Zabar’s

Hello Brunch with Bearees! As the trees turn to gold and the subway platforms get cooler, we look forward to yet another turn of the seasons here in the city. Autumn is when leaves rain on your head like glitter …

Sweets and Sonnets: Lemon Poppyseed Muffins and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 98

Hello Brunch with Bearees, and happy birthday to the great Bard, William Shakespeare! Shakespeare and Bear have a lot in common: both small town artists who became internationally recognized in just a few years, both historically aloof but prolific in …

Sweets and Sonnets: Chocolate Swirl Banana Bread and I’m Nobody! Who are you?

They say, “monkey see, monkey do,” and while that does not really apply to bears, we can agree with monkeys on merit of one thing: bananas. When I was younger, my grandmother used to buy ridiculous amounts of bananas from …

Sweets and Sonnets: Snickerdoodles and r–p–o–p–h–e–s–s–a–g–r

One of the things that I love about poetry is the sheer silliness of it all. Sure, there are tomes of hefty verses, like all twenty-four (far too many) books of the Iliad. Scholars might tell you that poetry is …

Sweets and Sonnets: Cranberry-Orange Scones and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 25

As the famous line goes, “April is the cruellest month” etc. etc. and honestly, T.S. Eliot might have been on to something. April is a confusing time in the city: spring sweeps in and opens all the daffodils in the …