Time is running out for Chelsea’s much loved Wild Lily Tea Room. The oh-so-familiar Manhattan tale of lease complications has taken another innocent victim. December 24th will mark the end of sunbeam tea, dumpling samplers, and those delicious scones, all enjoyed in the serene 22nd Street location. A farewell tea tasting will be held Thursday, [...]

Leave it to my Korean assistant to dig up the tastiest K-Town snack with the most versatile uses. Simply called Tofu Snack on the back of the cellophane wrap, certainly the name does not do these crunchy, sesame-flecked crisps justice. Found at Koryodang—a bakery and café on the jam-packed 32nd Street—the tofu chips are a [...]

Cipollini onions have been at the Green Market for a while now, but until I tried them in a rich wine reduction, I didn’t know that they were such delicacies. Try simmering 10-15 of the onions in any Grenache-based vin doux from France. Using a port or a Banyuls will work wonders on the little [...]