The Sound of Manhattan In Spring: Ah, NYC in the Spring. Lobby doors are open and the gentle sound of doormen follow you down the street. Just head a lobby full of guys slavering over flier for horrifying new KFC sandwich – the Double Down – that uses fried chicken in place of bread. Seriously, [...]

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A quick link round up because I am powering through my “Get Out of Town for Labor Day Weekend” To Do List Are you reading the Answers About the History of the Bagel? If not why not? First Set of Q&A | Second Set of Q&A – third set to come. I saw Julie and [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the finalists for this year’s Vendy Awards have been announced and as a proud New Yorker, I feel the need to check them out personally.  What’s that? No, not Wendy’s. I said the Vendys. You must have heard of it – it’s been going on for years (well four – but that’s [...]

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As is sometimes happily the case, I have come across something that fits nicely into both sides of my blogging world – food and NYC. Grub Street has gone national! Whooo-hooooo. And yet, my joy is dimmed slightly by the fact that their recently published Burger Register (New York’s 82 Most Notable Burgers) fails to [...]

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What is on the menu for the Obama inaugural luncheon in Washington next week? Well, first of all you should know that they meal has a theme: Abraham Lincoln and ‘The New Birth of Freedom.’ Really? OK –  if historians tell me that Lincoln liked seafood I’ll take their word for it but he might [...]

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