Video: Where Rabbit Soup Comes From
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Killed Car Thief REALLY Picked the Wrong Car
Babies In Brooklyn Bars Debate Goes National
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This week Sam Sifton at the Times bestows zero stars on Choptank, the new Chesapeake Bay-themed restaurant in the Village. In Times parlance, zero stars (out a potential four) means "satisfactory," but Sifton is not satisfied, and he really unloads on what he perceives to be the restaurant's affected preppy posturing: "The restaurant evokes the Chesapeake region in the way that dorm rooms at Johns Hopkins do: Duck Head khakis in the dresser and lacrosse sticks leaning against the des..." Peel-and-eat shrimp is served "as neatly stacked as socks from the Gap, a full dozen meaty, slightly overdone fatties wedged into a heavy serving tray. The effect is jarring, as if Mrs. Astor had served you a New York hot dog on silver plate, then nodded ever so pointedly toward your knife and fork." But "seriously, dude: awesome fries." more ›
Food: March 2010 Archives
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This week in miscellaneous eating news: A Fatty Crab tasting party, stinky cheese menus at French restaurants around the city, and today's Texas Independence Day celebration at Hill Country. Yeehaw!
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Ever wonder where the main ingredient in that rabbit soup served up at Marlow & Sons was before it landed in your bowl? The Food Curated folk just visited the farm where Marlow (Sons and Daughters) and Savoy in SoHo get their meat from. The good news is it's a local, sustainable farm (run by John Fazio)—no hormones or antibiotics are used and he clearly cares about his product (if you've seen Food, Inc. you know how important this is); the bad news is 400 cute bunnies die a week! more ›
ARGHH—look at that thing, it's headed straight for our arteries! Lock up your Deal-A-Meal, because this week marks the triumphant return of the Dunkin' Donuts Waffle Breakfast Sandwich (500 calories), a button-busting invention that merges scrambled eggs, sausage and American cheese between two "maple-infused" waffles for just $2.99 (suggested retail price). Dunkin' has brought the sandwich back "by popular demand" for a limited time only, and later this month they'll celebrate St. Patrick's Day by reviving the "Lucky Dozen" donut, "a raised yeast ring with chocolate icing topped with white and yellow sprinkles and green clovers for the suggested retail price of 89 cents." Mmm, raised yeast. Now why can't area McDonald's do the same for the elusive Shamrock Shake?
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Swearing that a drink of raw milk beats a trip to the doctor, a Brooklyn woman has gotten in with an underground network that traffics the unhomogenized, unpasteurized product. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Hannah Springer and her fellow milk smugglers meet at secret "drop-off" points around the city, to collect bottles driven down from farms in Pennsylvania. Like many converts, Springer had her first taste after reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, and now she's addicted. “I no longer have to take thyroid meds, which every doctor said I would be on for the rest of my life,” said the mom, who feeds two glasses of the stuff to her 18-month old son daily. But if its curative properties are what she says, why does the FDA call it "inherently dangerous"? more ›
Grimaldi's Pizza, one of Brooklyn's oldest and most popular pizza destinations, is expanding to Manhattan in a big way. Sometime in mid-April, the newly renovated Limelight Marketplace is expected to open, replacing the famous nightclub with over 60 boutique retailers in the 163-year-old deconsecrated Chelsea church. Grimaldi’s Pizza will fill an approximately 1,200 square foot location off the 6th Avenue entrance, and also sell pies out of a round-the-clock to-go window. It's unclear from the press release if pizza by the slice—not an option at the DUMBO Grimaldi's—will be sold, but this looks like a guaranteed hit either way. more ›
First we moved grocery shopping online, and now it's made the leap to iPhones. Fresh Direct has launched an app (only available to current customers as of now), allowing folks to phone in their shopping lists, so to speak. The Wall Street Journal reports back saying the "selling point lies in its ability to suggest items based on previous buys," highlighting past orders, deal and favorite items. This is all because the man is watching you; CEO Rick Braddock says the company’s database tracks every purchase a customer has ever made, which provides a profile based on ones shopping behavior. Okay, but when do we get to the real Jetsons stuff, like punching our cravings into a machine and having it instantly pop up on the kitchen table?
The long-building wave of food blog hype has at last reached the shore of South 4th Street in Williamsburg, where the new location of southern comfort BBQ restaurant Pies 'N' Thighs finally opened today. You may recall that back in January 2008, the original location in the shadow of the Williamsburg bridge was shut down by the Health Department for such infractions as an improper pork smoker. (Our headline, "Pies 'n' Thighs Goes Tits Up," elicited some "fun" comments.) After more than two years of preparation and speculation, the P&T; team has now opened in their new digs, at the corner of Driggs. more ›
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