I don’t like the way they pop when you bite into them, and then seeds. (lt’ll make me go broke if I eat it too often.) Add some spicy broccoli, hold the cherry tomatoes. Mid-afternoon, I ordered my go-to custom kale Caesar salad from Sweetgreen. I had an afternoon meeting, but it got rescheduled so I ended up spending the day in front of my computer doing research for something else I’m working on. I don’t know if it’s part of the sugar rush of my day or what. I think there’s a trend of sweet coffee, and I like their chai latte. I used to hate Starbucks I was always a Dunkin’ girl. So I grabbed a Starbucks chai latte, extra hot, then popped up to the building cafeteria for an egg wrap during Today show cut-ins. The commute was really bad that morning, and being that I had to memorize and ad-lib 25 live traffic hits during the show, I was drained afterward. Had some Bustelo with hazelnut Coffee-Mate and then off to the studio. Best invention ever for someone like me to at least attempt some kind of balance after working a 15-hour day.Ģ a.m., alarm goes off. The gym was not happening, so I lay in my HigherDOSE infrared sauna blanket for an hour to sweat and get my heart rate up. I got home around 5:15 p.m., and even though the sun was still up, I was ready to face-plant into my bed. I headed home after a long day with a happy belly and feeling very spoiled after getting to dine in the company of such talented and decorated chefs. Pecan-praline mille-feuille with huckleberry sorbet. I am always up for tasting new cocktails, especially ones with tequila, so I was excited about the Mi Tierra, which had tequila, mezcal, green Chartreuse, and lime. The chef, Alain Verzeroli, chose a sampling of about five dishes for me to try, plus two cocktails. Our next stop was at Le Jardinier in midtown. We’re always on such a tight schedule, and while I would have liked to eat more, it was a quick taste of each and on to the next location. It’s a fresh bowl of seafood heaven with Maine lobster, shrimp, littleneck clams, mussels, cuttlefish, and scallops in a tomato-saffron broth. He prepared a caviar dish with tater tots from the snacks menu, along with a Greenmarket salad, two pasta dishes, and, for the main event, the Cacciucco. I sat down with Jonathan Benno, the chef, to chat about the restaurant and taste some of his signature dishes. First stop was Benno at the Evelyn Hotel in Nomad. My shoot for the day was at some of the new restaurants in the city that were just given their first Michelin stars. Breakfast ended up being a slice of an L&B Spumoni Gardens pizza from a pie I had picked up the day before on another shoot. Goodbar I had scored a few days earlier in the judges’ suite at Beat Bobby Flay.Īround 9 a.m., I ran home to change for my New York Live shoot. I was still full from an eating extravaganza the day before, but it was Halloween, after all, so I cracked open a mini Mr. It’s not very good, but it’s definitely better than nothing. I drank another three-fourths of a cup of coffee from the coffee machine at the office. I drank about half while blow-drying my hair, got dressed, and arrived at the studio a little after 3 a.m.ĭuring the live show - 4 a.m. She was the Coffee-Mate person, and I will tell you my chef friends make fun of me that I have it. I think this started with my roommate in my early 20s. special” - a cup of Café Bustelo with hazelnut Coffee-Mate. I always head straight to the kitchen to make myself the “2 a.m. My alarm clock punched me in the face at 2 a.m., like it has almost every single weekday for the past nine years. Read it all in this week’s Grub Street Diet. This week, she stopped by Benno, popped into Ribalta, and snacked on a slice from L&B Spumoni Gardens, all before heading home to Long Island to finally learn how to make her family’s meatballs. Her mornings may mean Café Bustelo at home, but her afternoons are often spent eating some of the best food in the city. “There are no fancy coffee spots open in the middle of the night when my ‘day’ begins,” she says. The New York Live correspondent and Today in New York traffic reporter knows because she starts her days for WNBC at 2 a.m. Lauren Scala can tell you New York is, in fact, a city that sleeps.
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