A Trattoria Supplies the Goods To Chefs and Food Lovers Alike

“Try these,” our beautiful, dark-haired Albanian waitress said as she set down a bowl of hard, peppery biscuits on the table. They looked like miniature pretzels.

“Aren’t they good?” she asked. They were. Called taralli, they come from Sicily and go nicely with a glass of wine and some of the green Nocellara olives, also Read More

A Nice Coopa Tea With Alan Bennett

I don’t know of a funnier Englishman than Alan Bennett, or one who’s quite so quirkily, appealingly odd . He has us convulsed with laughter about peculiar things (and peculiar people). To see his very appealing Talking Heads at the Minetta Lane is to enter a world where disappointment is oxygen and small, eccentric lurches Read More