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What’s worth watching on food-TV this week?

Hear about that movie Romance and Cigarettes that premiered last night? You know, the one directed by John Turturro, starring Chris Walken, James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, Kate Winslet, Mary Louise-Parker, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Elaine Stritch and Amy Sedaris? Well, don’t feel bad if you didn't – that fact that two years since it wrapped the film’s been released all over the world except the town where it was shot speaks volumes about the Hollywood distribution system.

“I don’t eat anything with a face” is the oft-cited dinnertime proclamation of many vegetarians when faced with dumb questions and pointless cross-examination from meat eaters. “Well, do you eat eggs?” the meat eater asks, “Cause an egg eventually has a face.” The vegetarian shakes her head. The meat eater, content with some pseudo-philosophical victory, usually chortles, and proceeds to bury his face in a giant pile of hot dogs topped with bacon and chili cheese. The vegetarian waits patiently for salad. It’s a all-too-common scenario.

think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for?

A prosciutto that plays soccer, a Szechwan pepper who's a karate master, and a chocolate lollipop that bears a striking resemblance to Mr. Hanky. These are but a few of the colorful characters inhabiting the Javits Center during the past few days. It's the 52nd Annual Fancy Food Show, when producers from around the world converge to hawk their goods to buyers. Not everything is gimcrackery though. Some of the next big trends in food can be found here. Here's a rundown of the best and the worst:

The Devil may wear prada and Superman may wear tight red briefs but what's really should get you hot and bothered on a long holiday weekend is Amy Sedaris in prosthetic teeth and high rise pants. Wooh-wee, that's some sexy stuff.

- Rachel Kramer Bussell meets Amy Sedaris and tells her about her cupcake blog!

Easter is almost here, which means that the Easter Bunny is almost here - as well as thoughts, "Hey, maybe I should get a bunny." The ASPCA strongly recommends that people buy chocolate bunnies instead of real live ones, because they don't realize what it makes to care for a rabbit and then end up leaving a bunny at a shelter (if people really think they are capable of owning a bunny, they should read this and consider adopting a rescue bunny). Gothamist wholeheartedly endorses the idea of buying chocolate bunnies - just last night, we found ourselves eating some ridiculously delicious chocolate truffle Easter bunnies from Williams-Sonoma (we got them as a gift and can't find them online, sadly) - and we will get our bunny fix by watching the Brooklyn Bunny webcam and looking at photos tagged "bunny" on Flickr. And if you don't like chocolate, there are always bunny Peeps to go along with Peeps chicks as well as a Pat the Bunny book and plush.

There are some great benefits happening around town tonight, we suggest you hit one, or both, up if you have the time.

Darci Ratliff, Kittenpants

Other celebrities who sometimes do everyday kinds of jobs: Steve Buscemi helps out with firefighters and Amy Sedaris waits tables at Mary's Fish Camp.

Here is IMDB's list of shows and films that filmed in New York (note: many of the TV shows might simply be in a studio in NY).

Gothamist on the Times' look at cupcakes. And NY magazine readers chose Magnolisa as their favorite cupcakes, with Amy Sedaris's cupcakes at Joe in second.

There's an excellent unofficial Amy Sedaris page that links to a Time Out interview with some choice Amy quotes ("I didn't even know it was the Year of the Monkey�I'm just a year-round monkey gal. Monkeys are the best, right?") Season Two of Strangers for Candy is out on DVD. Gothamist previously on Strangers with Candy.

The new season of Monk begins on January 16 on USA; Turturro's episode will air on January 23. Gothamist also saw Turturro and Shalhoub share the stage in the Classic Stage Company's Waiting for Godot; Turturro's son Amedeo had a bit part in it but is better known as the young Richie Tenebaum in The Royal Tenenbaums.

Ben McGrath looks at a beef between Times columnist Paul Krugman and investment consultant/blogger Don Luskin of poorandstupid.com in a New Yorker piece, "Blalking." Luskin met Krugman then blogged, "I have looked evil in the face. I�ve been in the same room with it. I don�t know how else to describe my feelings now except to say that I feel unclean, and I�m having to fight being afraid," leading Krugman to call Luskin "stalker-in-chief." And so on. McGrath details the escalating war between them as well as the blogosphere's introspection about what stalking really is, calling this new web-enabled stalker "blalker." Blalker. Blalker blah blah. Hmm, it makes the point, but it's not as pithy as "psycho blogger." Which Gothamist certainly is to a degree (hello, Jerry Orbach/Will Ferrell/Amy Sedaris/Anthony Bourdain).

A Plexiglass box. A hunger strike. A sort of mock band. Add a DVD release, and you've got a concept for a press conference. Tenacious D announced on Monday their 45 day hunger strike for rock. However, Jack Black told reporters the strike would end early if on the following happened: "The Complete Masterworks" - their new DVD of videos - goes platinum, if "hunger is solved" or if there is peace in Middle East. And the Reuters reports "when the pair was asked the longest duration either had gone without sustenance, [Kyle] Gass replied that one time he had gone eight hours between meals. Black said that once he slept for 12 hours, effectively spending 13 hours in-between meals."

Holy headrush, the Times has a feature on the cupcaking of New York! Reporter Julia Moskin calls the sight people toting cupcakes around, the way one would a hot dog, a sign of a trend that entrenched itself, and covers how NY bakeries are making bank off teeny little cakes. Cupcakes analyzed come from Magnolia, Cupcake Cafe, Buttercup, Amy Sedaris, Polka Dot, William Greenburg, Yura, Kitchenette, Crumbs, and Downtown Atlantic, and who better to analyze them but food critics Eric Asimov and William Grimes (though Grimes admits "A 10 year-old should be able to handle the assignment"). The best cupcakes? Mitchel London, Amy's Bread, and Sage Caterers (pictured above, left to right) won out, but as Gothamist knows, if you eat your cupcakes cake first, then frosting, you're not thinking perfect marriage of cake and frosting, you're thinking "Mmm...sugar and butter..."

Since she's not in a play these days where her baked goods are sold as refreshment, you can try cupcakes made by Amy Sedaris at Joe in Greenwich Village (141 Waverly Place, 212-924-6750). NY Magazine reports that even though Sedaris is admittedly diva-ish when it comes to her baking style, that was no problem for owner Jonathan Rubenstein: �I was like, �I don�t know when I�ll bring them in, never call me at home, I only take cash,� and Jonathan was like, �Great!��

It's NY magazine's SEXY (caps are ours) issue and we were excited to see our favorites, Paul Auster (sexy author), Anthony Bourdain (sexy chef - take that, Rocco!), and Amy Sedaris (sexy comedienne) on the list. The rest - eh; Harrison Ford's mid-life crisis is not sexy.

China's pet ownership is booming due to growth and liberalization; pet ownership had been deemed "too bourgeouis" for the common man, but now bourgeouis is good in China. Posi the Persian cat, seen at the Pet Expo in Shanghai, is going for about US$420, but Gothamist recommends any pet owners to adopt a pet, perhaps from the ASPCA. And did you know that July is "Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month"? As profiled in yesterday's Times real estate section, Amy Sedaris has a pet bunny named Duffy, who has a special cage in the apartment. And, fellow Amy fans, apparently she's going to be waitressing at Mary's Fish Camp this summer.

Gothamist was walking by the American Museum of Natural History and noticed that the Rose Center was lit up. Then we remembered: It was where the screening and premiere party for Sex and the City was taking place.

Finally! Strangers with Candy, the insanely brilliant Comedy Central show starring Amy Sedaris, will be made into a movie. Gothamist loves Amy Sedaris, and is thrilled that she and Strangers co-creators and co-stars Stephen Colbert, who kills us on The Daily Show and Paul Dinello will be writing the script. We pray that David Sedaris can find a role as a Christmas elf or someone who sings the Oscar Meyer song as Ella Fitzgerald.

One of Gothamist's favorite fun, fearless females (tm Cosmopolitan) is Amy Sedaris, featured in Simon Doonan's Observer column today, which in itself is an excerpt of his upcoming book, "Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women." Which is the nice way of saying "crazy and in the public."