corinne

This is great news. There is no decent restaurant within 5 miles of my Long Valley home.

I love the Black Forest. Well worth the trip.

I hear what your saying, but for those of us used to the drek available in the US, FAGE yogurt is awesome.

Buon Italia usually does have it -

Buon Italia at the Chelsea Market

Fianlly convinced my husband that we can't garden without a compost pile and boy is he a convert. No more dragging big plastic bags full of dirt from the nursery but getting the most beautiful sweet smelling compost from your own veggie scraps. We use a rectangular porcelain enamel containier the size of a shoebox which has a lid as a "GB". My next trick will be the acres of plastic wrap that he swathes everything in. When Robert wraps it stays super fresh, though.

My ex-boyfriend and I had a Christmas Eve gathering one year, very elegant, with the food to be served just so - a multi-course buffet with lots of fish dishes the Italian way. His oafish family started helping themselves out of chafing dishes before the other receptacles were filled. We had a room with French doors that the food was being set up in and tried to close them out, but no luck. Then some cousins arrived hours late. Mr Hypoglycemia with many food allergies who needed food cooked to order immediately. By then the food had been put away, out it came again, with him grilling me on each ingredient.

Opah Grill in Gladstone is the closest good restaurant. Limestone Cafe is pretty good and just a bit further down. Tewksbury Inn is also good, 15 minutes in the other direction. All will be JAMMED! Willie's Tavern is not good. The last meal I had at Venezia last winter was mediocre.

What's the address?

Don't know if anyone's posted about Auroro Creations. I just bought some for my health food store today. A lovely women started packaging spice mixes to send to her son when he was in college in Michigan. Now their blends are sold in Whole Foods and health food stores in the NY-NJ area. Being a nutritionist, I love the implications for disease prevention with many Indian spices, i.e. turmeric as a potent anti-inflammatory in part responsible for low Alzheimer rates in India.

Does Bobolink have a website?

Why are we so shortsighted? I'll eat this "delicious" mcDonald's hamburger today and won't have to deal with the health consequences for twenty years,... I'll buy cheap at Walmart today and worry about the downstream effects when the yuan starts trading at its real value sometime in the future. I think many of us are paralyzed by fear and ignorance, but at least admit there's a BIG problem. Having just read "Fast Food Nation", I was fuming to learn how America subsidizes loans to fast food franchisees who may go bust. Everyone loses but the corporation. Now we are subsidizing Walmart. I went with a friend last week. It was my first time in many years. The prices were so low that it was scary, now I see why.

I was surprised to find them on my morning run through the woods (in the wilds of Morris County, NJ). We harvested a few pounds over the weekend, then noticed them on our own property. Corinne

I agree with the last post - walking through the Chelsea Market to the stores mentioned is great fun - and doesn't require a tour guide by any stretch of the imagination! If the weather is as beautiful as this past weekend make sure you head down 14th street to the Union Square Greenmarket. It's just now bursting into bloom. Corinne

Farm raised salmon has been a blight on the environment and for what? It's practicaly tasteless and the diet of fish meal means that it is lacking in omega-3 fats.