s not the same. And somehow I never got to posting the fried potato pancake recipe that this baked latke Maven’s Diary entry promised back in 1999
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Friday, December 9, 2005
Tempo Restaurant, Brooklyn
I know you all know that I live in Park Slope, in Brooklyn. As I am a third generation Brooklynite (one grandparent was born in Russia), and a Brooklyn lover even while the borough was down and out and I was living in Manhattan for nearly 25 years, I keep saying “I’m back where I belong.” Indeed, when I would drag my Manhattan friends to Brooklyn in the 1970s through the mid ‘90s – to eat, to play, to tour, and to just visit -- they would say “Oh, Arthur is taking us to the holy land.”
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
A Holiday Offer
I, who always wait until the last minute to do any kind of necessary shopping – like for gifts, or a new suit for a special occasion -- went holiday and my niece’s birthday present shopping on Saturday, weeks before deadline. I was so proud of myself. I took an extremely pleasant walk down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, where there are now, on the stretch between Flatbush Avenue and the BQE, young women’s wear designer boutiques (okay, I don’t exactly know what to call them), antique stores (as there have been for ages, except that they are much higher class these days), and a superior cookware store in A Cook’s Companion, which happens to be stocking autographed copies of Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food and is amidst the old Middle Eastern stores that have been there for decades.
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