In addition to eating donuts, Josh and I spent some time checking out some markets in NYC. We first visited Whole Foods the Bowery Store. We had 
read about it, mostly Josh read about it on Beer Advocate. It was rated very high for it’s range of beers. This Whole Foods has what they call a “beer room” with close to 1,000 different beers. I was picturing a cellar with low lighting but it was a nice, bright room at street level with a very extensive beer selection. They also had about six beers on tap. It’s really amazing how many beers there are out there – we saw many of the beers we tried in Italy including Baladin. I was pretty impressed with their chocolate selection but I’m sure no one is really surprised about that!
One of the other markets we went to was the Essex Street Market. This Market was right around the corner from our hotel.
I had read about it online before heading to NYC. However, at Doughnut Plant on Saturday morning, I picked up the latest version of Edible Manhatten and saw an article about Roni-Sue’s Chocolates. The article was about Pig Candy – dark and milk chocolate covered crispy bacon. I’ve had bacon chocolate bars before but this was a little different – super-crispy bacon dipped in chocolate – you have to taste it, you really do! We also tried a beer and pretzel caramel chocolate there – porter and stout had been added to the caramel which was then covered in milk chocolate. And on the top was a small piece of pretzel – perfect combination of flavors! Click here to read the Edible Manhatten article and see pictures. The Essex Street Market was great to visit – in addition to getting chocolate covered bacon, you can get all kinds of cheeses, fish, meat, fruits, vegetables – the list goes on. It’s not the biggest market but those small stalls/stores hold a whole lot of stuff! One product that I had not see before was champagne soda.
Just so you know, we didn’t eat and drink the WHOLE time. We checked out the Urs Fischer exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. 
Three floors of the gallery space was his work. He works in a number of different medias and it was interesting to see. If you go to the second page of the Urs Fischer brochure from the exhibit – you will see his piece Cumpadre, 2009 which is hanging at about eye level, danging on fishing wire from a ceiling about 30 feet up. Cumpadre 2009 is the real name for it – Josh called it “Fishing for Ingrid”.
More to come on the NYC trip from Josh.
~Ingrid
