family

a bit of mia for your monday

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my little sister
is the only almost four year-old i know...
...that can tell the difference between 
gustavo dudamel
and 
jimmy levine
{except for when she confuses dudamel for vadim karpinos}
...that can pick her nose and still look outrageously cute
...that will consume weird things like green dumplings and kombucha

...and that already shows signs of a future career at the metropolitan opera.


boys, come and get her.

kidding. i'll kill you.


xoxo


yeh


p.s. she might also be a future daisychaindream

things chicago has that new york has not {love to both though}

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ok, new york's got:

out-of-this-world food stands
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...but may chicago please have a few seconds of fame??


1. dim sum
i've been totally spoiled rotten with chicago dim sum all my life
{particularly furama}
that new york's just doesn't cut it, flavor wise or variety wise.

2. sisters
stoop in the center, mia on the right.
boy are they silly.

"you can pick your nose, 
and you can pick your friends,
but you can't pick your sisters."
-mia, as she picks her nose.




3. hot dogs
NUH UH said the big fat juicy chicago dog,
complete with a bazillion toppings.
and it's kosher.
and superdawg is one of america's last drive-ins. 

4. pizza
part of my soul dies every time i walk past 
on central park west.
there's really no place to get good chicago pizza other than chicago.
{unless you're like mum and you order twelve lou malnati's pizzas to be overnighted on dry ice to tampa}

5. extremely tall people of the male kind
roomie thinks it's the midwestern diet.
i think it's the dim sum.
but it's true, 
i tower over a majority of my guy friends in the east.
but in chicago?
i'm a munchkin.

6. a mediumly casual schnitzel
in new york, it's either, drup a hundo on a nice meal at wallsé,
or fear for your life eating on the street in front of schnitzel truck.
no in between.
chicago's got it,
at kuhn's. 


...and one thing i'm glad that new york doesn't have...

extremely mysterious restaurant names
mado? green zebra? the publican?
i'm confused.
they don't give us anything to work with, like,
"bar and burger," "noodle bar," or even "bakery" tacked on the end.



either way,
chicago, you will forever be my home.
and
new york, you will forever be the city that i live in right now.
and i love you both.
but i am sad to leave home today :-(


xoxo


yeh





happy pizza night from grimaldi's!

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i know, i know,
it's a sin that i've lived in new york this long and haven't been to 
grimaldi's
so sue me. 


i actually just happened upon it when the pops and i attended a concert down the street from grimaldi's at bargemusic
{it's a chamber music venue and it's a boat. isn't that super silly?}

hello, pops!

so after a lovely evening of brahms and mozart,
we piggied out on pizza,
that is definitely up there with kesté and di fara.
i'm a total fan of the slightly burnt bottom.
i think i should have ordered extra basil though.
next time :-)


have a lovely weekend, pretty people!
pops is here all weekend! yay yipee! 


xoxo


yeh



grimaldi's is located in brooklyn, just below the brooklyn bridge.