What a perfect day to take my second excursion down to Governor's Island (formerly Nut Island) with my friend Ms. Wunderful. We had trekked down there earlier in the summer for a ridiculously bizarre art festival called Figment, but this time we went for something slightly more mainstream (at least in the foodie world). It was a panel discussion of the book Gastropolis, which delves into the city's 'food heritage.' The panel presenters started off a little too academic for my tastes, but overall the entire presentation was pretty interesting. When discussing two things of the things I love most in this world, food and NYC, it’s hard to go wrong!
As an interesting side note, when we first arrived at Pershing Hall for the panel, there was some confusion about whether or not the event was actually going to take place. Hardly anyone had shown up, and the event space wasn’t set up at all. Four of us were sitting outside waiting to see what would happen, when and older guy on a bicycle drives up. Ms. Wunderful & I greet him “Hi, how ya doing?”… mostly because we’re nice people with good manners. His response: “Why are you so friendly?” Not joking at all, he actually seemed annoyed that we had greeted him (turns out he was a contributing author for the book, and the owner of Russ & Daughters on the Lower East Side). You have to love well-seasoned grumpy-ass New Yorkers!
Not only did I enjoy some free culture & beautiful views today, but I also made up a bit for all of my gym slackage. After walking the perimeter of Gov's Island and then walking all the way home from South Ferry, I calculated on Google pedometer that I put in almost 6 miles on foot today! Looking forward to sleeping good tonight...
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