The other day I encountered the famous Hallo Berlin cart on 54th Street with only one guy in line and blogged about it. Here’s a shot of a more normal state of affairs, taken today around 1:30.
To readers tiring of the superficial, heavily food-oriented nature of my recent posts: Sorry, I’ve been busy (and hungry).
Two words: garbage plates.
Another in my continuing series of really low-quality cameraphone photos of book parties, this time from the hoedown for Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas Evolving at the Mercedes dealership on Park Avenue Monday night. I took the photo from out on the sidewalk. Inside were a bunch of people who make a whole lot more money than I do …
With David Beckham’s hugely expensive arrival in Los Angeles coming ever closer, it might be worth revisiting just what he’s been doing back in Madrid. From Richard Williams’ blog at Guardian.co.uk:
Last January 13, two days after he announced that he would be moving to Los Angeles next season, Fabio Capello said the Englishman would
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From Bob Herbert’s column in today’s NYT (available to subscribers only):
A lot of New Yorkers are doing awfully well. There are 8 million residents of New York City, and roughly 700,000 are worth a million dollars or more. The average price of a Manhattan apartment is $1.3 million. The annual earnings of the average hedge fund manager
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Last week, Montgomery County, Md., joined New York and Philadelphia in banning partially hydrogenated oils in restaurants. Washington Post columnist/blogger Marc Fisher decried this development:
It’s fairly clear that trans fats are bad for you. And lots of food businesses are reacting to the widespread public opposition to trans fats by
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One last bit of Paul Wolfowitz fun, from an interview in this morning’s Volkskrant with Herman Wijffels, the Dutch executive director at the World Bank who led the internal commission that investigated the Wolfowitz scandal. (And yes, I too find the repeated involvement of Netherlanders in this mess–former World Bank ethics chief Ad …
The Hallo Berlin cart at 54th Street and Fifth Avenue is among the most acclaimed purveyors of street food in New York. So acclaimed that every time I’ve walked by in the past the line was so dauntingly long that I kept going. Not today, though.
I got the “single soul food mix”: bratwurst, German fried potatoes, and red cabbage. Which …
Paul Wolfowitz is now really, truly on the way out (although he is, as has become his custom, dragging it out for as embarrassingly long as possible). So now President Bush will pick a replacement. Whose job should be what, exactly?
The answers to this question I’ve been seeing have mostly been about healing wounds at the bank and …
My latest dead-tree effort is out today, in the issue with Al Gore on the cover and online here. It’s actually in the magazine as a two-page story, part of the thing called “The Well.” But I wrote it as just a slightly longer-than-usual column. Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with the theme:
On May 14, German automaker
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Paul Wolfowitz’s painfully drawn-out exit from the World Bank continues to draw out painfully, as the man with the holey socks tries to work out some sort of deal whereby the World Bank board apologizes for being so mean to him, and he in turn resigns with head held high. In reality, of course, this insistence is making him look ever …
The news about the Pasadena website that has hired two people in India to cover city council meetings from 8,000 miles away, which I wrote about last week, stirred up an awful lot of pontification all over the media and blogosphere (a nice collection of links can be found here).
Most of the virtual ink was spilled lamenting the horror …
