Saturday, April 5, 2008

Farmers Market, Again


It's that time. 
Mark your calendars.

April 20
10am-3pm
County Center, White Plains
Free admission
$4 parking (worth it!)

Monday, March 24, 2008

Bedford Post Inn Cafe

D. played hooky today and we drove up to the Bedford Post Inn (aka Richard Gere's place). Okay, so we had to wait 15 minutes for a table at the cafe. Off we went to the Perennial Garden (treesinyouryard.com) to pick up some organic seeds. By the time we returned, the lunch rush was over and we sat in a quiet corner. D. ordered the beet salad and the farm fresh egg with creamy polenta. I had the veal (I know, I know) with creamy polenta and Gen Mai Cha tea. All very good. But desert...D. ordered a strawberry rhubarb bar. Do not miss it.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Yellow Monkey and Aer Yoga


I tend to listen to A., my cousin's new wife, when it comes to food. She runs Murray's Cheese Shop's web site and is a serious foodie. So, when she told me that her brother F. runs an organic cafe in Cross River, I rounded up two friends and headed North. The cafe is part of Aer Yoga, a studio, shop and cafe (aeryoga.com). We had a yummy zucchini soup, cheese from Sprout Creek Farm (Batch 35, again), Sencha tea and vege burgers. We wandered over to Yellow Monkey Antiques (yellowmonkey.com) and shopped the incredible finds. We particulalry loved the collection of long, wood famer's tables.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Antique Fair

Looking forward to the antique fair at Mamaroneck High School this weekend (March 8-9, 10am-5pm)...as long as they wash off the bathroom walls.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Blue Hill Cafe at Stone Barns

Hiked the trails, saw some cows and stopped off at the cafe for a green tea (oolong, who knew?) and brownie. Enjoyed the weather and scenery so much, forgot to take one photo, and too bad because D. took Z. in the sling for the first time and it was adorable. It was a family affair as my sister and brother-in-law, their two kids, my father and his girlfriend all showed up. 
www.bluehillstonebarns.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Teapot fancy


Off to check out Barbara Barry's newest Wedgwood collection at Bed Bath and Beyond (who can believe it??) in Portchester. I want to see the silver-plated teapot in person ($249.990).

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Converse at Target


Browsed the new Converse One Star collection at the White Plains Target and ended up buying a pair of chinos, shorts, and jeans. Am still looking for the white wrap dress and cargo pants.

Monday, February 25, 2008

240 Rosedale, How I Miss You


Walked the dog by the empty lot, once the site of a wonderfully modern 1949 house by Edward Durell Stone (also responsible for the original Museum of Modern Art and Kennedy Center for Performing Arts) with a fantastic second floor addition by local architect John Mclean. The house was razed not too long ago and a plan for 5 new houses is in the works, which may affect the neighboring house, a gorgeous old structure with an acre pond that was used in the film Unfaithful. Sigh.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Giggle Adventure























D.'s mother and I were in the Greenwich Giggle (www.giggle.com) today looking to supplement the Svan bouncer with a highchair (it's getting to be that time when Z. aka Captain America starts on solids). We love our bouncer ($120) so it was no surprise that we went with the Svan chair ($250).

X2O, finally


For my brother-in-law's birthday, D. and I got to try out X20 (xaviers.com) in Yonkers and enjoyed a great meal. However, most memorable was one of the bottle of wines we ordered: La Rioja Alta, Gran Reserve "904", 1995. My b-in-law found it at Zachy's (zachys.com) in Scarsdale at $95 and worth it.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Poetry Westchester

I love the new initiative between the Westchester library system and Manhattan's Poetry House. This Spring, six libraries will host readings and writing workshops for teens and adults, and the great, great poetess Hettie Jones, "poet in residence" at the Mount Pleasant library, will host Beat Poets: A Talk on April 6, 2pm.
(full schedule at poetshouse.org). 

Let's pay a little homage to Hettie:

Hard Drive

Saturday the stuffed bears were up again
over the Major Deegan
dancing in plastic along the bridge rail
under a sky half misty, half blue
and there were white clouds
blowing in from the west

which would have ben enough
for one used to pleasure
in small doses

But then later, at sunset
driving north along the Saw Mill
in a high wind, with clouds big and drifting
above the road like animals
proud of their pink underbellies,
in a moment of intense light
I saw an Edward Hopper house
at once so exquisitely light and dark
that I cried, all the way up Route 22
those uncontrollable tears
"As though the body were crying"

and so young women
here's the dilemma

itself a solution:

I have always been at the same time
woman enough to be moved to tears
and man enough
to drive my car in any direction

From Hard Drive (Hanging Loose Press, 1998)


Saturday, February 16, 2008

Save the Date for Farmers' Market, March 16


County Center, White Plains, New York
10am to 3pm
Free admission, $4 parking




















Last month D. and I sampled some great finds!  Do not miss:
  • buddha pesto, made with the freshest basil
  • cheese aptly named 35, the amount of tries it took to get it right
  • apple and pear cider from Migliorelli Farms