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In Harlem, the guide explained that black people’s hair was different and that they all went to church in their good clothes, whereas everyone else in the city was too busy to be religious, especially the Jews. Back in midtown, she pointed out two famous “Jewish delicatessens,” the Carnegie and the Stage. “Lots of remarks about Jews and blacks,” Willard observed, “yet we haven’t even mentioned Pearl Harbor.”Sadly, there were no bloodhounds on the scene, so he could not suggest that they wear a Sherlock Holmes hat and smoke a pipe. And now Gothamist must watch Best in Show tonight.

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June 1: Grand Gourmet

Not to be outdone by his colleague, Frank Bruni, Eric Asimov has now joined the blogerati (who's next, Amanda Hesser? Peter Meehan?) with his new blog, The Pour. He welcomes us quite cordially:

Welcome to The Pour. Sit down, fill a glass, have a drink, please. [Why thank you, Eric, don't mind if we do.]

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New York Times food columnist Frank Bruni has joined the ranks of the bloggerati with Diner's Journal. Bruni describes the purpose of the new site, which will replace his weekly column of the same name:

This new blog is an attempt to capture and share more of my notes from the field. To provide, in something closer to real time, a sense of what’s being served in the city’s newest, oldest, most delightful and most frustrating restaurants and of how those restaurants are serving it. To flag trends and, less often and more selectively, flog underachievers. To report moments of real significance and incidents that just happened to be interesting. To keep a journal, and to keep the tone of that journal light, casual, accessible.

Amanda Hesser chronicles the time she spent with the folks at Tía Pol in yesterday's NYT magazine. Although it was interesting to hear the Craig's List story of how the place got started and hear a bit more about the history of the restaurant, we would have been satisfied just to have their recipe for fried chickpeas. Topped with smoked paprika (also a key ingredient in some of the pickled ramps we made with Rick of Rick's Picks), they are absolutely irresistable -- we can't wait to make them at home. Between those and the blistered green peppers, we won't be quite as annoyed if the wait is over an hour the next time we go -- our second option will be grabbing a bottle of Spanish wine, a few key ingredients, and bringing Tía Pol home with us.

Gothamist can't help but notice a Rush & Molloy item about media couple, Amanda Hesser (everyone's favorite NY Times food writer/target) and Tad Friend (New Yorker writer):

What did New York Times food critic Amanda Hesser do when she found out her husband, New Yorker contributor Tad Friend, had slept with four of his female friends before the two writers got together? She "zeroed in on my mattress as the Indian burial ground of my rootless past...She announced that she could no longer sleep on it - too spooky" [wrote Friend in the compilation, Committed.]

Is it just us or is there suddenly a Chipotle sprouting up on every corner? Gothamist was walking home the other night when no less then three blocks away from our apartment we spotted a brand-spanking new Chipotle, its chrome accents glistening through the window. We hadn't seen any warning sign or anything -- one day construction, the next, Chipotle. In the past few months we've seen them creeping along Sixth Avenue, one between 21st and 22nd, and another under construction between 13th and 14th.

Amanda Hesser's bio. Our posts on Hesser.

Belatedly, Gothamist went to check out the new New York outpost of New Orleans's famous restaurant, Jacques-Imo's Cafe. The Columbus Avenue incarnation is dubbed simply Jacques-Imo's, but they say the fried chicken plate is the same, so we went to check it out. N'awlins chef Jacques Leonardi is world-famous for this signature dish -- even Amanda Hesser acknowledged it. Gothamist will eat just about anything that's been breaded and deep-fried, so we had to see what all the fuss was about.