Divalicious Chocolate! is restructuring. We are keeping the chocolate tastings and events, the chocolate-fountain rentals and our online store, but we are closing our brick-and-mortar retail store effective immediately. We had fun but the economy and the landlord made it a lot less fun! So we are happily closing and look forward to doing lots more fun stuff with chocolate and more in the future.
We visited the Dia Museum in Beacon, New York, yesterday. Favorite works of art: Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses and Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawings. I want to live inside Serra’s works, paint the interiors white and draw all over the walls like Lewitt.
My favorite works of eat were from Homespun Foods on Main Street in Beacon.
We had a ball in Asbury Park this past Saturday with friends. The boardwalk’s renaissance seems to be on the upswing in spite of the economy and the damp start to the season. Sandwiched between the reviving the Asbury Park Convention Hall on one end of the board walk and the Asbury Park Casino (where a scene from “The Wrestler” was shot) on the other is lots of upmarket and interesting food places, shops, bars and FUN!!! We almost skipped lunch to jump the fence and play under the giant hose, watering can and more in the Asbury Water Park, but we didn’t have the obligatory child to get us in.
For me July 4th screams potato salad! My Southern-style one is colorful and tastes like a parade in mouth!
When it comes right down to it the Fancy Food Show (FFS) is not pretty or easy. Three days of tasting, even doing just three hours per day, is hard work! My new system of eating only savory food for the first two hours and doubling back for the sweet stuff for the last hour worked really well, but by the end of second day my buds and my dogs were B-E-A-T! and I had yet to set foot upstairs.
The next morning I was toast. Is there such thing as a food hangover? Or was it wine flu from the foodparty.com event the night before? Duty called so I dragged myself back for the love of cheese and smoked, fried, cured, marinated pork products that was my day three and it seemed to “cure” whatever was ailing me. Last night, I had a huge salad to ward off the scurvy and today I bring you my fancy food finds (if not necessarily faves).
After tasting all day at the Fancy Food we took a break on the Highline, which I was seeing for the first time—Gorgeous! I see picnics furnished at Chelsea Market in my future. After a perfect respite from the feeding, we headed over the food party hosted by School House Kitchen, Jimmys No.43 and Edible Manhattan to feed some more.
Yesterday, friends and I planned a picnic at Hudson River Park in spite of the storm warnings—since it ain’t the weather report, it’s the weather opinion. We were hopeful that Mother Nature would spare us on what was finally a beautiful, dry day in the city. I coordinated the food that folks were bringing, but I’d yet to make a dish by 6pm (event start time) when I was back in my cafe, after Jackie’s Mad Dash, aka my usual Friday schedule. I figured the blackened sky and deluge that met my much prompter friends bought me a bit of time so I whipped up this zingy salad lightning fast.
When you say rum, I hear mojito!!! It’s my new favorite beverage, mostly due to the use of tons of fresh mint, which I adore! So when I read on Peter Shankman’s HARO about the opportunity to score an invite to the Brugal rum-tasting, I heard a Mojito calling me and my hand shot up!
On the run from the Brugal Rum tasting to the Culture Catch karaoke party, I had a rumbling in my tummy. Luckily, I was by the slammingest falafel joint in the West Village, Taim.
Make Music New York at Divalicious Chocolate was a hoot! Here are some photos from the day! Thanks to everyone who performed and supported the performers. YOU ALL ROCK!!! And you don’t have to play rock for that to be true!