I spent several weeks lately in countries that drive on the left, and a few times almost got run over from looking the wrong way as I stepped into the street, and when I was driving in New Zealand, two or three times I turned into the wrong lane of traffic–happily, not with any damaging Read More
Boarding the flight to Auckland, I held my knapsack in my
right hand and, in my left, a pressed shirt and pressed jacket, both on hangers
in the dry cleaner’s plastic sleeves, and when the flight attendants greeted me
I said, “Do you think I might be able to hang these up?” The nearer one Read More
Triomphe, in the newly refurbished Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street, is not like any hotel dining room I’ve been in before. This tiny gem of a restaurant is hidden behind a pocket-size bar off the lobby, a small, windowless space with a white-domed, neoclassical ceiling, a polished walnut floor and only 11 tables. Eating Read More
Returning recently to the premises that once housed the Black Sheep restaurant in the West Village, I was reminded of a Bette Davis movie called June Bride . She plays a bossy magazine editor who goes to an old Victorian house in preparation for a wedding. Before you can say “less is more,” all the Read More
