GO by AirTran Airways

If you're flying AirTran Airways this month, take a peek at Page 18 of Go, their in-flight magazine. Natalie Portman is on the cover of this January 2011 issue, and I'm featured in the "blog feed" section with Five Picks for NYC Hot Chocolate. Hope you enjoy!

Chocolate Fix!

La Maison du Chocolate - "The signature Caracas hot chocolate here is a sublimely dark and sophisticated number, silky with bold flavors, and has the most elegant presentation in town."

City Bakery - This decadently creamy classic is superbly thick with a consistency near pudding. Don't forget to top off your cup with a plush homemade marshmallow."

Jacques Torres - You can't go wrong with the Wicked hot cocoa, infused with ancho and chipotle chili peppers, cinnamon and allspice."

Otto - "Hazelnut-steeped milk is the foundation for the gianduja calda, a thick drink made with a duo of milk chocolates. It comes with buttery shortbread, perfectly suited for dunking."

Tarallucci E Vino - "This excellent everyday hot chocolate is not too thick or too thing. For the purist, it comes completely unsweetened and explodes with pure, heady dark chocolate."

P.S.
Wanted to share this photo that Robyn posted on Flickr. There's a definite slope to the shot that makes it look like we're sinking, but I love it anyways. It was taken in the lounge of Blue Hill at Stone Barns prior to lunch. Right to left: Greg, Robyn, Diana and myself. View the whole set, Robyn's photos are pretty awesome.

Interview with Barney's

I recently did an interview with Kate Sung of Barney's, and it was just posted it on B-Sides, the Barney's blog. The theme for their 2010 holiday display windows is "Have a Foodie Holiday," so you can understand how this is appropriate ;)

Check out the interview here, or just scroll down. Hope everyone is having a great week! Went to Pioneer Saloon with Farida and Lisa for lunch today, then to Coffee or Tea? for afternoon snack (papaya milk!). My parents had a party at home this evening...catering from Pho 777 and Fook Yuen, cleaning up the kitchen now. Munching on the leftovers. What I'd give to extend this Hawai'i vacation...though am superduper excited to spend both Christmas and New Years in NYC for the first time.

NYC: Cooking Channel: Doughnuts at The Donut Pub

Hope everyone is having a good Saturday!

If you have time tomorrow night (12/12), tune into the Cooking Channel at 11pm EST for the Donuts episode of United Tastes of America. I appear in a short bit with Jeffrey Saad. We filmed at the Donut Pub on 14th Street earlier this summer, so it's exciting to see this on television! I'm a big fan of their mini doughnuts, which I blogged about on Serious Eats...

Above is the Cinnamon-Sugar and the Powdered Sugar mini, they also put out a Red Velvet mini earlier this year and those are amazing. It puts any red velvet layer cake or cupcake to shame. A good deal too - three mini-doughnuts for $1.25. I was lucky enough to meet the owner, his wife, and their three daughters while filming this episode. Genuinely sweet people. The Donut Pub has been around since 1964, opened 24/7...I've been here at 7am, 7pm, midnight and all other odd hours of the day. They also bake big muffins but I have yet to try those...perhaps the next visit.

Super thanks to Christine for telling me about it! The episode first aired last Tuesday and I didn't even know about it. They'll be airing the show a few more times in January as well if you miss the one tomorrow.

Am off to Hawai'i in just one day!

Max Ferguson: Remember Spring 2009?

Max Ferguson and I at his Gallery Henoch exhibition opening

A chance encounter at an East Village caf� led to this.

And tonight - a year and a half later, was the opening reception for Max Ferguson's Urban Intimacy, his first solo exhibition in half a decade. Check out The Daily News article on Max and his approach to painting.

I went to the opening at Gallery Henoch with Monsieur P this evening, and it was so wonderful and strange to see myself in a painting! The painting - oil on panel, is titled "Woman in Caf�."

And really, that's what I do best: newspaper, coffee, and cake in a caf� on any given afternoon ;)

Doughnuts!

Last week, I met with Suzanne Ma, reporter for the Associated Press.

The subject? DOUGHNUTS.

Suzanne had found me via the NYC Doughnut article I wrote for Serious Eats. We met in the afternoon, at the Herald Square location of one of new twelve Tim Horton's shops to hit the city.

The article, published on Yahoo news, and some other places, is titled "Canadian doughnut chain enters NYC doughnut wars." I'm just briefly mentioned in two paragraphs but there's a photo of me licking away crumbs, holding a bitten iced-chocolate cake doughnut in my right hand, and a chocolate-covered chocolate cake doughnut in my other hand.

TWO KINDS OF CHOCOLATE CAKE DOUGHNUTS.

...you can never have too many...heheh

I'd tell you more about how we sampled twelve doughnuts (including this crazy looking blueberry number) on a Wednesday afternoon, but Suzanne's behind the scenes post on our meeting at, "Fried dough, what�s not to like?� �the story behind the story�" is much more awesome than what I could write...make sure to read it! ^_^

Strangely enough, eating all those doughnuts made me crave malassadas from the Punahou Carnival. Sigh, you can never win ;)

Happy Sunday!

In the NY Times Today...Pizza

The New York Times ran a piece on "The New Generation of Pizzerias" in the city today, and used a few of my photos from Veloce Pizzeria...see here! I thought that was pretty cool, heehee.

Happy Wednesday!

Conde Nast Traveler

Super duper thanks to Joyce, who's comment in the last post alerted me of some pretty neat news...I'm in this month's issue of Conde Nast Traveler! Wheee! hehe ^_^

As soon as I saw the comment around 1am last night, Zubair and I ran to the 24 hour magazine shop next to L'arte del Gelato on Bleecker & 7th Avenue to pick up an issue. So exciting!

Just a tiny blurb on page 104, but I thought it was pretty cool ^_^ Makes me miss Thang's avocado smoothies and lunches at Andy's back home...hopefully I'll get to make a trip back to Hawai'i later this year.

Happy Sunday :)

Radio!! ^_^

I'll be on WNYC FM 93.9 tomorrow (Monday) morning at 11:55am on the Brian Lehrer Show. Listen in if you can! The subject? Brown bagging lunch ideas - see/listen here :) Spam musubis will be discussed for sure, heehee.

Hope you're having an awesome weekend!

About Today's New York Times Article

I agreed to be interviewed by Kayleen Schaefer for a New York Times article that, presumably, was about how beauty companies and agencies are recognizing the growing influence of blogs. However, when Ms. Schaefer began questioning me about trips to Paris, free Chanel bags, and spa getaways (none of which I have ever been offered or received), I contemplated ending the interview. I should have!

Beauty Addict is one of WWD's Top Ten Beauty Blogs!

What a great way to start the weekend! Beauty Addict is listed as one of the ten hottest beauty blogs in WWD's "Beauty's Big Bloggers" story. Click here to see the whole story (unfortunately, it's available to subscribers only), and chek out the snippet at left (click to enlarge).Congratulations to all the fab bloggers who made the list...All About the Pretty, Beauty Blogging Junkie, Beauty Snob

Welcome Sunday Times Readers!

I've been so engrossed in my own little world of wrist fractures, summer colds and celebrity blind items that I totally missed a press mention in the Sunday Times in the UK last weekend:"MUST-READ BLOG SITEShttp://www.beautyaddict.blogspot.com/ Self-proclaimed New York beauty junkie Kristen Kelly�s blog reads like a breezy letter to friends. If she doesn�t like a product, she says so. She also

Tagged!

I've Been Tagged =)

...by Madam Chow's Kitchen!

Here are 8 random facts about me...some are silly, others are stupid, hopefully more are interesting, I just hope you have fun reading it!

1. I've lived in at least 8 different homes since I was born. My mom and dad are realtors and developers...so every time they think we can make a capital gain on a home sale, we pack our bags and move! It's kinda fun, I've had a chance to live all over East Oahu and get to know each neighborhood pretty well.

2. I was born and raised in Honolulu and went to high school at Punahou. Freshman year of college at NYU, decided that I loved the city, but not the school. So I transferred to Claremont McKenna the following year. At Claremont I found I like the school, but not the location (at the border of the LA County) so I decided to graduate a year early and move back to NYC. To make a long story short - just graduated this spring, spending the summer in Hawaii and moving to NYC in the fall.

3. I had my wisdom teeth taken out two days ago. I've gone through 3-22 ounce containers of Kozy Shack rice pudding in the last three days.

4. On the subject of exercise and fitness: no weights, no sports. I will not run, but really like to walk. Seriously!

5. Porcupines are my favorite animals in the world. Dogs are a close second.

6. I used to be a runway model for Chanel. But then I got old and fat (as far as the modeling industry is concerned). So no more modeling for me. But I still harbor an expensive fetish for Chanel bags.

7. I'm fluent in Cantonese and know enough Teo Chew to hold a decent conversation. Studied Spanish for four years, but the only thing I can remember is, "Tengo Hambre!" (I'm hungry).

8. Favorite vegetable: eggplant! :)

I tag:

Kirk at Mmm-Yoso!!!
Reid at Ono Kine Grindz
Da Weekend Foodie
Ron at Hotel Waikiki
Anuhea at The Cuis-Zine

Beauty Addict In the News!

If you're in New York, pick up a copy of today's New York Daily News!Yours truly wrote the lovely Holiday Beauty Gift Guide that's in today's paper. So, if you still have some names on your list this year, take a look for some inspiration!Unfortunately, since space is tight, only 8 of my original 30 picks made it into the final story (the remaining 4 on the page were chosen by the News editors).

In the News...

I was reading one of my absolute favorite blogs today, and what do I come upon but this:This piece on fragrance blogs is from September's Perfumer & Flavorist, the trade mag for perfume. What a treat for a dreary Monday! I'm honored to be listed (with my relatively small fragrance post collection) among such wonderful sites as:AromascopeScentzillaBois de JasminNow Smell This Perfume Posse Perfume

Beauty Junk

Many of you saw Beauty Addict featured in the August issue of Allure ("Beauty Junkies," p. 196). Thank you so much to the readers who sent congratulatory messages; and welcome to any new readers who discovered Beauty Addict through the story!I was so thrilled to open up Allure and see my "all-time favorite products" listed, but when I read the list, I have to admit that I was thoroughly

Beauty Addict in the News: Lancome

I was so thrilled to see Lancome's lastest newsletter, featuring my very own review of Fatale mascara from a few weeks back:Click on the image to enlarge.I really do love Fatale and highly recommend that you pick up a tube if you're bored with your current mascara or just want to add extra oomph to your lashes. I hadn't bought anything but drugstore mascaras for years, but Fatale is certainly

Beauty Addict In The News

Well looky here! Beauty Addict and many of its blog buddies are in this month's Women's Wear Daily Beauty Biz.It's always exciting to see your name and your "baby" in print. Love, love, love the "Premise" blurb, which was skillfully gleaned from the glut of beauty blog philosophy that I emailed the writer. However, I think the blurb chosen for the "Notable Post" section is lame; it makes me sound

Gonna Make It After All...

This is a picture of how I am feeling today:And this is why:New York Times Style Section

Media Buzz

Big step today...I now have my very own banner ads to display on BlogExplosion. Since I am in fact a marketing person in real life, I thought I would come up with some fun ad copy. Check out the hot banners below (clicking on them will not take you anywhere, as you're already here):