- The Food Section Agenda: 10/15 to 10/21
- Teany Tea Special: Introducing afternoon tea at Teany. Tea for two is $25 and includes two pots of tea, four tea sandwiches, and two sets of sweets. Perfect.
- Tracy Stern's Tea Salon now open at City Club Hotel
- Guide to Tea Rooms and Tea Shops - NYC
- Chinese Restaurant Project: Indigo Som makes a project of collecting take-out menus from every Chinese restaurant in the United States. Only taking into consideration the turn-over rate of Chinese restaurants in NYC, this sounds like a never-ending project.
- Fruit that Floats: ". . . Here, then, revealed for the first time in the annals of gastronomical science, are the results of my research. Floaters: apple, banana, lemon, onion, orange, parsnip, Bartlett pear, pomegranate, rutabaga (barely), sweet potato (barely), zucchini. Sinkers: avocado (barely), mango, Bosc pear (barely), potato, cherry tomato."
- Gotham Gal visits Kalustyan's: "It is an oasis of specialty foods from the middle east to asia. The herbs are packaged in small to large plastic zip locks. There are a variety of olive oils from Italy, Spain, and Israel. The dried fruit is abundant. Every rice imaginable. Also, incredible nuts."
- First Chinese dim sum in space: "Lt. Col. Yang Liwei, China's first human being in space, spent some of his time in orbit miles above the Earth on Wednesday eating from his choice of 20 Chinese dishes - including one-bite nuggets of spicy shredded pork, diced chicken and fried rice cooked with "nuts, dates and other delicacies."
"The astronaut will enjoy himself over a rich variety of Chinese food," the government's Xinhua News Agency reported after Yang was safely launched. The agency's rather emphatic headline: "Chinese food for Chinese astronauts."