The Block

We moved two months ago to Broadway and 108th Street to a block bordered on the north by 109th and on the east by Amsterdam, few blocks south of Columbia University in New York. We like to cook. But we also like to eat out and bring in. To move to a new neighborhood in New York is like dropping a skier on a new slope -- you want to explore trails and and open expanses -- or in our case, the nooks and crannies and tastes and textures of new food. Within a 3-4 block walk from our new home are scores of restaurants -- some inexpensive holes in the walls, some Zagat recommended and decorator designed. We enter each hoping for gustatory delight.