"After lunch I head out for my jab and walk ten blocks north to a CVS on Third Avenue. I’m depressed to see the number of food establishments that have gone out of business in the past year, but the two I care about most are still going: Omar’s on East 55th Street..."

"... and Land of Plenty on East 58th Street. I can’t wait to get back."

"In the Before Times, my colleague Jim Aley would often go to Katagiri, the Japanese grocery store a few blocks from the office, and return with bags and bags of fruit gummies. He used to launch them across the desks at whoever wanted any. I miss that."

"Fridays are pizza nights, always. When we lived in Brooklyn we had a tradition: an extra large cheese pie from Sal’s on Court Street."

"You may not know this about me, but I’m a classically trained pizza scholar. I went to pizza school, a.k.a. Pizza a Casa on the Lower East Side. Theirs is a quick dough; I use Saf Instant Yeast and let it rise for an hour if I can stand it."