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What MAC & CHEESE PANCAKES Taste Like
My NYC food bucket list is pretty long and complicated, but there is one item that has always been at the top: the mac & cheese pancakes from Shopsin’s. Last spring I wrote a piece about some of...
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Celebrating America with a Brontosaurus Rib (and Beer)
Fourth of July is my favorite holiday for many reasons. Here is a very condensed list. 1) America 2) Bikinis 3) Patriotic outfits 4) Beer 5) Day drinking 6) Sunshine (Hurricane Arthur please spare us...
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A Wise American Man Once Said, “Let There be Ramen.” And This is What Happened.
A Jewish, white guy from Long Island walks into Tokyo. And opens a Ramen shop. This is what Ivan Orkin, chef & owner of Ivan Ramen did in 2007. And this is what he did again in 2010. And now he’s...
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Experimenting with Overpriced Vegan, Gluten-Free Pizza
As you all know, I produce a weekly YouTube show with my gluten-free friend called Table Manners. If you didn’t know that, now you do. Each week, we find a restaurant that has both outrageous and...
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America’s Next Top Bun (A Definitive Ranking of Jum Mum Buns)
When you think of buns you probably think of bread, a slang word for buttox, or the pretty pork buns that pop up in your Instagram feed. However, the world of buns is much more diverse than that. In...
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Turn Up for Cake
Cakes are important. They are probably the most important part of birthday parties besides friends, family and buying wrinkle cream to cure your early signs of aging. Because cake is such a vital part...
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GAME CHANGER: Snow Cream at Snowdays Shavery
The best discoveries are made when you least expect it. And when I stumbled upon Snowdays Shavery (which actually just opened a few days ago in the east village) I did not expect to spend the next 20...
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Rethinking Schnitzel
When I used to think of schnitzel, I pictured a thin, breaded veal cutlet being handed to me by a German bar maiden. Don’t know why, but that’s just a very stereotypical vision I had of schnitzel....
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7 Foods to Try this Fall at Madison Square Eats
Madison Square Eats is back and bikini season is over (thank god). Now we can all get back to our fattening lives and prep our stomachs for the holiday season. First stop? Madison Square Eats. Here are...
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An Éclectic Lunch at Élan
When new restaurants run by renowned chefs open in Manhattan, it’s usually a big deal – for better or for worse. This kind of “for better or for worse” response is what chef-owner David Watluck is...
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Making Dough with Joe
This post was originally published on Caviar. While all pizza is delicious, New York pizza has developed some sort of Godly reputation in the pizza world. There are tons of pizza parlors all over the...
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