No stranger to ethnic diversity, the kaleidoscopic mecca of Flushing, Queens is home to New York’s Ganesha Temple, one of the oldest houses of Hindu worship in the United States. Visually, the temple is an abrupt shock of ornate construction and concrete walls, imposing itself upon the row houses and driveways of residential Queens. Spiritually, [...]
Vicky’s off this week, but I went to Japan and found something just as awesome!
“Why do you have a hammer?” These are the first words I hear Allison Robicelli speak to her son as he runs through her dining room and behind the juice counter, the instrument of Thor finding itself hooked on motor skills in the hands of a toddler. He answers the question by gleefully knocking a [...]
I’m fascinated by the correlation between geography and how people eat fries.
McDonald’s is the great equalizer, fries-wise, spreading Heinz ketchup and individual packets of barbecue sauce all over the world, but I’ve run into enough fast food fare to know that the buck doesn’t always stop at McDonald’s, and people often save one or two [...]
Yangzhou, one of Shanghai’s oldest neighboring cities, is like the elderly couple around the way who, for as long as you can remember, have gone about their business as if nothing – not the brand spanking new community center with refurbished tennis courts, not the rapscallions living next door who dribble (thump thump) their basketball [...]
Fall has hit New York, cutting through the humidified fog of summer with a much needed breath of fresh air. Just a couple of weeks ago I was scouring the internet for tips on cold soba; in adjustment to the change of seasons I’ve inverted course, browsing Manhattan’s udon menus for a satisfying bowl of [...]
They’re here!
I’ve had my “Potential Lunch Winner” business card since January 2008, but this year’s addition of several new writers The Eaten Path has allowed me to continue turning doodles of food into networking thumbnails. The full collection of cards arrived last week, and I’m so happy with the results that I have to post [...]
The nice thing about food places on the second floor is that they tend to feel like someone’s living room or attic: automatically homey, no matter what craziness is going on in the streets below. While walking through the unending streams of people in the Shinjuku Sanchome area of Tokyo, an orange sign caught my [...]
Something about strip malls is strangely pleasurable to me. I can’t say I’m a friend of urban sprawl – I’ll gladly take any opportunity to put in a bad word for Southern California’s paved-earth landscape – but I can’t deny that I’m one of its hungriest disciples. Most of my best meals have been served [...]
I would like to thank Natalia Melikova for supplying the following photos and in some cases preparing the dishes. If you enjoy these photos and want to see more of Natalia’s work, visit her online portfolio.
Te samie! Russian advertising has taken this phrase to heart – “The very same…” – a commercial guarantee that the [...]
