The City Sweet Tooth

Dekalb Market to Reopen April 1st! (Eater) Momofuku Milk Bar in Carroll Gardens Opens Tomorrow! (Eater) A Look at Food Trends! (Webegirls) DKNY to Make Cupcake Fragrances! (Cupcakes Take the Cake) A Look at Macaron Parlor! (Serious Eats) Doughnut Plant LES Has Expanded! (Grub St.) Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Choice Eats was so fun this year and there were loads of great sweets. Here’s a comic with my highlights! Tweet //

Sweet Shop Boom in UWS! (DNAinfo) Choice Streets Sold Out! (Fork in the Road) Umami Food & Art Fest Coming in April! (Eater) A Look at New Vegan Bakery, Blossom! (Serious Eats) Payard Chocolate Macaron Recipe! (Fork in the Road) Mad. Sq. Eats. to Return April 4th! (Eater) Baking Bean Starts Dessert Delivery! (NY Times) [...]

Grub Street reports that City Sweet Tooth fave Robicelli’s will have a cookbook come out in Fall 2013 from Penguin imprint Viking Studio! Allison Robicelli and her husband Matt will write it and it will include recipes, essays, and comics by yours truly! My biggest congrats go out to the Robicellis, I am thrilled to [...]

Choice Eats was, as always a fabulous tasting event! There was plenty for me to check out dessert-wise as well as loads of interesting and exotic savories and drinks too. This year Andy Rourke (of The Smiths) DJed too, glam and new wave, just my style! Here are some of the best shots I got [...]

It’s not too late to celebrate Pi Day (3/14). Here are some fun Pi day links! Pi Day Sweetness! (Cakespy) Happy Pi(e) Day! (Serious Eats) Fried Pi! (Blondie & brownie) 5 Pies to Celebrate Pi Day! (Fork in the Road) Tweet //

Last week I got to attend a special event at Godiva’s New York flagship store (at 650 Fifth Avenue) to celebrate their new limited edition line of Spice & Nut Chocolates. The chocolates are a collaboration with Chef Michael Antonorsi of San Diego area’s Chuao Chocolatier. This is part of an exciting initiative Godiva is introducing [...]

Here’s another fun tasting event to look forward to this Spring: New Taste of the Upper West Side! It will be take place Wednesday May 16th, Friday May 18th, and Saturday May 19th, and feature such luminaries as Gael Greene, Andrew Zimmern, and Adam Richman. Dessert participants will include Jacques Torres, Bomboloni,  Momofuku Milk Bar, [...]

More cheese adventures in France! This happened in Angoulême at the lovely Restaurant L’Espérance. Many thanks to Xavier and the SCARCE gang for making it all possible! Tweet //