Category: nyc
Blueberry Pie: Remembering Gideon’s, the Last Kosher Bakery in Washington Heights
July 30, 2018
When I first moved to Washington Heights some years back, I was entranced at the idea of living in a real live Jewish neighborhood. There was something faintly mythical about it all—nostalgic, even, for some Disney-fied ancestral past, so unlike the suburban California of my childhood. The wholesome-looking families out on their Shabbos walks. The […]
Pimm’s Cel-Ray Spritz: Pimm’s Goes to the Deli
July 16, 2018
When I was living in England, I fell in love with the Pimm’s Cup. You haven’t lived until you’ve drunk one of these refreshing drinks—made from the quintessentially English gin-based liqueur with herbs and citrus, lemon soda (which the Brits inexplicably and confusingly refer to as “lemonade”) or ginger ale, and copious amounts of cut […]
Goodbye Ben’s Best, One of NYC’s Last Classic Kosher Delis
July 5, 2018
So earlier in the week, when I covered the sad closing of Glaser’s Bake Shop, I promised you I’d be back with an ode to yet another New York institution that shut its doors over the weekend. And that is Ben’s Best, a classic kosher deli that has been a Rego Park, Queens, staple for […]
Goodbye Glaser’s Bake Shop—Plus Glaser’s Brownie Recipe
July 3, 2018
This past weekend was a sad one for NYC foodies. Not one but two old-school establishments shut their doors, after 116 years and 73 years, respectively: Glaser’s Bake Shop on the Upper East Side, and Ben’s Best deli in Rego Park, Queens. Both iconic eateries, both remnants of rapidly dwindling varieties of food establishments in […]
Purim 2018 NYC Bakery Hamantaschen Roundup
February 24, 2018
Welcome to my extremely unscientific and incomplete ramble through New York City’s vast and varied hamantaschen offerings. I hit up a few spots in Manhattan, because I live here, and a few more in Brooklyn (Midwood only this year—I had grand ambitions of venturing further afield, but Brooklyn is far and getting around it is […]