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Putting The Cork In 2007: The Year Of Dining Casually

[Pigging by Wilfrid: December 28, 2007]

Best of New York 2007:  L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon - Craft -Hakata Tonton - Hill Country.  Honorable mentions: The Monday Room - Grayz - Blue Hill - Ssam Bar. 

Forgive me for repeating the obvious, but this has been the year of grazing.  Grazing...

A Pink Pig Pictorial: Feast Of The Suckling Pig

[Pigging by Wilfrid: December 28, 2007]

Why let this go to waste?

For no good reason, these pictures, from a pig-out in May 2007, never made it online.  Enjoy them now.

Little Christmas Cheer: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid: December 28, 2007]

Regular readers will recall that last week I retired ill and disgruntled at the intermission of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, cursing my groaning bronchii and amazed the theater had no bar.

A Re-Tooled Jean-Georges

[Pigging by Wilfrid: December 21, 2007]

I thought we'd bring down the curtain on At The Sign Of The Pink Pig: Year Zero with a suitable flourish.

Not a Per Se flourish, because I don't think I can face that cheese course again ("Aged comte and beetroot, sir...").  Nor a Robuchon flourish, as we've been there, eaten that.

Correct Dining #3: Do-It-Yourself Trotters

[Correct Dining by Wilfrid: December 21, 2007]

Wallowing in pig's feet of all kinds at Hakata Tonton last week reminded me that it's been a good while since I prepared them at home.

It's wise to have a short (or indeed long) list of brasserie standards up your sleeve to trot out at short notice, especially when the nights are long and dark.

Kerouac's "Roll" At The 5th Avenue NYPL, And A Note On Papa Hemingway

[New York Peasant by Wilfrid: December 21, 2007]

The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On The Road goes out with a bang behind Edward Clark Potter's lions on Fifth Avenue.

In the event you ever want to see an exhibit about Kerouac and his works, this is the one to see.

Scroll down for "Farwell Arms, Hello Dinner".

A Christmas Under The Weather: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid: December 21, 2007]

Embarking on the neo-Proustian project of recovering memories of food and other fripperies, week by week from ten years ago, I realised I would eventually run into some existential doldrums.

Happy Feet!: Hakata Tonton

[Pigging by Wilfrid: December 14, 2007]

Oh glory, what succulent stickiness - what an opening!

Maybe the last shiny new gem of 2007: tonsoku paradise in the Village

Quick Bites: Two Bar Rooms And A Grilled Cheese

[Pigging by Wilfrid: December 14, 2007]

"It's just one meatball," he said.  And so it was.

I didn't expect to end up facing a meatball in the Gramercy Tavern "Tavern Room". But I didn't much object, either.

Scroll down for the Bar Room at The Modern and 'wichcraft.

December Haze: Freud And The Civilians At MOMA

[New York Peasant by Wilfrid: December 14, 2007]

In which the sun starts setting at 3pm, and as events jam the social calendar like sardines in a can, I approach the season with the annual fevers, sweats, bronchial fog, aching joints and general crankiness.

But we must dimple our ties and do our duty. 

Scroll down for The Civilians' "Café-Concert".