Good morning, New Yorkers! It’s a beautiful day.
cloudy with a chance of meatballs
sunny with highs in the 60s!
Why not take advantage of the suggestively springlike breezes to go outside and do some grocery shopping?
if you don’t look, you might miss it
May I recommend Tedone Latticini at 597 Metropolitan Ave in historic Williamsburg (…Brooklyn)? I had first seen this store window back in May while watching One in 8 Million, nytimes’ audio-visual series on random New Yorkers (e.g. “The Urban Taxidermist”). “The Mozzarella Maker” is Georgiana DePalma, a 90-something-year-old who still makes mozzarella, manning the counter at Tedone on Saturdays:
If I didn’t have my own independence, that would be putting me in a coffin.
One afternoon this January I almost walked right on by that storefront, until a vision of the stunning photograph of Georgiana sitting behind the counter said to me: Hold on. This is Georgia’s place. Without searching for it, I found it, and there was Georgia right in front of me, greeting the steady flow of neighborhood patrons. Everyone calls her Georgie– Jawrrr-jeeee— pronounced like the cleaning lady George was screwing in The Red Dot/cashmere episode.
Before heading out for your own mozzarella balls (or a fine eggplant/mozzarella/prosciutto sandwich), watch “The Mozzarella Maker” for its stunning black and white photographs and to hear DePalma’s transporting voice. Afterwards, there’s no way you can miss Tedone and its very special lady behind the counter.
[mairin]
keep the seinfeld references coming! genius.