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  • Our Christmas Dinner 2009

    Our friends, two sisters – YS & HS, are notorious for their elaborate dinners – all made from scratch, with no substitutes or shortcuts.  We have been fortunate enough to know them for more than a decade and had enjoyed many Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners over the years.  YS just finished renovation of her apartment

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  • NYC food porn: Telepan #6-#10

    For Telepan’s menu and photos of our appetizers, check our earlier post here: Telepan #1-#5 One of my pet peeves about restaurants has always been the lighting, which is mostly way too dark to see what is on the plate.  At Telepan, the room was comfortably lit.  The waitstaff was professional and the tables were

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  • NYC food porn: Telepan #1-#5

    This was a group effort, eating-wise.  Seven of us, the usual suspects plus Patrick who was visiting from Chicago, went to Telepan on 69th and Columbus.  They offered a four- or five -course tasting menu.  The five-course menu includes cheese.  We opted for the four-course dinner which gives us six choices each of an appetizer,

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  • Christmas Bash / Nor’easter

    Last night we went to the annual christmas bash in Montclair. As always, we had a great time: conversations, live music, carol singing, food and drinks, karaoke, etc.  Calebc and Shecrow are great hosts, thank you.  Outside was a roaring Nor’easter tearing up the East Coast.  The snow storm persisted much of the evening and

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