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Free Will Astrology: November 30 - December 6, 2011

THE SPICE OF LIFE

Chefs crank up the heat with chile

Chipotle Doubles Its Organic Produce Use; John Huntsman Digs Mexican Street Food

​LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold scores the best assignment ever -- comparing Copenhagen's Noma, San Pellegrino's top restaurant of the year, with Grant Achatz's Alinea for GQ. [HuffPo] The clear grape spirit pisco, originally from Chile and Peru, is making inroads into the crowded U.S. liquor mark ... More >>

A Week After Coup Leaves Allende Dead, No One Knows Anything

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 20, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 38 The Press Desk by Alexander Cockburn THERE HAVE BEEN HEADLINES in the papers and cover stories in Time and Newsweek but one of the central facts about Chile, so far as the world's newspaper-readin ... More >>

Cornelius Gets a New Chef, Wine on Tap

Wine, stat​Cornelius in Prospect Heights has long been a neighborhood favorite for its $1 oysters at happy hour. Now that it has added wine on tap to its repertoire, locals have even more reason to flock there at the end of the workday.

Patricio Guzman Refuses to Forget the Bloody Past

An Earthquake Hit Long Island Today. Did the Earth Move for You?

via NYT/Google Maps​This is nothing to our West Coast brethren, but it's kind of a big deal to us. A 3.9 magnitude earthquake in the Atlantic Ocean, about 80 miles off the coast of Long Island's Southampton, occurred around 10:45 a.m. today. According to WNYC, it was even "felt by a New York T ... More >>

South America's Hot Dog Holy Trinity

Victoria BekiempisChile's frank offer.​ The simple hot dog suffers from an identity crisis. Perhaps Frank has recently seen too many mumblecore movies, and has decided that his normal routine -- a squirt of ketchup, a dollop of mustard, a spoonful of pickle relish, even sauerkraut on fancy occ ... More >>

Ace In The Hole: Rightbloggers Say Chile Mine Rescue Means Obama Sucks, Capitalism Rules

Last week we talked about the Tennessee fire department that let a man's house burn to the ground because he hadn't paid protection money, and the rightbloggers who thought this was a laudable example of free market justice. This week they celebrated another free market triumph -- though at least t ... More >>

Drill Reaches Trapped Chilean Miners

​A rescue drill has made contact with the 33 miners trapped underground for over two months, the New York Times is reporting. A giant drill finished creating a hole through which to rescue the miners, though decisions must still be made about how much to enforce the walls before bringing the m ... More >>

New York Film Festival: The Hype and the Substance

This year's NYFF manages both. Plus: Our best of the fest

Guerrilla Epic Battle of Chile, Back Onscreen at the Maysles

Trapped Chilean Miners Have No Idea Their Rescue May Take Four Months

​As we learned earlier this week, there are 33 miners trapped 2,000 feet underground after a mine cave-in in San Jose, Chile. Fortunately, they are all still alive. Unfortunately, it's going to take three to four months to extricate them, via drilling a hole large enough for their release. Thi ... More >>

Morning Links: Egg Recall Now Massive; Miners Trapped Underground in Chile Are Alive; Gator Sighting in Astoria

​• Half a billion eggs are now being recalled in 17 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin) due to a salmonella outbreak traced back to two Iowa egg producers, Hi ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Sweet Talk on New York Beekeeping; A Fungus-Filled Mushroom Class

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! The Secret Lives of (NYC) Bees The Elixir Bar at ABC Kitchen Tuesday, July 20 at 5 p.m. Jean-Georges Vongerichten's newest darling of the culinary world, with its s ... More >>

Araucana Chicken Eggs Are Beautiful Inside and Out

​ Araucana chicken eggs have become an increasingly common sight at the farmers' market over the past few years, but even so, the pale blue shells never cease to delight shoppers more accustomed to their more mundane white and brown counterparts. This past weekend at the Union Square Greenmar ... More >>

'Hard Shake' Inventor Comes to Town; Drink a Pickleback this St. Paddy's

​The effects of the recent earthquake in Chile are still being felt across the wine industry, especially by smaller producers, many of which may go bankrupt. [Bloomberg] Inventor of the "hard shake" Kazuo Uyeda will be in New York May 3 to lead a mixology seminar and promote the first English ... More >>

Chilean Wine Producer Forced to Halt Production; Moonshine Goes Artisanal

​A new poll shows that most New Yorkers support selling wine in supermarkets. Opponents say it would put many small liquor stores out of business and cost the state thousands of jobs. [Crains] Chile's biggest winemaker, Concha y Toro, has stopped production for at least a week following the e ... More >>

'Blkmarket Membership Presents Junction SM'

Strange Snacks of the World: Baby Coconuts

​ ​Nothing like eating a handful of crunchy baby coconuts for a snack. Known as coquitos in their native Chile, baby coconuts are the immature fruit of Jubaea chilensis, a palm tree that favors temperate climates, can grow to a height of 50 to 80 feet, and can live 100 years. The baby ... More >>

Watch Chantal on the Travel Channel Tonight!

Our very own Chantal Martineau will be on your teevee tonight! She's one of five stars of the Travel Channel's Confessions of a Travel Writer, which airs tonight at 9pm, just before the new No Reservations. Tonight's episode finds Chantal in Chile, talking about wine. We think you ought to watch it ... More >>

Booze News: Diageo Names Bartender of the Year; Starbucks to Serve Booze

Wondering what Marco Pierre White has been up to since The Chopping Block? For starters, he got his drink on as the host of spirits brand Diageo's Bartender of the Year 2009 awards in London. Aristotelis Papadopoulos from Thessaloniki beat 18 finalists from as far as Korean and the Cayman Islands. [ ... More >>

A New Deputy Food Commissioner Will Protect Us From Our Food Here at Home; Codex Alimentarius Does the Job On a Global Scale

The Obama administration has created a new deputy food commissioner post in an effort to better curb salmonella and E. coli contamination following a rash of outbreaks in the last year, including the peanut product recall, the largest in U.S. history. An improved tracing system for identifying the o ... More >>

Clip Job: Mexican Food in the Village in '63?

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 11, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 38Tortilla Flat, Mexican Food130 Seventh Ave. South-Sheridan Square, 224 Thompson StreetMenuSoup (cup) .25Tacos, beef or chicken .35, Mexican sausage .40Two Tostados and Beans (chicken or beef) .90Chicken & Rice ... More >>

Keeping It Kosher--Wine Recommendations for Passover Meal

It's that time of year again, when everyone likes to round up the best kosher wines to pair with traditional Seder fare. The Feed lists several Israeli Cabernet Sauvignons, including one from Bazelet Hagolan in the Golan Heights. Tasting Table offers up a couple less conventional options, such as ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Here are some of our favorite posts from the week that was. See you on Monday. Sietsema wisdom: Carbs are essential to life and happiness The Early Word on Sunset Park's Casa Vieja In Chile: poutine's fatter, sluttier cousin Gobbling sausage, drinking Pinot Noir and snuggling at Cafe Select Aw ... More >>

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B in Spanish?

Spotted in Valparaiso, Chile: chorrillana at local favorite greasy spoon J Cruz. This mess of fries, chunks of steak, onions and melting cheese is like Quebec poutine's fatter, sexier and sluttier cousin. Not for the prudish nor the faint of heart.

Oil Change

Getting bored with the ol' EVOO? Lately, we've been sauteeing, pan searing and drizzling with avocado oil instead. It's the vegetable oil with the highest smoke point - around 520 degrees F - so you can turn on the heat without getting smoked out of the kitchen. Because it's made of avocados, it bo ... More >>

Flash in the Pan: Three Chile Beans

These beans qualify as a Flash in the Pan if you only count active time--the soaking of the beans and the cooking of the dish take much longer. But sometimes you just want something comforting and slow-cooked, and the actual work involved here is next to nothing. I used scarlet runner beans, but you ... More >>

Neil Mandt's Last Stop for Paul

Who Needs a $500 Blender?

DRAMATICO

Not lost in translation

Salvador Allende

Relatively Foreign Affairs

Theater from abroad: different from ours, but just as confused about what comes next

Forking Paths

Labyrinths: Borges haunts the pages of new books from three Latin American maestros

'Land of the Blind'

Dispatches From War-Torn Countries Abound at Nonfiction Fest

The Grateful Dead

Fuguet's Memory Palace has a Gabriel García Marquee

Conflicts of Interest

Regarding the Pain of Others

Arms-Twisting

Security Council Countries Threatened With Loss of U.S. Aid

Dinky's I.N.S. Techno-cality

You've Got a Fiend

Kissinger of Death

Pinochet Noir

Abalone, No Baloney

Human Rights 'Miracle'

Detention of former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet could signal a Latin American Nuremberg

Memory Plays