Eating my way through NYC

This is my mom posing very cheesily, reading Mario Batali's latest cookbook, in his restaurant. Grrroan.

For my mom's 60th birthday, we decided to do a good ol' fashioned family trip ---to New York. Going with parents is very different from my last trip there with girlfriends (i.e. far less shopping), we did all the typical tourist-y stuff, including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Staten Island Ferry (with $3 beers!) and a Broadway show.

But I also got to be in charge of where we'd eat.

And we had some amazing food --from cheap and delicious homemade dumplings in Chinatown, to Thanksgiving at one of Daniel Bouland's restaurants, lunch at one of Mario Batali's and possibly the best mac and cheese I ever ate!