I'm Rebecca Lando.
I'm an award-winning writer, producer, and editor and upcoming cookbook author based in New York City.
In 2009 I launched Working Class Foodies, a cooking show that creates affordable meals from local, seasonal, and/or sustainable ingredients. Working Class Foodies is a part of YouTube Next Chef and airs on NBC New York's Nonstop Foodies.
I wrote, produced, and edited FilmFan, an award-winning weekly movie review show, for MSN from 2010-2011.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Someone (aka me) has their grumpy face on tonight.
In the end, New Yorkers were more traumatized by having to stay indoors and cook for themselves for a whole day than the threat of a hurricane.
Fort Greene is a mess of bored, hungover brunch-seekers.
novh: Sweatersworth.: Fragments | Absolutely Impossible Possibility
For the record, “Sweatersworth.: Fragments” is an asshole for not giving this amazing painting its proper credit on his/her blog.
Stuyvesant Street from Third Ave. crossing E. 9th and E. 10th Streets toward Second Avenue, 1856. St. Marks Church (built 1799) still stands, so do several houses on the left side of Stuyvesant St, which now dead-ends into Second and a triangular park in front of the church. The other church (east side of Second Ave.) is now Urban Outfitters. In the lower right you can see where St. Marks Books is located (the two story corner house with a grocery sign); around the corner to the right is the sliver of a block where Panya bakery and the upstairs bar Angel’s Share are now. (via EV Transitions)
This was originally the driveway up to the Stuyvesant family mansion near 16th and 1st and it was oriented (not sure how precisely) along true east-west instead of the later Manhattan grid.
NYC History? Auto reblog.
new desktop. photo by james nord.
If you’re in New York, come by Jimmy’s No. 43 on Sunday for the Pig Week Kickoff! We’ll be filming the event, and I’ll even be helping out in the kitchen, cooking up delicious, locally-raised pork for you to eat. So come say hi, and maybe get yourself in an episode of Working Class Foodies!
ABC Kitchen, a market-driven restaurant where everything from the bathroom soaps to the cleaning products will be organic. Even the wine and spirits will be organic or artisanal.
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The décor, conceived by local Brooklyn furniture designer Eric Slayton, will be a modern take on farm-to-table with rustic furnishings and sustainable building materials like steel and concrete. “There was a tremendous amount of research that went into every detail because of our focus on a sustainable philosophy,” Slayton explains.
01/12/10 - Goose Island Night @ Rattle'n'Hum
One of the things I fell in love with most in Chicago was Goose Island Brewery.
Come drink some fantastic Chicago beer with me at Rattle’n’Hum tomorrow night from 6:30 on.
Clinton/Washington G train stop, subway graffiti on one of those awful “college football = sexy ladies and sex with sexy ladies” posters.
john:
The Ear Inn — one of the happiest places in NYC.
nevver: Spring Street, Greenwich Village Daily Photo
Sing it, Whit. Long-standing relationship with the essential Ear Inn.
As does Nwk.
Best place for a plate of dumplings, a pint of Guinness, and a paper tablecloth you can draw on with crayons.
I grew up on this street (via hellonewyork and onesevenone)
I currently live just off this street. Which as actually an avenue, duh, David.
The city didn’t go for Sean Combs’ offer to donate $1 to local charities if they refashioned the New Year’s Eve ball to resemble “the blue stone of Ciroc,” a vodka he promotes. So now he’s offering free cab rides to New Year’s Eve drunks. He will work with the Taxi and Limousine Commission to have teams distribute debit cards, good for one taxi fare up to $15, in Times Square that night between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. Diddy-centric advertisements for the plan are appearing now on taxi backseat TVs. The cards are available only to “adult consumers,” so shitfaced 15-year-olds won’t get a free ride from Diddy. Bibulous grown-ups are encouraged by Combs to celebrate with Ciroc, the “Official Vodka of New Year’s Eve.
Diddy Pays for Your New Year’s Cab Ride to the Next Bar - New York News - Runnin’ Scared (via kmaverick) (via mdfsmash)
Okay, but,
- I studiously avoid going within a 5-block radius of Times Square on NYE;
- Can you even catch a cab in Times Square on NYE? Isn’t it totally blocked off? So you have to walk out of the neighborhood first anyway. Not really a big deal, but not that practical, I guess.
- But then, neither is being in Times Square on NYE.
If I have to eat another piece of fried chicken, I might go insane,” said my dining companion as she sipped a cup of soothing digestive tea. I told her she better get used to it; southern-fried cooking, in its greasy, queasy glory, is all the rage. To experience the madness firsthand, grab a table at the unassuming, even poky little East Village gastropub The Redhead, where former New Orleans chef Meg Grace has concocted a recession-friendly menu filled with all sorts of artery-clogging, pseudo-southern treats. These include salty, compulsively edible chunks of bacon-laced peanut brittle and puffy housemade pretzels (dunked in deliciously viscous “Kentucky Beer Cheese”) to go with your bottle of beer at the bar, and mountains of properly sloppy Low Country shrimp and grits. The main attraction, though, is the Redhead’s fried chicken, which Grace brines in salt and brown sugar; coats in buttermilk; tosses in flour and cayenne; and deep fries to golden-brown perfection.
Adam Platt. NYMag.
Fuck yeah Meg!
(via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
Yay! I am always freaking hungry for The Redhead’s fried chicken.
My New York, I guess.
That is, until we move to Fort Greene next month.
