Mom was right about a lot of things.  Eat all your vegetables, say please and thank you, sit up straight at the table.  But there is one rule of etiquette that Mom had all wrong.  It is in fact okay to pick up your soup and drink it right out of the bowl.  At least that’s the case at top New York City restaurant Nobu 57, where last week I was presented with one of the most delicious cups of  Miso soup I have ever tasted, sans spoon.  Hearing Mom’s voice in my head I of course immediately asked for a spoon, only to be told by my server that the chef  recommends that his guests skip the spoon and pick up their cup of soup like a mug.  And yes, it did taste better that way.

 

I had no such confusion about how to drink my  Red Berry Harvest, a smoothie-like martini which was not only tasty and refreshing  but, just in case Mom is reading this, also contains powerful anti-oxidants that promote health and longevity (at least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!).  Nobu 57’s Red Berry Harvest, served at this midtown restaurant’s elegant street level lounge, is made with fresh blueberries, and Vincent Van Gogh Acai-Blueberry Vodka.  Blueberries are loaded with antioxidants that promote health and wellness, and the South American acai berry boasts ten times the antioxidant  benefits of grapes and twice that of blueberries.  Of course the vodka also had its own positive  effect on my well being, but Mom doesn’t need to know about that.

 

 Rob Lubin