Results tagged “latinamerica”

    

Roadside tacos have become a common Williamsburg fixture, with Endless Summer parked on Bedford, El Diablo behind Union Pool, and the Authentic Mexican taco truck on the southern edge of McCarren Park. Now La Superior gives Mexican road food a stationary kitchen, dishing out teeny tacos high on flavor, homemade salsas, gorditas and flautas—both staples of the street—and much more.

Besides killing Mom ‘n’ Pop stores and displacing low-income residents, the rapid gentrification seen in some New York neighborhoods may be flushing the city’s famous working class dialect down the terlet.

French megachef Daniel Boulud has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit that alleges he discriminated against nonwhite employees at his restaurant Daniel, according to an article in today's Times.

How much thought do you give to the origins of your daily dose of java? Not the origin of the purchase (mega-chain vs. local joint), but the origin of the beans themselves. And not just country of origin, but the labor and trade practices of the growers and workers who got those beans to you, no matter where they end up. Many of us don't think about this, but the owners of Vox Pop, a coffeeshop in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, proudly trumpet the fair trade origins or their coffee varieties, and the customers are rolling in.

THEATER: Self-proclaimed “super-ultra-nerd” Brooke O’Harra has spawned Panic at P.S. 122. Written by Rafael Spregelburd, her production invokes the mood of low-budget horror movies to tell the tale of a mother and her two children as they attempt to recover the key to their safety deposit box - from the hands of the dead! Panic is part of the Buenos Aires in Translation (BAiT) festival, featuring the U.S. premieres of four playwrights from Argentina’s capital, which has become the theatrical “epicenter of Latin America”. The three other plays are also running through Sunday. - John Del Signore

Before the house lights dim, ¡El Conquistador! begins with a breezy prologue by the play’s sole live performer, Thaddeus Phillips, who introduces the audience to the quirky world they are about to visit. His story is set in an upscale condo in Bogota, where apartment dwellers are never issued keys to their buildings. Phillips tells us that for security reasons, metropolitan Columbians are usually at the mercy of their doormen who, in ¡El Conquistador! at least, find work to be a constant distraction from their telenovela TV shows.

Imagine a very special hot dog vendor—one who bakes the bun and forms the sausage to order right before your eyes. This kind of immediacy to your meal is hard to find on the street. But not if you venture to Red Hook Park. On weekends a veritable caravan of Latin food stands sets up beneath a giant tent the length of a city block, and all of the food is cooked right here. Head for the lady making arepas on a makeshift griddle. Choose your filling (pork, cheese, or both), and stand back to watch as she scoops a ball of corn masa dough from one container, massages it into a disk, envelops the savory filling, and slaps it down on the griddle. A couple minutes later, she’ll flip it, when the underside has achieved a lovely brown crust. For $1.50, the arepa is served with a huge garnish of what could be south-of-the-border slaw—shredded cabbage and carrots doused liberally with a mild chile-tomato sauce. The arepas here are worlds apart from those pre-formed patties ubiquitous at street fairs now. These little cakes manage to be both creamy and tender as well as chewy and crispy all in one bite. These arepas, a meal in themselves, express a different style than those of the legendary Arepa Lady, which are more like snacks.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

Via Kottke: AssembleMe put together a nice set of NYC population graphs for the NYC Demographics page on Wikipedia. What impressed us what how dominant Brooklyn has been in population for the last 90 years-- although it looks like Queens is closing in, having passed Manhattan in the late 1960s. Even Staten Island is closing in on Manhattan-- maybe it's the rent prices!

Clicking through the Times online this morning, we spotted this great Flash piece all about Brooklyn demographics. We sort of remember seeing it back in June, but this time we spent some real time looking through it, and learned some interesting facts about our home borough:

The New York Times devotes an astounding number of paragraphs to answering this age old question-- and it comes up with a variety of amusing and varyingly probable answers:

We were all set to write about the 2002 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon this week - to tell you about the rich fruit and the velvet texture of the wine. But then we made a pit stop in Brooklyn last night, Park Slope to be exact, and writing about just one wine didn’t seem like enough. What happened in Brooklyn was the birth of a new tradition for Gothamist. While this tradition is not groundbreaking or some novel idea that took weeks to conceive – ask anyone who was a part of it, and they will tell you how special it was.