NY JapanTown Healty Food and Green Festival

Yesterday was the NY JapanTown Health Food and Green Festival. The festival took place in Midtown, on Madison Avenue between 43rd and 45th streets. Promoting a healthy lifestyle using Japanese ingredients and cooking methods, the festival aims to enlighten New Yorkers about the many wholesome foods and flavors of Japan and how to incorporate them [...]

World’s Candy Cigarettes

If I learned anything from 1960s advertising and Clint Eastwood movies, it’s that smoking cigarettes are cool. However, there has always been one major hurdle preventing me from epic coolness and it’s something men in white suits diagnose as lung cancer. But regardless of your views on cigarettes and the potential, — okay, almost certain [...]

Shinzi Katoh “Zakka” Placemats

It’s okay if you’re at an age where you have responsibilities or a job, dinner placemats are for grownups too! Japanese designer Shinzi Katoh is one the leaders in Zakka, or “various goods,” a group of products in Japan with a positive outlook. It could be a wooden clothespin by an obscure company in New [...]

Food and Drinks at Lollapalooza 2010

… And that about wraps up my food adventures at this year’s Lollapalooza. The culinary lineup featured about 30 food and beverage choices… and here are my stories… Chow Town is where the food is at Can’t resist Sweet Leaf Tea‘s delicious organic teas and the cute granny Lobster corn dog from Graham Elliot totally [...]

Mazzone’s Italian Ice @ Lollapalooza

Sometimes your appetite just gets totally destroyed by the hot, sticky weather. We’ve drank many cans of sweet tea. We already grabbed a smoothie. What about nice sweet, cold treat for dessert? – Italian Ice, it is!! Over at Mazzone’s Italian Ice, they were offering a list of Italian ice, dessert crepes, and gelato, each [...]