by Tina
on November 12, 2012
Announcing a new product, specially designed to raise funds for Hurricane Sandy relief.
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MB Chocolates to the Rescue – a reusable bag filled with over $50 of imported chocolates and will be sold for $25. The jute fabric bag includes fine chocolates from Leonidas, Grown Up Chocolates, Prestat, Summerdown Mints, Valrhona, Dolfin and more. Chocolates from Belgium, England, and France all helping out NYC!
All proceeds from the sale of this item (100% of the purchase price) will be donated to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC, a non-profit created to support Hurricane Sandy Relief, recovering and rebuilding the hardest hit areas of NYC.
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by Elizabeth
on November 8, 2012
Most people recognize David Chang as the chef and founder of the Momofuku Restaurant Group, the man behind steamed pork buns, and a heavily accoladed talent (everyone from the James Beard Foundation to Food & Wine to Crain’s have declared his restaurants with no reservations policies worth queuing up for), but in 2011, Chang added magazine co-founder to his resume with the publication of Lucky Peach.
It is no coincidence that Chang called his magazine Lucky Peach, according to the Momofuku Restaurant Group, Momofuku translates as “lucky peach,” and the brand’s most recognizable image is a singe peach (see image at the close of this blog post).
A magazine for food and culture mavens, like any Chang endeavor,
Lucky Peach is boundary-expanding, quirky, and not for the faint-of-heart (Issue 3 and 4 covers of the cow eating a hotdog comes to mind and a tatooed pig come to mind). But, reading the magazine cover to cover is absolutely transporting. For the upcoming issue, arriving at CMB on November 16th
(Lucky Peach, $12), which is all about Chinatown, the contributions range from Chinatown’s perceived place in culinary and cultural history, recipes from Danny Bowien, of Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco and New York, and a centerfold spread of Lo Mein from around the world.
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by David
on October 30, 2012
I did bicycle to work and back today from the upper west side. There is traffic on the streets of Manhattan with quite a few emergency vehicles. I did take the bicycle path down the side of Hudson river and there was some debris about but tourists were out and many people were biking and walking. South of 30th Street the city changes a bit, with no traffic lights and less taxis about that are available.
At our store and office, based on a flashlight inspection, everything looks fine, upstairs and downstairs. Some water did get into the 10th ave side of the building but did not make it up the ramp in the basement, to the best that I know. Basically the Hudson River came up to Chelsea Market’s doorstep but hardly entered the building. The Eastern and Southern sides of Manhattan were not so lucky.
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