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food notes – nyc

Posted 31 August 2006 | By | Categories: culture, emily approved, food, health, senses, shopping, taste | No Comments

The Green Table, one of my favorite city treasures, is expanding their hours to Monday-Saturday Noon til 9pmSundays 11-5 and introducing a dinner prix fixe option: appetizer, entree and dessert for $30, and for $10 more, a 3-course organic wine pairing.They serve up great take-out lunch boxes Monday-Friday.

Scents and Sensibility

Scents and Sensibility

Posted 24 August 2006 | By | Categories: activism, advertising, better world, branding, consumerism, culture, environment, happiness, health, interconnected, Product, science, senses, sustainability, sustainable | No Comments

Chandler Burr translates scent into words so powerfully i just want to close my eyes and inhale his prose…. 5″ left me with more questions and a slightly wan aftertaste.

3 happy-making ice cream discoveries

Posted 14 August 2006 | By | Categories: art, culture, emily approved, food, happiness, health, nyc, observations, shopping, taste, technology | No Comments

Especially the chocolate cabernet and molasses tipsycake…. Sundaes & Cones in the East Village offers ginger, red bean, green tea, lychee, ginger, taro, wasabi, honeydew ice cream cones, cups and cakes and ito-en teas.

the sublime pleasure of chocolate and peanut butter

Posted 07 August 2006 | By | Categories: consumerism, emily approved, food, happiness, health, nyc, passions, senses, taste | No Comments

for making chocolate covered peanut butter cups simply impossible to resist…. so delicious, covering creamy peanutty butter in petite 6o calorie size cups.

links for 2006-05-24

Posted 23 May 2006 | By | Categories: culture, food, health, links, music, people, senses, shopping | No Comments

Nina Planck’s new Real Foods markets to open in lower Manhattan next month.

…Appreciative intelligence can be defined as the capability of perceiving the inherent generative potential within a situation at hand.

on the love that dare not print its name in helvetica (or god forbid, arial)

Posted 01 January 2006 | By | Categories: ask emily, consumerism, creativity, culture, design, emily approved, gardening, happiness, health, movies, passions, typography | No Comments

Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed to [...]