Best Milkshake of my Life?

    Take a look at this thing:

  I traveled over 40 blocks for this thing on my hour lunch break today. The toasted marshmallow milkshake at Stand. Topped with two toasted marshmallows (go figure) it was like drinking the best part of a s'more. Chunks of marshmallow and whipped cream served as part of my lunch today. The other part? Burger soup. 

   Definitely not as fulfilling as the heavenly shake, especially since the name "burger soup" gave me an entirely different image. Since when did a burger have pasta in it? My idea of burger soup would be a beef broth, bits of ground meat, bacon, cheese, and bread. Luckily, Stand makes up for their false advertising with their campfire milkshake.

     

   When I am not obsessing over food, I am actually doing some work! These past two days I have had to update a lot of new campaign stuff for my boss and some of the creatives. I also had my last Q&A session today with the head of DDb Brand strategies. In other words, she comes up with how to market a product, the tone it should set, and who they should be advertising to. It was pretty interesting especially since anthropology plays a big role in advertising. That's something I never really would have thought of. Here is a VW ad that she gave as an example today that is so smart and clever:  

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVvlyHQVjs

   After work today I headed up near Times Square to a food panel Q&A session that I signed up for through ed2010. If you want to go into journalism that is the best site in the world. 

   The panel had 5 editors who work with Everyday with Rachael Ray, Food Network Magazine, Saveur, Time Out NY and Delish.com. There were about 25-30 college aged students there. It was great to get some insight on how to break into the food writing world. Listening to them speak about what they do makes me want to go into food journalism even more. I am pretty sure I am going to start a restaurant review blog for Harrisonburg when I get back. That blog probably won't have readers on the edge of their seats (like this one does -ha!) but a blog looks great during an interview. 

   Forgot to mention that last night as a bit of an Ireland reunion for me. Joey, Emily and her friend came to midtown after I got out of work and we went to an Irish pub to get some dinner. After my hearty shepherds pie and pint of Smithwicks, we walked about 20 blocks to a bar called third and long. We hung there for awhile and Emily's friend even won a round of beer bingo. Guess I don't need to mention that the bar was not the classiest. Still fun though! It's always great to reminisce about Ireland! 

   I am looking forward to next Monday too. Of course it has something to do with food. Two of the girls I work with suggested we go out to dinner to this great Mexican restaurant called La Esquina. One of the girls made reservations today thanks in part to her amazing connections. Apparently it's a pretty hard restaurant to get reservations at because a good amount of celebs have been seen there or mentioned it. I remember Kelly Ripa said something about like back in December. It's a little corner run down deli, but if you go through a door that says "staff only" and down the stairs it is actually a really nice restaurant -- you would never know! Minus the whole presenting to the CEO on the same day, I am still looking forward to Monday!