by Bryan | Jan 21, 2010 | Food, Lost New York
Whenever I throw caution — and my bank account balance — to the wind and order another round of oysters, I think about this, one of my favorite paragraphs in all of Joseph Mitchell. He’s describing a semi-fictional character, 93-yrs-old, who hangs...
by Bryan | Apr 28, 2009 | Film, Food
Friends of mine know how much I detest Sex and the City and the loathsome version of New York it celebrates. Among its more repulsive effects: the proliferation of downtown cupcake shops with long lines of midwestern ladies stretching from the Sex and the City tour...
by Cyrus | Apr 24, 2009 | Food, Odds and Ends
Gotham: a dark and complex Manhattan. Ingredients: Maker’s Mark bourbon, vermouth, kahlua.Source: The Redhead, 349 E. 13th Street New York, New York 10003, http://www.theredheadnyc.com.The Gotham is one of a number of interesting drinks on the menu at The...
by Bryan | Mar 14, 2009 | Food, History
Although it kicked off last fall, I’ve only recently become aware of the Tenement Museum’s blog, which, like the museum itself, promises to be a great resource for New York history — especially as it relates to immigrants and the LES (the blog seems...
by Bryan | Dec 26, 2008 | Food
I’m setting about making a white bean and ham soup, with leftovers from yesterday’s Christmas dinner.This year’s ham came, I’m afraid to confess, from Whole Foods on the Bowery, a store with which I have an increasingly conflicted relationship...
by Bryan | Nov 30, 2008 | Food, History
Several years ago at a friend’s house in DC, we kicked off an annual habit of martinis and oysters before the big Thanksgiving meal. He and I shucked them ourselves — my first time to wield an oyster knife — and in spite of the fact that said friend...
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