Drop everything

A year or so ago, when we opened Delancey, I thought our lives were over and we would never see our friends again. Now that I type that out, it sounds like I was channeling Chicken Little, but my thinking wasn’t without reason: in the restaurant business, you work when other people play, and that complicates almost everything. But as it turns out, our friends are more flexible than I had given

Mesut Ozil from Germany

Mesut Ozil born October 15, 1988 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is a German footballer of Turkish descent who currently plays in the club Real Madrid since August 2010. He plays as an attacking midfielder at the club and also the national team. Ozil is an important player in the Germany national team squad. In Madrid ozil is also a central player who dibtuhkan Madrid to tear apart the opponent's defense.

Now here, now there

I have two half brothers who live on the East Coast, and when I was a kid, if they came home for the holidays, they would bring a Styrofoam cooler of oysters. My father would get out his knife and shucking glove and lean against the kitchen counter, flicking grit and shells into the sink as he went, and they would all stand around, eating and sighing, making the noises that people make when they

Because there was a bag of plums

I took this picture on an excellent afternoon.It was a Saturday. I had just met a deadline that I had been dreading. I was immensely relieved. Two of our best friends were in town for a visit, two friends who moved here a couple of years ago and became sort of like family, but then they found jobs and gigs in other cities, so they moved away. But they were in town on this particular day, and