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Meat Magazine Suggests New Uses for Bacon Fat
The new issue of all things meat, all the time magazine Meatpaper has just been published, and it’s called The Pig Issue. Features include a story on an obscure medical treatment for the ailment called furuncular myiasis that uses rendered bacon fat. The treatment is named— what else— Bacon Therapy. This newest Meatpaper is sort of like Prevention magazine, but with pig products instead of cardio tips. There’s also a profile on Tennessee ham...
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Today's Free Sundae Alert for Earth Day
Jerry Greenfield (of Ben & Jerry) and Julius Walls (CEO of Greyston Bakery) are in town doing a campus tour of NYU and Columbia to talk to tomorrow's business leaders about social entrepreneurship. The Greyston Foundation donates all profits to local charities, including community gardens, affordable housing, job training and childcare programs. Which is all terrific! But let's talk about the sundaes: The idealistic duo will be serving free ice cream and brownie sundaes...
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Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup
La Fonda del Sol (Katie Sokoler/Gothamist) This week Frank Bruni at the Times has nice things to say about two new Spanish restaurants: La Fonda del Sol (photos) in the Met Life building, and Chelsea's Txikito (pronounced cheek-ee-toe). Upon the former, Bruni bestows two stars, a crucial break the restaurant and for chef Jay DeChellis, as reviews have been mixed: "Although the menu has weak spots, with a few too many dishes not from...
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New Restaurants on the Radar: Quinto Quarto, Clerkenwell, The Pony Bar, Alfresco Arrivals
Quinto Quarto: This new West Village Italian restaurant opened yesterday with its exposed brick and wood beams reeking of rustic charm, and its name translating to an Italian term for offal. But beneath the calculated Old World ambiance, Quinto Quarto boasts authentic Italian cred; it's run by a trio of Milanese paisans who've had some success with restaurants back home. The wine list is all-Italian, and according to Thrillist, the locally-sourced menu includes such...
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Hot Dog Vendors Squeezed By Bad Economy in Brooklyn
Times are tough even for the lowly hot dog man. Vendors who operate at some of the most expensive locations in Brooklyn are reporting a precipitous drop in earnings, which they blame on the brown-baggers trying to save lunch money during the recession. Timothaos Ayad, who pays $48,000 a year in rent to the city set up his cart outside Brooklyn Supreme Court, says he's suffered a 50% drop in business since August, mainly...
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Cost of Ice Cubes Rising Too, At Least at Morton's Steakhouse
We've gleefully chronicled such gilded age menu items as the $25,000 dessert and the $81 hamburger, but former NY Mag dining critic Gael Greene is reporting what may be the most hubristic example of restaurant chicanery yet. She has it that Morton's The Steakhouse recently tried to charge financial columnist Dan Dorfman $2.50 extra for ordering a cocktail on the rocks. His beverage was served with five of the sublime little frozen delicacies, translating...
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Brooklyn Fare to Open Tomorrow
Brooklyn Fare, a new non-chain Downtown Brooklyn grocery store, will open tomorrow. The man behind the refrigerated counter is Cesar Ramirez, a Bouley/Bar Blanc vet who’ll create and maintain Brooklyn Fare’s line of hot and cold prepared foods. Next month, Brooklyn Fare will also introduce a small restaurant inside the store’s standalone commissary kitchen, located a few doors down on Schermerhorn Street. Its single dining table is actually one seamless, stainless steel table in the...
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Plated: Allen & Delancey’s 'Happy Night' Bar Menu
Click on the images for details on the other dishes, which are each $10 or less....
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Will "Obama Coffee" Become the Next Target of Protests?
Photographs taken at Ray's Candy Store by Billy Parker With all of the hubbub surrounding the controversial naming of Obama Fried Chicken eateries as well as the Obama Chia, we wondered why no one had called Ray's Candy Store on Avenue A for one of its Obama-inspired offers. The East Village institution sells a number of "Obama" products, none more prominently displayed than their Obama Coffee (coffee with a dollop of ice cream). Will...
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Where to Score Ramps This Weekend
Times have certainly changed since the gritty and unsentimental 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park chronicled the downward spiral of Bobby and Helen, two crazy-in-love smack addicts. "Needle Park" is the film’s nom de parc for Sherman Square, which just isn’t the heroin hub it used to be. Though Sherman Square and the adjacent Verdi Square were once filled with anxious dealers, now it’s mostly fluffy dogs in neoprene cardigans. Furthermore, young Al...
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Springtime for Locavores
The case for locally produced and consumed food will once again be discussed next Tuesday at a Museum of the City of New York forum that includes Blue Hill chef/owner Dan Barber and Greenmarket director Michael Hurwitz. Another speaker is Ian Marvy of Red Hook’s Added Value, whose farm will be just one of many volunteer sites comprising tomorrow's massive Earth Day initiative called the Green Apple Festival. The forum, an affordable $12, will...
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Passover's So Over, So Bagels Are Back, Bubby!
Passover ended last night at sundown, so it's party time for observant Jews; that means plenty of pizza, pasta, and bagels, among other yeasty items they've denied themselves for the past eight days, in remembrance of the exodus from Egypt. According to the Times, today's the biggest day of the year for many local bagel makers, some of whom simply close shop during Passover, when leavened products are eschewed by Jews. But the article...
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Fresh Lobsters to Make Red Hook Redder
Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood on the brink of perpetual change, is about to see some lobsters move into the neighborhood. Pardon Me For Asking has the scoop on the soon-to-open Red Hook Lobster Pound, a new business at 284 Van Brunt Street that will deal in retail sales of live Maine lobster at around $10-11 a pound. The new business is even setting up a “lobster line” for folks to call and find...
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Bacon, In the Name of Charity
Pork and bacon, of all things, are decidedly the new engines of charity events: First off, Tom Mylan and Brooklyn Kitchen have decided to auction off 10 upcoming seats at Mylan’s immensely popular pig butchering class to benefit Just Food and the Greenpoint Interfaith Food Team, according to Serious Eats. Secondly, the “Park Slope Pork Off” next month at Loki Lounge will garner the winner $100 and bragging rights; moreover, all proceeds benefit survivors...
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Vegan Bakery Needs No Real Casein to Rock
As if to prove a point that LES vegan bakery Babycakes is both a little bit rock and roll and a little bit frosting, chef/owner Erin McKenna and team Babycakes have released a high-def trailer for their upcoming cookbook, wherein the shop becomes a de facto, Joan Jettified site of a girl power and gluten-free frolic. Badass. The four-year-old spot is not only kosher vegan, but most of its recipes substitute agave for refined...
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