MetaFilter posts tagged with NewYork and food

Someone's Mama Made This

netbros — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:38:32 -0800

In Mamas Kitchen was born in the experience of living in New York where a bodega exists within blocks of a Jewish deli which is around the corner from an Italian salumeria which shares space with Chinatown which abuts Soho's gourmet stores. While this speaks of the legendary variety available in New York, it also tells of similarity, for in every bodega, every salumeria is someone shopping for the food that sustains physical life with a recipe that nourishes our hearts.

“Intestines of what?”

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:14:27 -0800

David Fishman, 12-year-old food critic, takes himself out to dinner.

Pocketful of dough

nthdegx — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:05:36 -0800

Pocketful of dough - an article on where the art of, er, tipping up front can get you. Originally printed in a year 2000 edition of Gourmet. Via Juicy Tidbits.

I don't care if you cry and cut, but you better cry and cut.

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:18:16 -0800

The Near-Fame Experience: A fascinating interview with former contestants of Bravo reality television shows Project Runway and Top Chef, presenting the fickle nature of fame and how it can come at significant professional and personal cost, if at all.

"Take the gun. Leave the cannoli."

bardic — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:13:24 -0800

Famous Fat Dave is an NYC cabbie. Try his Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tour on the Wheels of Steel (myspace, embedded theme song). (via)

Pizza Recipe

rxrfrx — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:12:59 -0800

How to make pizza. Jeff Varasano has finished his recipe, and his page now includes everything you need to know about making a real pizza.

Veganism is for life - and for lifers!

dejah420 — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:07:43 -0800

Those crazy PETA kids, well, now they've gone and done it. They've admitted that being a vegan is punishment, by sending a letter to the NY Prison Commissioner telling him that "Feeding inmates exclusively vegan food sends a message to inmates and the public that our society isn't molly-coddling them..." Funny, funny PETA people, hoisted by their own celery stick, as it were. I'm guessing that being that anemic makes them a little short on irony.

Menu History

languagehat — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:02:14 -0800

In the long stretch of culinary history, the creation of the menu was a notable development. In the U.S., New York is the restaurant capital, and the New York Public Library has an enormous collection of menus, many of which they are currently displaying in a third-floor gallery. If you're in NYC (or will be visiting this winter) and are interested in such things, don't miss it; it's showing until March 1.