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Autumn in New York
OCTOBER
I began the day with a Pilates class, walked over to Fifth Avenue and 41st St. to the
Cafe Zaiya for a Mochi doughnut. Then I caught the finale of the Spanish Columbus Day Parade up Fifth Avenue.
To Washington Square - one of the few timeless city spaces..just like the 60's except for more tourists in general and foreign tourists in particular and more electronic music. I walked past my old apartment on West Broadway - now the restaurant Dos Caminos. I have still not dropped in for a memory drink.
Walked past the old studio on Spring Street now in its umpteenth reincarnation as 'The Body Shop.' Over to Lafayette and Grand
to find that the flea market is now a half finished luxurious co-op building. Over to Mott Street and its trendy boutiques
Fortified by a bowl of tortilla soup, I walk up Third Avenue and past the 'Bowery Hotel' with uniformed door men. To Ninth Street- the hub for young Japanese visitors and on to shop at the Sunshine Market for miso, sea weed, nagaimo and ginger. I enjoy a tapioca green tea concoction at Zaiya Cooper. A Third Avenue bus ride to 43rd Street becomes a mini theatrical event with a variety of New Yorkers actually speaking to one another. On my way back to Sheffield I stop off at Zabar's, the food emporium which is the heart and soul of the West Side and which tourists relish with rapture and amazement. My shopping cart is filled in Eli's Pecan and Cherry bread, Comte cheese, Nova Salmon and Pickled Herring, and Zabar's Olive Oil. 
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I loved your personalized tours of the city, in a car or from a blog. But here, you've created food poetry!
10/20/2007
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