TASTE: New York crumb cake in Ozone Park
The door of the midcentury Oxford Bake Shop, in Ozone Park, Queens, opens like few doors do anymore in New York City. It’s wooden,
Seven tastes for the seventh month
In annual City Lore tradition, Sense & the City presents seven brief sensory experiences for the seventh month. Here, seven iconic New York City taste
TASTE: Häagen-Dazs immersive bodega
One Wednesday in April, Häagen-Dazs took over a vacant former bodega on an East Williamsburg side street and turned it into a free immersive pop-up
TASTE: Nesselrode pie, a long-lost New York City Christmas tradition
No one seems sure how the Nesselrode pie landed in New York City, but by all accounts it was on every dessert menu and
TASTE: Rice Pudding
Rice pudding—that humble, homely, nourishing dessert—has been an unsung staple of New York City cuisine for centuries, brought here in many varieties by waves of
TASTE: Biscuit tortoni, a classic New York confection
I admit that I find it hard to resist any food served in a paper cup. Having tasted the Charlotte Russe, a cake-and-cream dessert that
TASTE: Warm arroz con leche on a cold winter night, Sunset Park
If, on a snowy evening, you find yourself in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, stop by the card table set up on outside Taqueria La Mixteca, across
TASTE: Glaser’s Bake Shop’s Black-and-White Cookie
I was skeptical of the black-and-white cookie. There was something obscene about their nearly half-foot diameter, the chocolate and vanilla icing: it was like having
TASTE: Coffee-cart breakfast
Why, I had always wondered, would New Yorkers choose to buy their morning coffee and bagel from a sidewalk cart? The streets of every borough
