One of my favorite teachers in college would always give us life advice. One of the things she liked to tell us was that when we graduated and eventually got our first paycheck that we should first pay tithing but then we should go spend it however we wanted...so I did!
Mark and I took a day trip to the city and went on a food tour of Greenwich Village, and we LOVED it!
Mark and I took a day trip to the city and went on a food tour of Greenwich Village, and we LOVED it!
We sampled cheese from Murray's (they have about a million different kinds of cheese).
We ate a piece of pizza from Joe's and learned all about their oven, how hot it is, and the kind of tomato they use. This place might look familiar because it was in Spiderman 2.
We ate an olive twist from Amy's Bread and learned about the pastry chef that owns it and how she studied in Europe to learn how to make the crusty French breads.
We had charizo (cuban sausage) at Little Havana and got to meet the 76 year old woman that owns it and cooks all the food. We also got hear about how to get to the bathroom you have to go through the kitchen, so when the health department is there they pretend they don't have a bathroom!
We ate a rice ball (rice rolled with fresh mozzarella and herbs, then rolled in breadcrumbs and flash fried in olive oil) from Faicco's. I've never heard of rice balls but it was delicious!
We had a cinnamon-dusted pecan from a store called Aphrodisia where you can buy any spice you could possible imagine.
We had farroto from this modern Italian restaurant and learned about how their chef was on Top Chef. Farrotto is farro (a barley-like grain) cooked in vegetable stock then mixed with parmesean cheese, crimini mushrooms, and mint.
Then we walked around the historic part of Greenwich Village for a bit and gave our tummies a break. Does anyone recognize this building? (hint: Monica and Rachel lived there.)
Then it was back to the food with a cookie from Milk and Cookies. The owner of this place graduated from the Culinary Institute of America!
Then we saw a sign that our street could definitely use!
Our final stop was at Rocco's Pastries where we had a hand-piped cannoli. YUM!
3 comments:
That looks like fun, we'll have to make it back there...someday.
Wow, it all looks so good. I miss going to a bakery and picking out something from the window. I need to do that sometime.
So cool!! It totally makes me miss NYC! They sure have food for every taste.
And I love the Monica and Rachel building. The huge FRIENDS fan that I am, it's the one thing that I missed seeing when we lived there.
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