[Photos: Kathy Chan] My heart was beating so fast when I left Pichet Ong's newly opened East Village dessert shop Spot yesterday evening, I had to find a bench and sit down for a minute. My fault. I had...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] Most of us may be a bit old to beg for candy this weekend, but there's no reason to opt out of a festive sugar binge! Celebrate with one of these pumpkin treats all around the...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] A fig tart spotted at Financier, one of their seasonal sweets. A buttery shortbread crust, with chopped almonds piled above marzipan and a shiny caramel glaze. Cuts of fresh tender figs and a solitary raspberry. I...
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[Photos: Robyn Lee] 'Tis the season for sweets, and no one does them like Bouchon Bakery. This year, Thomas Keller's bakeries are packing in the pumpkin, with breakfast pastries, cookies, and more. A few of the goodies, after the...
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] If I lived in Australia, I'd want to eat sticky date pudding all the time. Alas, I don't, so I've only eaten it twice in my deprived life, the second time at The Sunburnt Cow in...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] A friend and I stopped in at my favorite pudding bakery, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, yesterday evening to satisfy a sweet craving. I had pumpkin pudding on my agenda, but lo and behold, there was a new...
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For the month of October, Prune celebrates their ten-year anniversary (impressive!) with a rotation of three special prix fixe menus ($53). Today brings an end to the first menu, in which an extravagant meal of monkfish liver with buttered...
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[Photograph: Kathy YL Chan] I suggest you pumpkin fiends hurry your tushes over to Kyotofu in Hell's Kitchen before the 17th. Pumpkin soft serve (soy-based, like all their soft serves) is on the menu only till the end of...
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[Photographs: Robyn Lee] You still have a few hours tonight and all day tomorrow to visit the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck before Doug Quint closes for the season tomorrow night. I stopped by this afternoon to fit in...
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When summer temperatures cool off and fall begins to settle, pumpkin desserts shoot to the top of my agenda. Whether it appears in cookies, cheesecakes, pudding, gelato, or pie, pumpkin is one of the finest of the fall flavors. Below,...
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