frites & fries

“Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn-based artist who is...

Oct 1st

Do Not Want: Spam Cinnabun

See the recipe at Houston’s My Table Magazine.

Oct 1st

Want: Cookie Dough

Vegan cookie dough! Bake it or eat it. (via)

Oct 1st

Oct 1st

Remember the 1989

Remember the Tankman of Tiananmen Square? Here are perspectives from four photographers…(from...

Oct 1st

Julene découpe le papier avec brio, et créé des...

Sep 30th

Tuesday, 6:00pm. Lower East Side, New York City. Doughnuts...

Sep 29th

Look at these invitations from Brooklyn’s Paperfinger!...

Sep 29th

Want: Musically Inspired Cutting Bored

It’s called a Chopin Bored! Want badly.

Sep 29th

Listen

“Blackbird”, The Beatles.

Sep 29th

There’s a website that turns everything into BIG GIANT...

Sep 29th

Link: Confessionizer

Sep 29th

Monday, 5:29pm. Murray Hill, New York City. Baking those...

Sep 29th

Oatmeal Smiths

This evening, I made oatmeal cookies with little apple bits in them. Why did I name these cookies...

Sep 29th

(photo via) Hmm…I’m really itching to host a...

Sep 29th

Annie's Farmhouse Quiche

A Minnesotan twist on the traditional quiche Alsacienne, introducing my Farmhouse Quiche. This is...

Sep 29th

from Moschino Cheap & Chic Spring 2010 Prêt-à-Porter,...

Sep 28th

Mesclun greens are just plain healthy. (via The American...

Sep 28th

Jan Kallwejt’s illustration of San Francisco’s...

Sep 28th

Sunday, 6:30pm. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A self portrait. I...

Sep 28th

Sep 28th

Sunday, 3:30pm. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After we brunched at...

Sep 28th

Beau Grealy.

Sep 27th

The first picture is from pfly, “Blue Dusk”. Do...

Sep 27th

Saturday, 2:49pm. Kips Bay, New York City. I ate the...

Sep 26th

The first picture is from my flickr page, margaritas!...

Sep 26th

Dark Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

Cold nights and warm cookies, preferably dipped in hot chocolate. I’m actually excited for...

Sep 26th

Martin Plonka has a whole chart organizing the different...

Sep 25th

[Shameless Self Promotion]. I didn’t realized how...

Sep 25th

(via)

Sep 25th

Friday, 6:36 am. Gramercy, New York City. Diners get an...

Sep 25th

Hanne Hvattum. (via)

Sep 25th

Lately in the mornings, I’ve been replaying Wham! in...

Sep 25th

Interact with your Flickr photographs by visiting Biscuit...

Sep 24th

A belated Color Days post: Yellow Wednesdays. I saved it as...

Sep 24th

(via)

Sep 24th

Want: Portable Grill

Grills that you strap and carry around like this one. There’s something wonderfully tacky but...

Sep 24th

Link Casserole

I’ve found a few neat things recently and I also learned that I really love stop...

Sep 24th

Jon Feinstein has a entire photography series dedicated to...

Sep 24th

I’m craving Cape Cod chips and spicy ketchup. This is...

Sep 24th

Wednesday, 9:14pm. Murray Hill, New York City. The sandwich...

Sep 24th

Annie's September Turnovers

Pears and apples are still in season…I’ve decided to take charge of breakfast....

Sep 24th

I need new running music. You can only listen to The Kills,...

Sep 23rd

Tuesday, 8:09pm. Union Square, New York City. Lights at...

Sep 23rd

Re-Nest writes about ways to re-use that banana...

Sep 22nd

Do Not Want: Imitation Foie Gras

What. the. hell. Good Ol’ 1905 and their era of creative cookery. It consists of: 1/2 pound...

Sep 22nd

Want: Poutine

Poutine. Like right now. The fattier, the greasier, the better.

Sep 22nd

“The best way to waste your life […] is by taking...”
— Chuck Palahniuk

Sep 22nd

Vancouver art director Xavier Encinas has a wonderful...

Sep 22nd

There are a few food things I miss about my home state: the...

Sep 22nd

Almond Cookie Sandwiches with Raspberry...

It’s still raspberry season in New York, so take advantage of the jams and preserves at the...

Sep 22nd

Link Casserole

Stuff from around the web! Artwiculate: a Twitter word of the day competition (via swissmiss) ...

Sep 21st

Two years ago, Christopher Brosius held a...

Sep 21st

Relationships: Be Lazy, Depend on Fate

…or something like it. I’m not a big believer of fate but I do believe in the...

Sep 21st

Sunday, 4:35pm. Flatiron, New York City.

Sep 20th

Sunday, 1:30pm. West Village, New York City. Girls’...

Sep 20th

Sunday 1:20pm. West Village, New York City. Cookies at Milk...

Sep 20th

“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.”
— Confucius

Sep 20th

Link: Don't Judge My Hair

Sep 20th

Well, are you?! (poster via)

Sep 19th

Relationships: Dating the Restaurant...

(Part I, Part II) Wanna know why I’ve been cranky this entire week? Maybe you don’t....

Sep 18th

This Spring/Summer 2010 Thom Browne outfit looks like Dumb...

Sep 18th

Today is fuschia friday. I’m so addicted to the...

Sep 18th

Link Casserole

A few really neat (and cute) things to look at on the web: Dan Tobin Smith’s typography:...

Sep 18th

Another version of the map dress: the subway system! I hope...

Sep 18th

I want to bake these Lemon Chamomile Pots de Creme pretty...

Sep 18th

These great photos were taken at a garden in Stockholm, by a...

Sep 17th

Sofie Anderson.

Sep 17th

Meringue inspired rings (!) by Tanja Hartmann, and...

Sep 17th

Link Casserole

I want everything on this list. EVERYTHING! I need this apple peeler from Williams-Sonoma. If I...

Sep 17th

Last night. Tourist-ing it at Little Italy’s San...

Sep 17th

Annie's Word of the Day: Gemütlichkeit

Gemütlichkeit is a German abstract noun that has been adopted into English. Its closest equivalent...

Sep 17th

Do Not Want: Nutella [Ok, I Do Want It]

Because I want a jar of it badly. I know I can’t just get one jar because I’ll...

Sep 16th

Max Wanger. [I would totally pick him to be my wedding...

Sep 16th

Blanca Gómez. [Thanks Richard!]

Sep 16th

Relationships: Dating the Restaurant...

(See Part I) I saw an article via Associate Content, and there was one really disturbing thing I...

Sep 15th

“Quit My Thoughts” There really are some things...

Sep 15th

Do Not Want: Bacon in a Can

(via Royal Bacon Society) I guess this is real. Still. Ew!

Sep 15th

Link Casserole

I read a lot of typography related items lately, with the exception of a stop motion video about...

Sep 15th

Three to six times a day, I have this particular hunger...

Sep 15th

Taggers

Thanks to awesome coding skills of Heather Rivers, I have added tag clouds (like Flickr) on my site....

Sep 15th

It’s Teal Tuesday! This whole post is completely...

Sep 15th

Tuesday, 12:45a.m. New York City, New York. Eating Pomme...

Sep 15th

Inspired by my friend Stephanie’s trip to Spain a few...

Sep 14th

(Photo: Times Square tilt shift on Flickr) Thanks to the...

Sep 14th

“What everyone is talking about […] is the Republican...”
— from NPR’s 9/12/09...

Sep 14th

This Ukrainian Life

[from This American Life episode #388, "Rest Stop" ]
Ira Glass: You didn't have beer pong back in Ukraine?
Ukrainian Student: No, I never knew.
Ira Glass: Will you be taking that back to show your friends back home?
Ukrainian Student: We even want to buy a beer pong table.

Sep 13th

“Opening this weekend on Governors Island in New York...

Sep 13th

Sep 13th

I was able to smell and taste the first white truffles of...

Sep 11th

Colleen's Word of the Day: Bizarelly

It’s been awhile since I’ve had one of these. I’m been so busy that I...

Sep 10th

These TV dinner cupcakes are filed automatically in...

Sep 10th

“The answer is of course, that it would be best to be both...”
— Niccolò Machiavelli, from The...

Sep 10th

“I was really drunk, and lonely.”
— a friend about his recent bad...

Sep 10th

It may not mean much, but yesterday, I smelled the first...

Sep 10th

This is how you know that your plane is...

Man #1: (stops in the middle of cell phone conversation) You bumped into me. You could at least apologize...
Man #2: I did!
[argues with Man #1]
Man #2: Have a drink, okay?!
Man #1: (continues cell phone conversation) Some bald headed midget was arguing with me...

Sep 9th

I had so much fun in Tucson…and I had a lot of great...

Sep 9th

Tuesday, 8:15p.m. Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sep 9th

Sunday, 5:30p.m. Tucson, Arizona. I wonder who’s...

Sep 6th

Saturday, 10:00p.m. In Tucson with the boys.

Sep 6th

(photo by Peter Marlow) Happy Labor Day Weekend! I’m...

Sep 5th

“The bad news is that time flies. The good news…is that...”
— from Cashback (2006), one of...

Sep 5th

Consequences of Sound

Prolonged or regular exposure to sound 85 dB or higher will cause hearing loss for many people...

Sep 5th

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye...”
— from Annie (1983).

Sep 5th

Saturday, 1:30am. Lower East Side, New York City. At the...

Sep 4th

Thursday, 6:30pm. Lower East Side, New York City. Thursdays...

Sep 4th

I want this origami tea bag by Nathalia Ponomareva. (via...

Sep 3rd

I’m trying to buy Sufjan Stevens tickets....

Sep 3rd

I think a community bookcase would be a great idea for a...

Sep 3rd

Link Casserole

Last night when we were walking home from Congee Village (*cough* after stopping at Sorella, DBGB,...

Sep 3rd

Link: Does Burnt Toast Cause Cancer?

Sep 3rd

Do you have a weird, nerdy collection? I have restaurant...

Sep 2nd

Want: [Need] Black Flats

I am about to go through my fourth pair of black ballet flats in two years. I’ve scuffed and...

Sep 2nd

Do Not Want: Meat Tenderizer Ring

Ken Goldman’s Meat Tenderizer Ring. I’ll probably end up buying it as a gag gift for his...

Sep 2nd

“Dutch artist Helmut Smits built a scale replica of...

Sep 2nd

Comfort Chip Cookies

My little sister is starting her first year of college and she’s moving into her dorm room...

Sep 2nd

Want: Minnesota State Fair Food

I want this because I miss it since there’s such a strong nostalgic association. The fair is...

Sep 1st