Every once in awhile, you get the opportunity to participate in something so astronomically awesome that you think that the organizers must have invited you by accident. You are not this cool. You have never been this cool. You may never be this cool again. Be careful not to trip or they may notice that you never should have been invited in the first place. And so went my evening at the Citymeals-on-Wheels Silver Spoons benefit honoring 25 years of James Beard award winning chefs.

The lovely folks at Foodbuzz and Nature’s Pride Bread invited me to attend a once-in-a-lifetime event and I couldn’t have been more thrilled. Surrounding what usually is the ice rink at Rockafeller Plaza were individual booths serving up the dishes of nearly 60 name dropping-worthy celebrity chefs. Waxman. Palmer. Puck. Boulud. Georges. English. Nobu. Need I say more?

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People say that New York real estate is measured in square inches instead of square feet.  Apartments that are huge in New York, are tiny by the standards of any other city (except, perhaps, Tokyo).  That being the case, when it came time to break in my new NYC apartment with a small housewarming party, the menu was practically screaming for mini-food.  But what kind of mini-food should I serve?

In the depths of summer, even us urbanites are dying for traditional cookout/BBQ fare.  But what is a girl to do without a backyard?  Without a patio?  Without a charcoal/gas grill?  Bring the cookout inside!  Clearly.  Thus, the menu for my party was born.  Traditional summer cookout food brought indoors for the city dwellers among us.  With the help of a good grill pan, you can bring the taste of traditional cookout food directly into your tiny, backyard-less apartment.  Hooray!

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