On a recent un-wintry Wednesday, two days after his latest book arrived on shelves, Calvin Trillin, the 71-year-old writer, humorist and food-lorist, sat in his West Village townhouse looking perplexed. Three S-shaped lines were etched across his forehead, and whenever he spoke, they squiggled up and down like waves.
“I wasn’t exactly aware that I Read More
We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver America’s new old favorite energy “alternative”—coal. I remember the C.B. craze and trucker-oriented movies and television shows Read More
We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver America’s new old favorite energy “alternative”—coal. I remember the C.B. craze and trucker-oriented movies and television shows Read More
For women and gay male Park Slopers, the day after Thanksgiving marks not the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, but the arrival from points north of the neighborhood’s handsome French-Canadian Christmas-tree salesmen
For the last six years, Nicolas and Louis have driven down from Montreal to set up their ephemeral tree sale outside the Read More
On my first visit to Yumcha, a new Chinese restaurant in the West Village, I sat at the counter. Five cooks were working at breakneck speed in the open kitchen-the scene was almost comic, like a movie on fast-forward. As I watched the cooks at work, a middle-aged man in an open-necked shirt and Read More
A Fresh Face in Tribeca
Lives Up to Its Name
“Is this place done?” One of my friends stared at the two blurry color blow-ups of part of a seascape that were pinned to the wall with thumbtacks. We had just sat down to dinner at Fresh, a new seafood restaurant in Tribeca, which Read More
“Actually, it’s rather nice that it’s so quiet,” said my companion one afternoon after the only other customers in the dining room had left. “It makes me feel pleasantly sleepy and like taking a nap.”
We had just finished a lavish lunch in the newly refurbished restaurant at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, so he could Read More
