Whether it's nostalgia or retro rehash run amok, cupcakes have become a ubiquitous part of New York City's specialty bakeries. To me, they have seemed a curse; the creation of bandana-wrapped,tattooed pastry decorators plopping grotesque colored frostings and...
My friends (and fellow bloggers) Zen Chef and Mindful Eats recently proposed a creative tweet-up, which basically is an offline collaboration organized via Twitter. On a service break at work, I ran from my mid-town NYC kitchen downtown to Nolita. There, at The...
