Etcetera | justifiable deliquency

I know I've been quite the delinquent blogger--you can blame it mostly on the demands from the bean counting world (those beans don't just count themselves, you know) as well as the long process behind finishing the blog post surrounding my visit to Alinea--it was such a memorable meal (without sounding like I'm overly rhapsodizing, it was probably the single best meal I've ever had in my life) that I want to be able to re-tell it in exactly the same light that I experienced it. I'm nearly halfway there, so hopefully I'll be finished by tonight or this weekend, so bear with me. I promise the photographic documentation as well as the notes I had taken with each course will surely make up for my absence from the blogosphere.

In the mean time, here are some things that are on the menu (both blogworthy experiences and upcoming meals) that I look forward to sharing with you:

The Blogworthy (as you can see, Marcus is still right--I'm eating more than I can write)

• The Martha Stewart Show (discussion about MoMA's new Counterspace exhibit about the modern kitchen with exhibit curator Juliet Kinchin; making jam with Blue Chair Fruit's founder Rachel Saunders)
• Live at the NYPL (New York Public Library): "Eating Culture" featuring Ruth Reichl in conversation with René Redzepi of Noma and David Chang of the Momofuku empire.
• Noma cookbook signing with René Redzepi at Williams-Sonoma at Columbus Circle
• MoMA's Counterspace exhibit visit
• Michael White's Alto
• revisit to Michael White's Marea
• 'inoteca
• Grub Street's Food Festival
• Daniel Humm's "new" Eleven Madison Park
• Dan Barber's Blue Hill at Stone Barns
• book launch party at Chelsea Market for Amanda Hesser's Essential New York Times Cookbook and Melissa Clark's In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite
53rd and 6th Halal Cart [Marcus]
• Luke's Lobster [Marcus]
• McDonald's and the return of the McRib [Marcus]

The Upcoming Fanfare

• a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge over to Grimaldi's Pizzeria
• Top Chef's Harold Dieterle and his new restaurant Kin Shop
• strong>Butter Lane's cupcake making class
• Barneys' "A Foodie Holiday" window display
• Insieme
• Thanksgiving!
• Soba Nippon

That's it for now. I'll be back with a bang, I promise! :D