First gift of the season

Last night Simone stopped by and gave me a beautiful cashmere scarf. It's so soft. It's grey. It matches the hat that Shiao-Lan knitted for me two years ago. She also brought cupcakes from Buttercup Bake Shop; I overindulged.

For dinner we went to Ivo and Lulu's. Still one of my favorite resturants in the city. The best thing to do is go with four people and order the menu. Sebastian, the cook and part-owner, told me he had recently bought a jeep. He's planning on a cross-country drive and then down into Latin America. It sounds amazing. Sounds like it might become Jeep Diaries.

When it came time for dessert I asked if he had the chocolate cake. I had heard of his cake but never tried it; he had stopped making it for a while. He told me that he couldn't find the organic chocolate he liked to use. But that lately he had come into a lot of it and that he had been baking the cake all last week. Last night he didn't have it. But, he said, if I come back for dessert today, it'd be on the house. Posted by eku at December 15, 2004 10:18 AM