I always crave seafood on summer weekends, and this afternoon I sautéed a soft-shell crab in lard to top roasted red potatoes with pesto.
(Flour the crab, tap off excess, fry in two tablespoons of fat on high heat for two minutes a side.)

Tempted to make pesto from whatever green winks at me in the [...]

is a curious thing / makes me laugh / makes me sing…more than a feeling—that’s the power of lunch.
Like that perfect karaoke song that includes an air guitar riff, simple lyrics that can be spoken/shouted instead of sung, and an ending the audience will clap for (“The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and [...]

Soon after checking in on Sunday, I convinced my colleague Paula to go from the Hudson Hotel to Hudson Street for brunch at the Fatty Crab, where the menu builds on pork belly.

I would return for the “belly & egg”—pork belly and a fried egg on a brioche triangle (and for another cocktail that [...]