{"id":732,"date":"2006-02-23T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/for_goodness_sake_have_a_human_child_already_and_if_thats_not_possible_adopt.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T08:30:09","slug":"for_goodness_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/for_goodness_sa.html","title":{"rendered":"For Goodness&#8217; Sake, Have A Human Child Already (And If That&#8217;s Not Possible, Adopt!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dog owners are scary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/23\/nyregion\/23ink.html\/partner\/rssnyt\">Really, really scary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A few weeks ago, the owners of the Chocolate Room, home of the $40-a-pound raspberry-peppercorn ganache, paid a visit to the bakery that had just opened across the street from the trattoria that sells pizza flaked with actual gold leaf. They complimented, with a tinge of envy, the Blodgett ovens behind the bakery counter.<\/p>\n<p>Not much to envy, the bakers replied. &#8220;They said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t buy these ovens because they&#8217;re convection ovens and our cupcakes come out windblown,'&#8221; said Naomi Josepher, one of the chocolatiers.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Josepher was perplexed. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Your cupcakes look a lot better than ours. And anyway you guys are serving dogs and we&#8217;re serving people.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah. And?<\/p>\n<p>It is true. The bakery, Buttercup&#8217;s Paw-tisserie, claims to be the first doggie bakery in the whole city that makes its treats on-premises. Take that, SoHo.<\/p>\n<p>And P.S.: The cupcakes, known in this case as pupcakes, are not in the least windblown. They are in fact perfect miniatures, with a perfect white yogurt-icing paw print embossed upon a silken crust of carob.<\/p>\n<p>They are also utterly delicious. To humans. As well they should be, considering the all-natural human-grade ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stuff we use here is healthier than what we eat,&#8221; Betty Wong said from behind the counter, as her business partner and brother-in-law, Scott Wong, prepared a tray of wheat-free liver-and-herb biscotti for the oven.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paw-tisserie also offers coconut-coated carob-crunch truffles ($1.50), liver-cheese brownies (75 cents), salmon crackers with seaweed and anchovy paste ($6.95 for &#8220;a barker&#8217;s dozen&#8221;) and pupcakes ($1.50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog owners are scary. Really, really scary: A few weeks ago, the owners of the Chocolate Room, home of the $40-a-pound raspberry-peppercorn ganache, paid a visit to the bakery that had just opened across the street from the trattoria that sells pizza flaked with actual gold leaf. They complimented, with a tinge of envy, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}