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Salted Crack Caramel

Prospect Heights: Ample Hills Creamery

The ice cream at Ample Hills Creamery in Prospect Heights is more creamy, rich, dense, and satisfying than all other ice cream my lips and taste buds have come across.  Ample Hills, you are on an ice cream plateau, sitting high above lesser ice cream parlors. I am kind of in love with you.  Oh [...]

Octopus Sashimi

Queens: Sik Gaek

Queens is my gastronomic utopia.  Tibetan momos plump with yak meat, tacos filled with lengua, live octopus and lobsters slowly steaming to their purposeful end in a hot-pot brimming with nuanced broth–this is the borough that captures my heart. Order the octopus hot pot (to be shared between four to five people) at Sik Gaek, [...]

Salted Crack Caramel

Prospect Heights: Ample Hills Creamery

The ice cream at Ample Hills Creamery in Prospect Heights is more creamy, rich, dense, and satisfying than all other ice cream my lips and taste buds have come across.  Ample Hills, you are on an ice cream plateau, sitting high above lesser ice cream parlors. I am kind of in love with you.  Oh [...]

Octopus Sashimi

Queens: Sik Gaek

Queens is my gastronomic utopia.  Tibetan momos plump with yak meat, tacos filled with lengua, live octopus and lobsters slowly steaming to their purposeful end in a hot-pot brimming with nuanced broth–this is the borough that captures my heart. Order the octopus hot pot (to be shared between four to five people) at Sik Gaek, [...]

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NYC: Dominique Ansel Bakery

When I was in Brittany, I ate a pastry that haunted my dreams.  I also ate oysters, cider, butter, and galettes (savory buckwheat crepes) in Brittany that haunted my dreams, but what I was thinking about obsessively on the bus back to Paris was this extremely buttery, flaky, slightly sweet, croissant-like pastry-cake thing with a [...]