Gift Of The Day: Minnie Beasley’s Almond Lace Tuiles

[1] Minnie Beasley’s gift tin, filled to the brim with simply delectable almond tuiles (photos #1, #2, #3, and #__ © Minnie Beasley’s). [2] If you’re ordering for yourself and don’t need the gift tin, your tuiles come in a brown bag. The chocolate flavor, shown here, mixes cocoa powder with the standard almonds, butter,…
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GREAT EVENT: Kids Food Festival

Mark your calendars for The Kids Food Festival, an annual event that teaches kids and their parents the art of healthy eating in a fun, non-preachy way. Given the growth of Americans’ girth, we can never have enough opportunities to re-enforce how to make balanced food choices and create good lifelong eating habits. When kids…
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EVENT: Kids Food Fest In NYC, August 26th-27th

Got kids? Got kids who should learn to eat better—while having fun? Take the family to the Kids Food Fest, Saturday and Sunday August 26th and 27th. The Kids Food Fest is a celebration to educate families about making balanced food choices—choices everyone needs to create wholesome, lifelong eating habits. (Parents: You, too can learn…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Summer Crudités & The History Of The Relish Tray

When we were in college, we first learned that our Nana’s “relish tray”—carrot and celery sticks, radishes, olives (photo #3)—could be elevated to something our friend Carolyn—who had spent her junior year abroad in Paris—called crudités. At a dinner one day, she served what we now know as a crudités plate, artfully cut and arranged.…
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EVENT: Mad. Sq. Eats (a.k.a. Madison Square Eats Fun Food Pop-Up)

[1] Beijing street food from Mr. Bing—soon to open a retail location at 152 West 28th Street (photo courtesy Mr. Big). We loved our Peking Duck-inspired rice crêpe. [2] A red velvet ice cream sandwich with cream cheese ice cream from Melt.   It’s one of our favorite times of the year in Manhattan: The…
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