Island Creek Oyster Bar
First published in The New York Times on January 14, 2011. Read the original with comments here.
Island Creek Oyster Bar brings a special twist to the trend of farm-to-table restaurants: the small farms carefully listed next to each dish on Oyster Creek’s menu specialize in aquaculture, the raising of seafood and shellfish. [...]
NY Times Travel Q&A: Puerto Rico or Tortola for a 30th Anniversary
First published in The New York Times on January 11, 2011. Read the original with comments here.
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My husband and I will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary this February. Could you recommend a special resort setting in Puerto Rico or Tortola? Puerto Rico because it’s close and Tortola because [...]
Pinball Museums Light Up Around the Country
First published in The New York Times on December 17, 2010. Read the original with comments here.
STEP inside the Shops at Georgetown Park, a shopping mall in Washington, D.C., and you’ll find two nine-foot-tall flippers and a giant floating silver ball. It’s not a piece of public art — it’s the entrance to [...]
4 Towns, 4 Tasty New Reasons to Visit
First published in The New York Times on November 17, 2010. Read the original with comments here.
Preston Hollow
Bees Knees Cafe
For nearly 200 years, the old farmhouse on Broome Center Road has been the heart of Heather Ridge, a working farm in the Catskills town of Preston Hollow. For the last year, it’s [...]
The Blind Pig
First published in The New York Times on August 8, 2010. Read the original here.
At the Blind Pig, Joseph Frase, the chef and an owner, smokes his own sausage in the backyard — appropriate for a restaurant in Louisville’s Butchertown neighborhood. His menu reflects the working-class history of the area, with upscale renditions of pan-European [...]
In New Orleans, New Life by the River
First published in The New York Times on June 27, 2010. Read the original, with photos, here.
For residents of the blue-collar Bywater-Marigny area of New Orleans, access to the Mississippi River has been blocked for years by decaying industrial buildings. But it won’t be much longer, thanks in part to R. Allen Eskew, an architect [...]
