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The Noodle Cure: Winter Edition
The wind was whipping. My gloved fingertips were going numb and my cheeks resembled New York Giants’ Coach Tom Coughlin’s after spending a January Sunday in Green Bay. Winter had finally come to New...
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Rooftop Iced Coffee
I heard something on the radio the other day during the hysteria surrounding the frigid snap that recently gripped the northeast. A man was telling the story of how he was working in single digit...
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Poultry Panic Postponed
This past week panic gripped the nation when rumors of a chicken wing scarcity went viral. Was it a conspiracy to jack up prices on the eve of the greatest consumption of chicken wings: Super Bowl...
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Neck Bones’ Fat Tuesday Red Beans and Rice
Memorable food moments in film have been well documented. One of my favorites occurs in the 1978 masterpiece from filmmaker Les Blank, Always for Pleasure, the documentary about Mardi Gras traditions...
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Name That Place
Instead of a bunch of price gouged roses or a mediocre prix fixe Valentine’s dinner, I want express my faith in your New York food knowledge along with my appreciation for all your support to Fried...
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And the Answer is…
Most times you need to… To be able to buy delicious Italian delicacies such as these… Prosciutto di Parma and these… in this place. Located on Mott and Grand Street for 87 years. And for the bonus...
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Your Gravy is My Sauce: A Concession to the Dark Side
Sauce In the latter quarter of the previous century when I was in college, my dorm buddies and I had many bong and beer fueled discussions. Subjects ranged from who was the better detective, Kojak or...
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The Sloppy Joe Account
Back in 1968, when, according to the imagination of television’s Mad Men creator, Matthew Weiner, groups of Mad men were competing for the Heinz ketchup advertising account, the Sloppy Joe was a...
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Tomato Sauce in the Raw
Every August or September, Goomba Joe, who I wrote about in these pages regarding his meatballs (Goomba Joe’s Polpette), would invite my family up to his apartment for dinner where one of the...
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Porch Pickled Peppers
The growing season on our terrace was an uneven one. Most of the spring was very cool and wet. By the end of June and early July we entered a brief period of extreme heat followed by an abnormally...
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