We’re back in town after a busy summer’s end. We closed the play in Stockbridge on Saturday night, hightailed it to The Green Building in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon for the wonderful wedding of our friends, Miles and Ginann and then back on the highway Monday morning to Cape May, New Jersey to do a one-nighter there. Cape May was a blast. We were treated to some serious South Jersey hospitality and the audience was a crackerjack. We’ll get back to Cape May.
Getting home always has it problems — six weeks of unopened mail, the musty smell of a closed-up apartment and, worst of all, stale espresso beans in my grinder. I got my sneakers on and hightailed it up to Mani Market Place on 94th and Columbus. Mani is the nearest purveyor of my favorite coffee — The Porto Rico Coffee Company’s Café Blend – whole bean, please.
But when I got there, the cupboard was bare. The three shelves that are usually stacked with bags of the various blends of Porto Rico coffee were all but empty. There was certainly no Café Blend to be had.
And then a light bulb flashed on above my head: our son, Max, who drives the delivery truck for Porto Rico when he’s not making music is on vacation this week. At my expense.
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Hope you got your coffee problems handled!
P.S. Forever grateful for you turning us on to porchetta…whether from a truck in Umbria or the faux porchetta we make at home (still tasty but no strong contender to the real deal)
Sept. 4, 2012
Cape May, NJ is a jewel box place worth returning to often. I was there in mid-July and got a “Key Lime Martini” at the town’s largest outdoor sidewalk cafe place which cost $10, and was worth every penny.
The Cape May supermarket (can’t remember it’s official name) is filled with gourmet stuff usually found only in high-end Gucci type grocery stories in big city and rich suburb areas serving the rich and selective….amazing selection of cheese and fresh vegetables, and wonderful fish in many hard to get catagories (oysters in July?….the store had ‘em!).
Old Cape May hotel places are worth visiting, esp. the Chalfonte hotel (set up after the Civil War, still operating, and beautifully restored with a hugh wrap around porch veranda equippede with great rocking chairs, and a bar which opens daily at 3 PM….watch the sidewalk people go by and booze with the gentry there……warning…the Chalfonte has no air conditioned rooms at all….visit and even camp there, but sleep someplace with A/C!).
There are two Equity accredited theatre venues (one of which featured “Mike’s Shorts”…for details, see Google.Com), and a very interesting non-equity show biz, theatre presentation hotel quite near the Equity places, run by a curious, charming, and eccentric older lady, and staffed with wanna-be show biz kids college age….includes many pretty girls, dancers, etc. Friendly place (which Equity places never are) worth visiting, even staying at.
We are in Umbria right now thanks to reading your book. Never thought I’d be in Italy. Love it. Thank you so much.
@ Jim — Great. Have a ball. It’s beautiful this time of year.