This seems to be a thing lately: my path to a good Tunisian meal in NYC has been filled with a few screw-ups, mostly of my own making. Tunisian food fail #1: I had heard great things about Bistro Lamazou, a restaurant owned by the Tunisians who brought us the always-excellent Lamazou Cheese Shop. […]

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  Just over a year ago, I looked at a map of Africa and thought: I’m screwed. At the time, I’d already visited—or at least eyeballed—nearly every African restaurant in NYC. But there are roughly 50 countries in Africa, and I had only been able to find food from about a dozen of them within […]

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  Here’s why I love New York:  I was walking down a street in Astoria, feeling potbellied after visiting a Chilean bakery and a Jordanian bakery, when I noticed a cute little place called Harissa Café.  I took a peek at the menu, thinking I’d found a Moroccan restaurant, and noticed that several of the […]

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  I’ve always worried that my food quest would fall flat on its (pudgy) face because of Africa. I love good African food, but the continent is home to a crapload of individual countries—54 or so, depending on whose list you’re looking at—and there’s a relative shortage of African restaurants in NYC. Until now, I’ve […]

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It’s pretty much impossible to live in New York City without occasionally doing battle with mice. If you’re fortunate enough to live in a well-maintained building, “doing battle” means calling the building staff, and getting them poison the living hell out of the mice. Easy. But if you happen to be engaged to an animal-loving […]

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