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Real Cheap Eats: Winter Warmer

by James Boo February 20, 2013

Striking at the heart of winter, the Real Cheap Eats food writers’ collective is warming up 21 new additions to its $10-or-less digest. Highlights from our selection include a West African sweat potato leaf stew, an Indian breakfast gem, a bargain seafood soon dooboo (courtesy [...]

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Real Cheap Eats Greets the Mayan Apocalypse

by James Boo December 20, 2012

The Real Cheap Eats food writers’ collective is helping New York ring in the end of the world (and the end of the year) with with 22 new additions to its $10-or-less digest. Highlights from our selection include an enormous Yemeni lamb “omelete,” a fried [...]

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Live and Let Dine: Revisiting Chieu Kien Buddhist Temple in the Bronx

by James Boo December 14, 2012

Two years ago, I paid a visit to the Chieu Kien Buddhist Temple for a free vegetarian lunch. This week, I’ve been given a chance by New York’s brightest upstart storytelling publication, Narratively, to return to the temple for a deeper conversation with Thich Thien [...]

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Real Cheap Eats NYC: The Fall Edition

by James Boo October 12, 2011

If you’ve wondering where exactly I’ve been over the past few weeks, the answer isn’t “Chicago” – all of these Chicago meals (the last of which will be on Serious Eats national in the near future) took place at the end of July. For the [...]

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Real Cheap Eats NYC: The Real Deal

by James Boo July 19, 2011

There’s an entire world of restaurants within the borders of New York City. Frankly, I find it hard to give a shit about the newest opening, ambitious concept, or chef’s achievement when virtually the entire world also exists within the borders of New York City. [...]

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2010: The Meals That Were

by James Boo January 11, 2011

We’re already 10 days into Western civilization’s latest year, but I’m still working on the backlog of eats that’s been on my mind since October. To kick things off after my winter break from food blogging, I’m happy to carry on our tradition of recounting [...]

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Bite-Sized Buddhism: The Five-Minute Film

by James Boo December 21, 2010

The holiday rush isn’t the only thing that has kept me from posting my New York column for the past two weeks! Before jumping on a plane to Los Angeles for winter holiday, I completed my entry to the Pei Wei “Blog Asia Challenge”. One [...]

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Bite-Sized Buddhism

by James Boo October 12, 2010

Zach once encouraged me to join him for Sunday mass at an Orthodox church in East Los Angeles, a trip he would make whenever his grandparents were in town. He knew that I had nothing to gain in terms of salvation. He also knew, however, [...]

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Masa en Place

by James Boo May 4, 2010

I am somehow amazed at how eager others are to broadcast where they’re eating. The dead horse lying at the junction of food, place and internet has been beaten to glue in the past few years, but there’s something about the virtual, real-time mapping of [...]

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