The Kitchen Tool Odyssey

I found out that there are many kitchen supply stores along the Bowery from Houston Street, Soho to Canal Street in Chinatown. With not too many fine days left we walked the walk. I found baking utensils at good prices in these no-frills stores: a 6 cup muffin tin for $7.00, a pancake turner for $4.50, a spatula for $3.50, a bench scraper for $3.00, and a pie server for $2.50. Such good deals! You can see where we went today. Try moving the arrows on this little map I embedded below. It's interactive.

Wall with graffiti on the Bowery©AJ Wang

 Afterwards, AJ had a hankering for Vietnamese sub sandwiches. He said a good one was near Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan. It was only the next stop over on the #6 from Canal Street, so off we went. The shop is on Broadway between Chambers and Warren Streets. As is the custom with these sandwich shops, this little shop had no tables. We bought our sandwiches and went home. The bread was crusty on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. Perfect. You were expecting pictures, perhaps? These elusive sub sandwiches never last long enough to be photographed. Sigh.

City Hall©AJ Wang

City Hall Park©AJ Wang

Mangez Avec Moi©AJ Wang

My New Kitchen Tools

Strawberry Fields, Forever

The memorial © corliss-lamont.org

John and me

Today is John Lennon's 70th birthday. Should that be "would have been"? It seems to me that when you are immortal you are still in the present. So it's is. Fans of all ages gathered at Strawberry Fields in Central Park to celebrate his life through the music he made.

the Sign

The memorial this afternoon

I was in the third row behind the musicians and couldn't move any closer. I asked this lady who was in the second row to take this picture. After I did that, three others nearby asked her to do the same. Do you see the green apples? I saw two women placing the apples on the memorial and I was slow to realize what they meant. Of course, Apple Corps, the Beatles' record company.

The crowd

It seemed to be an impromptu jam session. People brought their instruments and shared in the music. It was a beautiful day, skies were sunny and clear, the temperature was in the seventies. And the music was from the sixties. Everyone sang along.

The musicians

Playing along

Solemn boy in a suit with electric guitar

Sgt. Pepper was there

John's look-alike, too