Table of Contents
Introduction: Tiny Hot Dogs ix
Part I Carvel: The Wonder Years 1
Pizza in a Cup
My Bat Mitzvah
Playing "Johnny Carson"
Hong Kong Flu
Put Your Socks and Your Panties On
What's a Patagonia?
Italian Hot Dogs
Part II Cigarettes: Things Are Going To Start Happening To Me Now 45
One Christopher Street
The Captain and Tennille
Careful What You Wish For
Lunch with Bob
Suddenly I See
Colin Cowie and My Joan Rivers Earrings
Am I a Foodie?
Strippers Eat Hors d'Oeuvres Too
Harry Potter
Short Acre Farm
Just Eat the Doritos
Part III Cocktails: Looks Like We've Made It 121
It Could Have Been Baldwin
Eating Stories Lists
My Date with the Barefoot Contessa
Waiting for Godot Woodstock-Style
Longing to Create
Games People Play
Maeby Gala
Mazel Chow
Love and Marriage … and a Catering Company
Things I'm Looking Forward to Teaching My Daughter
Lady Lobsters
Private Planes
Laughing in Her Sleep
Goodnight, Goodman
Free HBO
That's All I Need
Acknowledgments 229