Dear Friends, I am looking for a logo. If you find one that might belong to me, please let me know. It looks kind of simple, unfinished, and sweet. Not like the steaming pot sketch pictured above, exactly, but a logo that evokes a similar vintage preschool feel. And if it comes with a silly poem…well, then that’s even better.

Picture provided by Adam.

DBGB • A WIENER IN DISGUISE is still a wiener

Every now and then I crave hot dogs. This usually occurs during the summer, somewhere in Central Park downwind from a strategically placed food cart.

I didn’t crave the DBGB hot dog yesterday, but I ordered it anyway; I was curious to see how Daniel Boulud would dress up a wiener… (continue)

Cookie Monster and @multisync look on as the judges announce their chocolate choices.

See more photos of Sunday’s Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment over at TONY, Metromix, and Always Hungry. As always, you can read my Nanaimo chocolate bar ordeal on the ever-excellent Amy Blogs Chow. Toot toot. Beep beep.

…as featured on Midtown Lunch today!

Chocolate BREAK/COUNTDOWN

6:19PM UPDATE Somehow, I survived the day or as Jackie put it – lived to tell about it. I haven’t said much since 4PM, actually, when I stopped having to shout over the DJ: “These are NA-NIE-MO bars! They’re from Canada! And they taste like Andes mint with a crushed cookie base!” I was flustered as hell during the first hour – refilling empty plates is a challenge when contestants are serving side-by-side, elbow-to-elbow – but Jason handled the plating with aplomb while I stood behind my poster wondering what it would’ve been like on the sampling side (continue reading…)

Chocolate FOR THE WIN

I went as ZAGAT to the 25th anniversary celebration of the French Culinary Institute on Monday night (continue…)