Early in the morning...well, maybe around 10:30 am we had a wonderful brunch made by Robert with fresh squeezed apple juice! Yum:) Then off we ventured into the Manhattan area to locate our Foods of New York, Cultural and food tasting walking tour of Greenwich Village. We had booked it and there were to be 15 people in our group. Only 14 showed up though. Who would schedule and pay for a walking tour and food tasting then not even show up! Not us, we were there! Not even the promise of rain kept us away.
Our 1st Stop was Joe's Pizza-The home of the NY style Pizza. Great Pizza and has also been featured in movies about NY City.
As you can see Charlie and Rita really liked it. At this time there was no rain...but not for long....By the time we had checked out a Bistro, another Pizza place, and tasted some Olive oil. By this time we had arrived at Cornelia Street, and the rain got going STRONG.
Robert was prepared though.
Our guide gave a lot of history of the area and the row houses along with back houses history. Bet you never knew that Manhattan was once farming area and the original farm houses got closed between the blocks of row houses on the edges of the streets and they were left inside with only one entrance out. Some of them no longer even had a road into them! For instance here is a back house (behind our tour guide in the blue coat and curly hair) behind the Palma Restaurant a 4 story row house . Originally, the people that owned the restaurant lived in it and had the restaurant in the row house in the front. One time someone wanted a private party and that was the end of living in a 1700's house surrounded by row houses. They now live above the restaurant and give special parties in the back house.
With the rain coming down we were glad to get into any of the restaurants for our tastings and the Centro Vinoteca had some great samples plus we got to warm up as the rain was really cold now!
It was so cold I even got my mittens out. Our next stop was a famous Grove Court (formerly Mixed Ale Alley before Prohibition). It was renamed to fit with the laws of the Prohibition but was still full of liquor. We only found water and rain there though, the liquor was long gone!
Next was the "Friends" apartment. Across the street was the only wooden house in Manhattan. It had a cute little owl on the top corner. 
By far, the favorite was "Milk and Cookies Bakery" Warm, dry, and smelt so good!
Our last stop and we ended up at Murray's Cheese shop for a cheese, olive, and sopresata tasting. We also got to buy some afterwards with a discount coupon!
We all went back to Robert and Erin's apartment where naps were in order before we went out to a Peruvian Restaurant, "Pio Pio". We would recommend it if you are ever in the city. Also, Aunt Linda, we were shown to a Pizza and Pasta place that sold all gluten free foods! Yeah! Now for the answer to the question in the email letting you know there was a new update. That is the definition of a farmer?
Answer: Someone who is outstanding in his field. (Thought you'd like that Ben and Naomi)
Love Mom (Darleena)
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