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January 2008

01/28/08

The Shame of English Chocolate

Foodies, like any other group of enthusiasts, love to engage in snobby one-upsmanship. Loser-ish, childish, blatant—honestly, you’d think we’d have better things to do. Here’s a typical conversation:

Foodie 1: "So, I just had the best caviar of my life—Sevruga. It was from Iran, if you can believe it."
Foodie 2: "Really? I heard that was all contaminated with lead. Actually, I was just at an ice hotel. They had a really good caviar, hand-picked by virgins. And, you know, Beluga, obviously."

And so it goes with chocolate, the constant chew-toy of these pathetic foodie trainspotters. When European labeling...

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01/28/08

Toxic Tuna (Or, Why Bottom Feeding Is Good for You)

O the humanity.

According to an article published in the New York Times this week, the sushi being served at some of our favorite restaurants is so loaded with mercury that levels within one meal well exceed what the Environmental Protection Agency considers a safe level per a three week period. In fact, in a tested sample from Japonica (a NYU-area restaurant that we happen to love), the mercury dose in roughly one-and-one-half pieces of tuna was enough to reach the acceptable weekly dose of the poison. Of course, each meal...

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01/21/08

Careful...These Plates Are HOT

Okay, it's mid-January and winter has finally locked us into its frigid, death-like grip. Our lakes are freezing, the ground is crunchy, and as we speak, we’re swaddled in bulky, unattractive sweaters and rag wool socks. Winter can get ugly, folks. But even so, freezing temperatures are fine by us, because summer’s heat is an appetite dampener and nothing makes us hungrier than knowing that bathing suit season is six months off. Sitting here under a slimming lap rug, we’ll always go for that second helping, all the while vowing to get back to the gym one of these days. Or at least get out and shovel the walk ourselves. Next time, that is.

So—which dishes worth bundling up and braving the cold for? We’ve taken a...

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01/14/08

Reclaiming the River: EATER’s Respectful Thanks to The Chart House and the Hudson River’s Polluting Industries

When we heard that the Chart House was shuttering its tacky, nautical-themed doors (to be re-opened by the team behind Harvest-on-Hudson), it set us to thinking: we actually owe our thanks to the Chart House. Until Harvest-on-Hudson opened in 2000, the Chart House was Westchester’s premier riverfront restaurant. When Harvest's site was a still Robison Oil truck depot and X20’s luxe premises were still the derelict Yonkers Recreation Pier, the Chart House was proving that the Hudson waterfront was viable for a large, successful, ambitiously-priced restaurant. At the time, this was by no means a foregone conclusion.

Now we revere the Hudson waterfront for...

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01/07/08

New Year's Revolutions: Things We Are Soooo Over in 2008

New Year's is a time of renewal, of shedding old habits and instituting new ones. In that spirit, we’re devoting this week's post to our least favorite restaurant tics – the ones that we see every day, and would like to see disappear. Some of these are overused classics, some are tired old fads, and some are evil new practices. All need a fresh outlook and a new direction.

If you'd like to add your own restaurant pet peeves to our list, please email EATER at comments@westchestermagazine.com.  

Maryland Crab Cakes
Last I checked, neither of the two bodies of water...

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01/02/08

Buzz Buzz Buzz

Okay—we've recovered from the bubbly and oysters (and foie gras and bacon and smoked salmon...) of our annual champagne pig-out in front of the fire. Call us lame, but we enjoy ourselves so much more at home, where we can wear our fetching stripey-pajamas-and-fuzzy-slippers ensemble and there are no drunken idiots blowing noisemakers in our faces. So we gathered all our favorite gourmet treats and spent the last hours of 2007 gorging ourselves—no dropping ball, no Times Square, no Auld Lang Syne. After a midnight toast, we crawled off to bed.

Now it’s time face 2008. (Though, to be honest, we’ll be misdating checks for a good six months). So—what are the biggest food stories that we’ll be...

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Julia Sexton

Julia Sexton
Westchester County

Julia Sexton is a Westchester-based food writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Boston Globe and a host of other publications. An avid traveller and eater, she is currently on the United States Agricultural Department's Most Wanted list for crimes involving the illegal importation of lardo.

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