I Dream Awake

I finally went to Trader Joe’s today. Hadn’t been since it opened a few months ago. Huge mistake. The place isn’t as large as I’d like but it’s food heaven at amazing prices. Addicted to carrot juice? 4 bucks and change! That’s a 3rd less than anywhere else in the city. Want some goat cheese on that slice of pizza? Half the price of Fairway… And they had been the lowest price I’d found so far. Want to fill your freezer with potstickers but don’t want to spend all the time and mess it takes to follow Alton Brown’s recipe? TJ has ‘em for the same price as the bulk dumpling shop I go to in Chinatown but at much better quality. I picked up a bag of shrimp and a bag of pork, but for my Kosher keeping friends out there they have vegetable too…

Well at least now I know what my next target with a camera is. I’ll go back and post the proof here of the too good to be true selection and prices.

Was just at the Shake Shack earlier tonight, in a rush from picking someone up at Newark Airport, and those s.o.b’s didn’t give me my burger! We ordered two Shacks and two Double Shacks (for 4 of us total) and they only put 3 burgers in the bag. Of course since we were already running late and jumped right in a cab heading up to Grand Central (total ride time: less than 2 mins!!!) no one checked in the bag to see if they were all there. Ooops!

Oh well.. we shared the ones we had and it was all it’s usual goodness anyway.

Ah, but this might explain why one of the burgers went missing:

As you can plainly see, the Shack doesn’t exist. Crafty food service employees, aren’t they?

Since I’ve been a visual food addict all of my life, this is something I’m going to be doing a lot of. Every single mouthwateringly delicious bit of food photography I come across will find it’s way here, and fast.

To start it off, I found this in the Eater Food Pool (which I should probably join, along with Curbed, Gothamist and New York City Photobloggers):

I’ve passed by Dinosaur BBQ on my way to Fairway Uptown more times than I remember. If this shot of the food there is at all an indicative sample, it might start to be me passing by Fairway Uptown on the way to Dinosaur from now on.

I love 101 Cookbooks. This entry about how to create your own cookbook using sites like Flickr and del.icio.us is just the most recent example of why. After I’ve uncluttered all of my bookmarks and caught up with my Flickr uploads I might just give this a try.