10/28/05 Friday After-Party for the After-Party Squared. Four of us went to Rice to Riches, this onetime chic rice pudding bar in Soho. One person in our group lives around the corner from there, so it was the last stop on our freaking insane night. I love this restaurant because the pudding is so good and the flavors are always different. This looks like the Raspberry Statement and the Stubborn Banana. We tried those last night, and we also tried the Secret Life of Pumpkin. My favorite was the Hazelnut Chocolate Bear Hug, but I couldn't finish it. I believe their flavorist was once the dessert and pastry man at nearby Nobu, that uber-trendy place where plebians can never get reservations. The link above is to their new Midtown locale, where they don't yet take lunch reservations! Rice to Riches is rather expensive, but a nice treat for tourists, some of whom we met and frightened last night!
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10/28/05 Friday After-Party Party. The house white wine went well with the Margherita pizza. There were 8 glasses and 4 people at the table when we left. The waiters were definitely waiting on us. This is at about 11:30 at night.
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10/28/05 Friday After-Party Party. Four of us left the group and went to a pizza place in Little Italy. The pizza was so good I could only nab this picture of the last slice's remains.
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10/28/05 Friday After-Work Party. See? Blurrier and blurrier.
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10/28/05 Friday After-Work Party. Notice how the pictures get blurrier as the night goes on? These French fries (are they still freedom fries) were awesome! Sour cream makes a good topping. The candle set the mood for some crazy conversations! Um...I won't open my mouth about that!
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10/28/05 Friday After-work Drinks. This is a really tasty black cherry beer that they have at an upscale bar/restaurant near my job. The bartender comp'd three of us on these.
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10/28/05 Friday Decorations. They are food, but we did not eat them.
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10/28/05 Friday Mmmmm...cupcakes! These are my favorite things in the world! Little bats and Fall leaves are so cute as sugary decorations. A food critic's perspective- the cake is heavy but not greasy, and the icing is incredibly light but still indulgent. Three stars.
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10/28/05 Friday Sampling. A writer had this outside of their office. Can you believe how everyone is contributing to this sugar-fest! But we can't let it go to waste.
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10/28/05 Friday Taste/Safety Testing. Our intern brought in Chinese gummies for the little children. But I wanted to make sure they weren't poisoned!
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10/28/05 Friday Snack #1. More Candy Corn. I try to eat them in small numbers like this, but I just keep going back for more. I need help.
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10/28/05 Friday Lunch- Snapple does a body good.
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10/28/05 Friday Lunch PB&J. Well, I actually ate ham & swiss with lite mayo, but I forgot to take a picture of that, so when the caterer put out these sandwiches for the trick-or-treaters, I took a pic of that.
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10/28/05 Friday Breakfast. Throughout the course of the day, I will single-handedly deplete my stash of candy for the kiddies. It's Halloween at the office and the trick-or-treating starts at 3:30.
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10/27/05 Thursday Middle. Of the. Fucking. Night. Why am I eating?! My boyfriend has made poppycorn (as we affectionately call it), and I cannot resist the buttery goodness. Even though it's 12:05 a.m. It's almost as alluring as Nutella. Actually, I hate Nutella.
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10/27/05 Thursday Dinner. I think a good smoothie makes a very nutritious and fulfilling dinner. Jamba Juice is my favorite smoothie place because it makes you feel so damn healthy, with all the "free boosts" and whatnot. This is a "Berry Fulfilling" a la Femme Boost. Drinking it on the subway is not super appetizing, though.
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10/27/05 Thursday Lunch. My coworker and I went hunting for Halloween costumes at lunch today, and we stumbled on a Papa John's that serves pizza by the slice! Oh my gosh, I hope that development doesn't entice me every day now! I'm so bad with carbs but, hey. This box was only for 2 slices, I swear! It's just...a really...big box, alright?
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10/27/05 Thursday Breakfast. More tea. This is standard Lipton's, decaffeinated. Honey again. Spoon, check. Behind, you can see my cutouts from Page Six. Solid.

Small note, clicking on the link above will redirect you to The New York Post's Page Six. You must register to read their content. But it is free.
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10/27/05 Thursday Breakfast. Good morning! Butter croissant and grovestand orange juice. I have a Jack Lalaine Power Juicer at home, but it's so much work! I love it, though. One thing it taught me was how powerful the nutrients in pulp are. Notice my stuff has lots of pulp. Shit, I forgot a straw!
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10/26/05 Wednesday Dinner. Oh my gosh, I cannot emphasize enough the amazingness of Chipotle burritos! These things are fucking awesome! Their guacamole is so fresh it turns brown if you leave it out for more than a half hour. The rice is seasoned with cilantro and lime. The stuff is good, and fast, and only about $7! I go to the one at Bryant Park a lot. Tonight, I was right across the street at the Bryant Park Hotel for a screening of the new Usher movie, In the Mix. Please, save your money. It sucks.

Update from CityRag blog: P.S.- supposedly, Chipotle (owned by McDonald's Corp.) is hiding the fact that their veggie burritos each have more fat and calores than a Big Mac!? I don't want to believe it, man! But it would explain why they're so damned addicting. Anyone know more about this? Please write a comment so we can expose this shit, if it's true.
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10/26/05 Wednesday end-of-day. Must take the vitamins. I'm not obsessed with weight, but those ones on the right include green tea extract, which is supposed to boost your metabolism by 10%, thereby burning more calories and carbs. I hate the taste of the stuff, so I try to get it in other ways. Fish body oils, that was part of that fad Jesus diet. They do help move cholesterol through your arteries, though. Am I getting too preachy?
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10/26/05 Wednesday Lunch. Never, EVER drink less than 100% juice. You might as well drink that new "diet vanilla cherry pineapple pina colada Pepsi One"! I mean, artificial flavorings, colorings (FD&C Red #40 definitely causes cancer, don't believe the hype. Just because it's in everything does not mean it's safe,), 1/3 water! Why would you pay to put that in your precious body? Gwyneth Paltrow would smack you if you gave it to your child. (She really said that, by the way!) Notice below, the "no sugar added." Like Paris would say, "that's hot."
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After-chocolate mints are definitely a good thing! Nobody likes that sweet/bitter, warm smell when you're trying to explain a layout! Or, um, if you're all placing bets on how many months TomKat are pregnant. Only us lowlings do that, of course. The top editors are way, way too busy.
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10/25/05 Tuesday Snack. Mmmmm, truffle. Dark chocolate, more than 70% cocoa, is actually good for your health. Yep. So along with that one glass of red wine a day, we can all indulge! This one's from some French company, very high-end! They are fed-exed overnight to the magazine from the outskirts of le Rive-Gauche. Okay, that's a lie! I'm joking! Um, I think an editor picked them up on vacation. Yeah, we'd never do something so wasteful and abusive as use the company's money to import chocolates.
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10/25/05 Tuesday 3 p.m. snack. If you're like me, you start wishing you were in bed right around 3/3:30. No matter how much you love your job, your energy goes down. That's why I keep this stash of candies at my cube. I wanted to include the paperclip for relativity- I emphasize, these are small. Don't blame me when I eat them all at once.
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10/25/05 Tuesday Lunch On 50th street and Sixth Avenue, there's this really cute aluminum trailer in which a very polite, friendly Asian couple (and their teenage daughter occasionally) sell fruit salads, vegetable shakes, ginseng, gingko biloba extract, even tamarinds! Their trailer is decorated with pink cardboard cutouts screaming Fruit Salad! So. Damn. Cute. And really good for cheap, this banana/mango/cantaloupe/honeydew cornucopia concoction was only $3. Much less than my much-loved Jamba Juice. I drink to my health at my cubicle.
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10/25/05 Tuesday Breakfast part deux, tea (need to give the cells that antioxidant protection). I don't recommend Bigelow teas, ever. But their Darjeeling is okay, and the package promises it's "the champagne of black teas." I tried it. I liked it. Honey is better than sugar. Look it up at the Macrobiotica group on Myspace. That shit is lethal!
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10/25/05 Tuesday Breakfast, two Fairytale Sprites brownies. They were sent to my boss by a friend and he gave me a couple. The mint chocolate ones are just so-so.
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