Hey, "Top Chef" fans... I haven't been to Craft yet (I told Andy that's where I want to go when we sell our screenplay, but now I'm thinking I should pick another milestone, like one that just rolls around on the calendar without my having to accomplish anything), but I've tasted Colicchio. Ew, that didn't come out right.

After working for a few hours in the library Saturday, I needed to eat before seeing "Rescue Dawn", so I went to one of the 'wichcraft kiosks in Bryant Park and bought his anchovy salad. I liked it a lot and will have it again. Here's the flavor line-up for you profilers: bitter frisee, caramelized onions, a soft-cooked egg, fresh, meaty anchovies (not the super salty leaches you put in caesar salad), croutons, and a parsley vinagarette. I rejected the proferred crostini and, because they were about to close, free cookies. Damn you, South Beach! Yes, I really liked that salad, and it was not what you expect to be eating in a park, it was so not all pre-made and mushy-tasting.

There's only one part of New York I've found so far that I really don't care for--SoHo. My movie was at the Angelika (where Ross and Rachael saw "How Stella Got Her Groove Back", for you potential World Series of Pop Culture wannabes). So SoHo has expensive and/or trendy stores (Prada, Pottery Barn), Balthazar, Rachael Ray's favorite restaurant, which I admit was pretty good, and a lot of twenty-somethings with money. Nothing interesting to look at.

I was almost to the subway entrance when a guy cleaning up a flower display at a bodega shoved one too many pails onto his side of the cart, which meant one rolled over and one fell out--onto me. I laughed when I pieced out what had happened then thought the guy would be scared that I'd yell at him, so I smiled and gave him an "I'm not a dick" wave. "Hey lady!" some guy walking behind me yelled as I hit the stairs down to the subway, "count your blessings, that could have been piss. Welcome to New York!" I bristled at being mistaken for a tourist, but I was carrying a back pack. And the water--actually, because it was so hot, it was pretty refreshing.