Pecorino with peppercorns from the Eastbank Farmer's Market, August.
I didn't keep track, but I must have eaten thousands of dishes in 2005, and tried hundreds of new foods. While I won't admit to how large a percentage "toast with peanut butter" and "breakfast: one cookie, one coffee" were in my personal dietary pie chart, I will offer up some of the unarguable highlights. The following is a photo essay on some things that warmed my stomach oh-so-well in 2005.
Marinated
salmon and onion with citrus and cucumber, Tani's Sushi,
November.
Crisp, melting, sweet, tangy, citrusy, flavorful, refreshing. One of my favorite dishes in the
city.
Food trends aren't sudden and flashy like the styles clothing or iPods; they tend
to ebb and flow; few foods gain universal acceptance, few ever die out entirely. The trends of one year will overlap
with those from the year before. You'll see many of these on the lists of 2004 and 2006, and probably a few on 1952,
2035. There were some undeniably 2005 phenomena, like cold sake and 
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