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Food Porn Daily: Whoopie pie and a vanilla cupcake

Posted Mar 29th 2008 8:00AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Dessert, Food Porn

If you are lucky enough to live in one of the five boroughs of New York City, then you are within tasting distance for these delicious-looking treats from Baked in Red Hook, Brooklyn. For the rest of us, at least there's a picture at which to gaze. There's also a blog entry that goes along with this image, all about how painfully difficult (because there's just so much to eat and photograph) it is to be a food blogger. Vanessa, I feel your pain!

Gumbo Tales, Cookbook of the Day

Posted Mar 12th 2008 1:01PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Books, Raves & Reviews, Cookbook of the Day

cover of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

Back at the end of January, I spent five days up in New York City, attending a writing conference and hanging out with my cousins in Brooklyn. One of the high points of the conference was the session I attended that consisted entirely of food writers reading from their work. One of the writers was Sara Roahen, and she read a piece about the Sazerac (a drink made from rye whiskey and bitters) from her about-to-be published book about food and life in New Orleans.

The book, officially titled Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, is now available and it should be winging its way to me even as we speak (thanks to the wonder that is Amazon.com). It contains recipes and stories (and we all know that's just about my favorite thing in the whole world). When I heard Roahen read, by the end of the chapter, I was nearly panting for a Sazerac (and I don't particularly even like whiskey). If that is any indication, I am certain the rest of the book will be as vividly descriptive and tantalizing.

Babies in Bars: Yay or Nay?

Posted Feb 18th 2008 3:30PM by Ellen Slattery
Filed under: Beer, On the Blogs, America, Coffee shops

Park Slope, Brooklyn, has gotten a reputation in the past few years for being, well..a stroller mecca, to put it mildly. The tight-knit community, safe streets, and good schools make it a natural choice for couples looking to raise a family.

The stroller news - moms taking over coffee shops to hold "Mommy and Me" playgroups - seemed to have died down, until a January blog post by Park Slope columnist, blogger, and mom Louise Crawford. The proprietors of Union Hall, a neighborhood bar that features local bands, hung a sign that read, "No one under 21 admitted. Please, no strollers."

The owners cited liability and safety as the reasons for the new rule, saying that the bar's bocce court and open stairwell didn't mix well with kids running around shoeless.

According to Crawford, who was featured on a recent NPR story about the issue, the bartender has since loosened the ban, and now wants to start a late-afternoon group specifically for moms and their babies.

I'd imagine that the bartender had little choice in the matter, though - those Park Slope message boards can be ruthless, and one person is only so strong when they're staring down a half-dozen moms and their Baby Joggers.

The Times article had a quote from a woman who was incredulous at the "cubes, crayons, and candy" at the top of the bar. For the record, a bar I frequent in Philly, Tattooed Mom, serves up toys and Dum-Dum pops alongside PBR and shots of Jim Beam. And while I thoroughly enjoy these nods to childhood, that's all I need...a nod.

What about you? Do you think it's too harsh to ban kids and strollers from a neighborhood bar? Or is it completely legitimate to ban whomever you want from your bar, especially if you're worried about their safety?

A daily view into a stranger's morning meal

Posted Nov 8th 2007 9:24AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Breakfast, Food Porn , On the Blogs, America, Real Kitchens

a plate with toast, fried egg and tomato on it

I've always been fascinated by how other people live their food lives. This means that I really enjoy cooking with friends, love peeking at the shopping cart contents of strangers and always wanted to check out what my co-workers brought to eat for lunch. This slightly odd trait of mine is why I'm loving a recent addition to my RSS reader.

Simply Breakfast is a site that gets updated just about every weekday (and occasionally on the weekend as well) and features a single image in each post. Every day the picture is of what Jen is having for breakfast that morning. In concept it sounds sort of boring, but Jen is an artist who seems to carefully compose her meal before she snaps the shot. The result is something that is inspiring, appealing and addictive. She's got a new book out that gathers a bunch of her breakfast images together and also has an Etsy shop where you can buy prints of her photos.

The meal that will make your children cry

Posted Oct 23rd 2006 11:58AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: East Coast, Restaurants, Food Oddities, Trends, Newspapers, America

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Picture the scene: it's Christmas Day, and you're making holiday dinner for your family. You have your turkey and your stuffing and your apple pie and your egg nog, and the gifts have all been opened and everything is just hunky-dory. Then Aunt Sally comes in with the side dish she made, puts it on the table, announces what it is, and freaks out all the kids.

Reindeer meatballs!

That's what they serve at Northern Delicacies, a takeout restaurant and grocery store in Brooklyn. They also sell fish balls and salty licorice.

My advice? Don't serve them on Christmas Day. Or, if you are going to serve them, do it before Christmas Eve, so the kids won't think you did something to Santa's reindeer after they dropped off the gifts that night.

The Sins of Red Velvet Cake

Posted Jul 17th 2006 3:12PM by Erich Kuersten
Filed under: Dessert, America, Bakeries

When my dear friend Yukari brought my red velvet cake the other afternoon, I thought I must have died and gone to some sort of sugar-baked heaven. I asked her where she discovered this bizarre, deep red, Satanic looking concoction. Apparently it's all over Brooklyn, and she'd found out about it while working in the Buttacup Lounge.

For the unfamiliar, red velvet cake is party punch red and coated in thick white frosting. It's an equally decadent relative of chocolate cake. My own limited run-ins with it haven't yielded particularly chocolatey tasting encounters, but its richness and snowy cream cheese dressing could satisfy any chocolate lover's deepest desire.

A sort of red-velvet-legend attributes this cake to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. A guest ordered a slice and liked it so much that she asked for the recipe. The hotel gave it up and billed her $100. Furious, she spread the recipe around in chain letters.

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The Best Mac and Cheese in All of New York: Dumont

Posted Aug 11th 2005 4:04PM by Karina Longworth
Filed under: Dinner, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Grains, Cheese, The Best ... in All of New York

Every month, Karina Longworth picks a different food and eats her way around New York until she finds the best preparation in the Five Boroughs. This month, her search for New York's best macaroni and cheese will take her from speakeasies to supermarkets. First stop: Dumont.

I'm thinking back to the lardon-studded macaroni and cheese ($9) I had Sunday night at Dumont (432 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211) and I'm torn. As I'm craving the meaty chunks of salty ham, my mouth is simultaneously puckering from the memory of the even saltier islands of Parmesean.

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Food Porn Daily: Whoopie pie and a vanilla cupcake

Gumbo Tales, Cookbook of the Day

Babies in Bars: Yay or Nay?

A daily view into a stranger's morning meal

The meal that will make your children cry

The Sins of Red Velvet Cake

The Best Mac and Cheese in All of New York: Dumont

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