What are the three best sounds every day? The breakfast bell, the lunch bell and the dinner bell, right?

Do you count the minutes until it's time to eat? Good; that makes two of us. If it was up to me, I'd eat all day and there is nothing more I love than good food — and NYC has plenty of it.

We are well known for our fine restaurants and for good reason, however, what a lot of people may not know is that our food shops are second to none and are beautiful, glamorous shrines to fine food.

We have shops that import exotic spices from all over the world, rare and hard to find candies, rare and hard to find fruit and nuts, smoked fish and cured meats, spice- and herb-infused oils and vinegars — enough fine foods to set your heart racing and your pulse beating. Fine food is a love of the best things in life.