From left: Marcus Samuelsson, Ed Levine, Gael Greene. After work tonight, Ed will be heading uptown to the 92nd Street Y to discuss "Food Finds and Trends" with Aquavit executive chef Marcus Samuelsson, the insatiable critic Gael Greene, and...
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Most important? Yes. Photograph by thewanderingeater Gael Greene gives us her list of the 14 most important New York City restaurants of the last 40 years. Here are the problems: She never defines what she means by important Her...
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According to Gael Greene, the insatiable critic herself, Chinatown Brasserie is now offering a terrific lunchtime bargain for what may be New York's best dim sum: "8 of Joe Ng's dumplings for $12 and the “dim sum deluxe,” a dozen...
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What a food weekend I had. On Friday night I had dinner at Cafe D'Alsace, on 88th and 2nd Avenue. It's an Alsatian brasserie featuring the cooking of Philippe Roussel. The highlights of the meal: a fine split pea soup...
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I could be telling you about how thrilled I was to get on the scale yesterday after my Monday squash game to find that I am now down 22 pounds (It's probably more like 18 pounds when you factor in...
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I'm in a Gael Greene groove today, maybe because she's my neighbor AND because her sexy memoir is about to come out (more about that later), so here's her late 2004 take on Parisian restaurants . I'm going to call...
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