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Durians are readily available in the vegetable stands and supermarkets of area Chinatowns, and a walk down Mott Street north of Canal, or Main Street in Flushing, will provide several opportunities to acquire the fruit, which is often used in pastrie...
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I'm pleased to announce that the pizzas at Keste have gotten much better since I reviled them for sloppy baking several months ago, and attributed it to inexperience with their own oven. Wood ovens are like people; it takes a while to get to know the...
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If you're a bartender, you've likely heard of Junior Merino's Liquid Lab. If you haven't scored yourself an invite yet, it's well worth it to try, if only for a chance to glimpse the lab itself. The space, accessed via an Old World-y courtyard in Riv...
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The sands of the New York sandwich landscape have shifted yet again: Cheeky Sandwiches is now serving such New Orleans-style vittles as po' boys, beignets, and Cafe du Monde coffee at 35 Orchard Street.The folks at Gargyle, a boutique across the stre...
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Just in time for the holidays, the Department of Health has gifted the mobile vending community with a big, fat lump of coal. Midtown Lunch has discovered that the DOH's newly repealed and reenacted Article 89 has prohibited the sale of fish...
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Northern Spy Food Co.
511 East 12th Street
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The possessor of a whole beast punch card, which comes in either pig or cow denominations, can stop by Dickson's anytime to redeem a section of the animal. The pig card yields cuts from the shoulder, loin, belly, and ham, with choices within those ca...
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-- the two sides of each piece of reversible fabric represent two seasons: one set has summer and autumn, while the other has spring and winter. The restaurant's decoration, Good says, takes its cues from the travels of Captain Cook: for the summer, ...
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Bar Henry, which opened last month, is serving up a limited number of Tom and Jerry cocktails every night through Valentine's Day. Bar manager Patrick Costigan says that the yuletide tipple "is to cocktail-dom what fondue is to hospitality cuisine. I...
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Earlier in the year, Fork in the Road noted with some surprise that Macbar's mac and cheese tasted "just like carbs, fat, dairy should--which is to say, delicious, and compulsively edible, and heavy." This Saturday, the glorified take-out window is s...
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Perhaps you've heard about the Christmas lights displays in the mainly Italian neighborhood of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, that inspired a PBS documentary, Dyker Lights. But the spectacle has to be seen to be believed--wend your way through 77nd to 85th...
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Film and winemaker Francis Ford Coppola is taking Vinicor to court for ruining 55,000 cases of wine by supplying faulty bottles and leaky screw caps.
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Celebrate the season with beer. Try one of these festive brews: Sam Adams Winte...
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[Via Daily Intel]The new video is a tour de force of repulsiveness that wouldn't be out of place in some of the early works of Peter Jackson or John Waters. It seems designed not only to prevent the consumption of sugary beverages, but the consumptio...
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Winter: Root vegetables as far as the eye can see.
It's 28 degrees, the middle of December. Not exactly prime farming conditions. But Norwich Meadows Farm in upstate New York has no choice but to continue operations.
Farmer Zaid Kurdieh says he...
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If you're looking for a gift for a locavoric oenophile, check out Channing Daughter's Envelope (as in, pushing the...). In our interview, Patrick Watson of the Brooklyn Wine Exchange called this wine "world-class," and said he'd drink it over white B...
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14 must-haves for your holiday spread include Murray's Cheese's artisanal charcuterie and cheese board; Steve's Meat Market's smoked ham; Sahadi's olives, nuts, and dried fruit; and Moishe's Bake Shop's jelly doughnuts, mixed rugelach, babka,...
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Once long ago it was a corner tavern, and a mirrored bar with masses of dark wood remains a fixture in the front room, only now set meals are dispensed across it, and various juices and sodas. When I first went there years ago, Happy End had a giant ...
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according to an interview he gave to Omnivore Atlanta, the Season Six casualty will be moving here to do a guest-chef stint at Solo, the kosher steakhouse in the Sony building in Midtown. Weirdly, this is the same place that Hung Huynh ended up after...
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The sole reason to put oneself in the path of the rapacious hordes of tourists who stampede through Midtown during the holiday season can be found in a brown paper bag and is not a fifth of gin. Roasted chestnuts, typically sold at pretzel carts for ...
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The complaint cites the Organic Foods Production Act, which forbids the misrepresentation of products as organic to consumers, and asks the USDA to conduct a full investigation into Dean's handling of Silk, which the company advertised as organic on ...
