This Saturday morning started with a run to the market to find a boon of berries, and it continued through fabulous French toast at Cafe 202 (that my friend Alice, French toast connoisseur, pointed me to) with my friend Jenne, who has just moved to New York; and we walked the High Line talking about [...]

What to do with the pile of beautiful zebra tomatoes I returned to this sweltering afternoon? Past ripe, the green streaked with gold became a fresh Bloody Mary: Purée quartered ripe tomatoes in a food processor with a dab of sun-dried tomato paste, a squeeze of lemon, a hearty pinch of sea salt, and—this is [...]

“We’re out of feta, so there’s goat cheese on the beets,” he said (confirming this fact with the other two in the truck). Even better, I thought. It’s the first time I’ve noticed the Schnitzel Truck (@schnitzeltruck) in DUMBO, the area of Brooklyn where I work. A bit more subdued than the @waffletruck, and parked [...]

“This is the best lobster roll in New York, I can promise you that,” she said, handing me a warm, crunchy roll brushed with butter and filled with chunks of lobster within, scallions on top, a little celery beneath, seasoned just so. The roll is reason enough to visit the Brooklyn Flea in DUMBO on [...]

For a few weeks now, I’ve been tracking it, stealthily checking its geoposition. Finally, this morning, I saw it in all its glory: The Waffle Truck (@waffletruck on Twitter) mobilizes wafels and dinges (toppings) to New York with daily secret passwords and wordplay from those within the truck. I ordered a liège (the soft and [...]