by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Oct 12, 2008
Aside from both of us suffering from fantastic sinus headaches this weekend, Marc & I managed to check out the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History. Some info: After several million years of human evolution, only one hominid species...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Feb 5, 2008
A couple of Saturdays ago, Marc took me out for my birthday dinner at One If by Land, Two If by Sea in the West Village. We opted for the tasting menu (at $95/person), which was incredible and included decent-sized portions of items offered off the main menu. Our...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Jan 16, 2008
Last month, six of us met for lunch at The Upper Crust, a not-too-cutesy, British-European-American tea house in Morris County, New Jersey, located right off Rt. 287 in Boonton.The Upper Crust is the lifetime dream of owners and chefs Susan and Andrew Chappell, who...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Dec 5, 2007
I organize an in-house book club at my company and it’s pretty neat, if I do say so myself. In a little over a year-and-a-half, we’ve gone from a four-person quiet discussion to a 20-person roundtable which, at our last two meetings, included authors...
by Dina R. D'Alessandro, RDN | Nov 8, 2007
Ain’t nothing better after spending entirely too many unpaid hours on a Sunday at work than ordering the Coco Shrimp Plato at Boca Chica, located at 1st Ave & 1st St (aka “the nexus of the universe”). A yummy bonus is the plate of free plaintain...
