A couple of years ago, I made my first visit to the great NYC bar, PDT (Please Don’t Tell). While sighing over the menu of phenomenal cocktails, one in particular caught my eye: A Benton’s Old Fashioned: bacon-infused Four Roses bourbon, Deep Mountain Grade B maple syrup, and Angostura Bitters. Hello, lover.
Bacon Must-Haves (and Must-Not-Haves)
The world is filled with crappy bacon products. I know. I own most of them. That’s the problem with loving bacon. Every time a birthday or Christmas or International Bacon Day (Sep. 4) rolls around, you’re inundated with awful bacon-themed gag gifts. I mean “gag” in every sense of the word: bad-joke-stupid and in some cases, so awful they make…
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Cheap Eats: Online Restaurant Couponing Explodes
Social networking is the great equalizer. Grandmas are giving garden advice (via Facebook) to their grandchildren, stay-at-home moms in Hanover, MA are challenging college students in Hong Kong to races on Mario Kart Wii. And when it comes to the serious matter of eating out, mobile apps like Foursquare and sites such as Twitter and Facebook are revolutionizing the way…
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Food App of the Week: Pocket Guides
It can be a humbling experience standing in front of a cheese counter attempting to understand the difference between a Montasio cheese out of Italy and a Montasio Festivo from the U.S (hint: one’s made from goat’s milk and the other from cow). Likewise, selecting a new cocktail at the bar or a roll at your favorite sushi bar. Fortunately,…
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NPR: Politics of Street Food
In the true spirit of NPR (Nothing Perfunctory or Repeated), affiliate station KCRW in Los Angeles is bringing a wide-ranging basket of food topics to the breakfast table on Good Food with Evan Kleiman.
Lüchow’s: America’s Most Famous German Restaurant
If the atmosphere of a restaurant could be described by one word, the word for Lüchow’s would have to be gemütlichkeit. (Definition: good-natured, jolly, agreeable, cheerful, hearty, comfortable, cozy, snug…Germans are big on adjectives). It was New York’s quintessential German restaurant—the aroma of sweet and sour German cooking, the thin wafts of smoke from rare cigars, the hearty laughter of patrons…
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