I met Ed Levine, April Bloomfield and spotted Josh Hartnett at The Spotted Pig

Here are snippets from Ed's post on Serious Eats on 2.28 so you can see how my day started out. After his post, see my note about The Spotted Pig.

We were having an important meeting at Serious Eats headquarters starting at 11 a.m. that would likely go all day, so I bought a few breakfast items for our guests at Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery:

• A cinnamon-honey scone
• A caramel macaroon
• A coconut-pineapple macaroon
• A brown-butter-pecan macaroon
• Two pesto croissants
• A small coffee cake
• An exotic-fruit danish
• A pistachio-cherry brioche
• Pain au chocolat

A late lunch followed three hours later at The Spotted Pig.I ordered two desserts for the table to share—a banana toffee pie and a ginger cake—and had two forkfuls of each.

I think I had about five forkfuls of each. So I hadn't had meat in a number of months but when Ed started singing praises of the Serious Sandwich, the Cubano, at The Spotted Pig, I had to indulge and order it. It was a triple indulgence. I'll never forget it. He reports that April Bloomfield uses heritage pork shoulder and brines it for three days, slow-roasting it, and then cooking it in duck and pork fat.

See Ed's take here.

Not only was that ginger cake divine, there was also a little eye candy for dessert, Josh Hartnett across the room.