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...nutrition and happy days, you-all. In all the world there are no desserts more elegant than key lime pie, black bottom pie, pecan pie and fresh Georgia peach ice cream. Or, to wash it down, the pungent coffee of New Orleans or its famed, flamed cognac-laced consort, caf...
...pair of women soon make a man out of Charlie. Ida, the bank manager's daughter, first seduces him. Delphine, the femme fatale waitress at the Rainbow Café, continues Charlie's education...
...neighborhoods almost cloned from the originals: Chinatown, just below Manhattan's Lower East Side, with its more than 200 often excellent coffee shops and restaurants, its shops selling salted fish, smoked duck and preserved eggs. Or Little Italy, next door, where one can sit at a side walk café with a cappuccino and time-warp 50 years back to some Neapolitan atmosphere. Ninth Avenue from 38th to 53rd streets is a rapid collage of Italian, Greek, Philippine and African shops and stalls. Yorkville around 86th Street and Third Avenue is somewhat homogenized now, but abounds with German gourmet...
...balmy summer evening, the plaza at Manhattan's Lincoln Center is as cheery a spot as Venice's Piazza San Marco without the pigeons or quite the grandeur. People gaze, mesmerized, into splashing fountains or relax at a sidewalk café, sipping Campari or sucking fruit ice from paper cups. For a change of meter and mood, conventioneers might duck the cacophony of the Garden in exchange for the mellow sounds at Alice Tully Hall, where July is Mostly Mozart time. Unfortunately, with Spain's dazzling pianist Alicia de Laroccha currently in residence, it is also mostly...
...view is one of the most spectacular in the world. Reservations are normally required two weeks in advance, but visitors should go anyhow and sit in the Hors d'Oeuvrerie, where they can have sushi, steak tartare and other nibbles. Other restaurants combining fine food and wonderful decor: Café des Artistes (67th St. just off Central Park West) and Maxwell's Plum (64th St. and First Ave.), somewhat fantastically decorated with stained glass and Tiffany lamps, among other things...