Diary of a Distiller: Chapter 17 - Noshing on the Big Apple

by Jonathan M. Forester, Posted Sep 12th 2008 @ 11:04AM

The past week has been more focused on my career as a Food / Spirits writer, than on the distillery. I am in NY City covering several events which I will post about in the next week or so. One is a bacon tasting, hosted by my friend Josh Ozersky, of Grub Street. Another is a tour of a underground Chinese food malls in Flushing Queens. I found out about these food malls, which remind me of ones I ate at in my travels in China a few years ago. The NY Times and other sources have covered them a bit in the past few months, but I'll talk about two of my favorite stands. One has a fantastic "Lamb Burger" and "Cold Skin" which isn't. The other has a fabulous lamb soup with hand pulled noodles six feet long.

Also this week I had to connect with my friends in the cocktail business. I have been to tiki bars, rooftop bars, bars with hidden entrances, bars in train stations, ones with unpublished addresses, floating spirits events, etc. I'll tell you more about some of these later as well.

So everyone have a great weekend. I'll be driving five hundred miles back home to represent Winterport Winery at the Mid-Coast Food and Wine Festival in Maine.

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