In varying instances of hunger and maturity, I’ve wavered on the issue of deep dish pizza. I’ve never seemed to make up my mind on what makes a good one. When I was 11, Pizza Hut‘s pan pie was valued despite (because of) its orange-slicked handshake the morning after purchase. At age 18, the sweet, [...]
I don’t often play the role of “tourist,” but when Girlfriend and I spent a long weekend in Boston, I tried to put aside the hunt for local gems and regional food history that normally dominates my meals on the road. That’s how I ended up learning about the Penguin salt shake at the New [...]
Location is fundamental to business. Even in a world bombarded by social media business plans, people still get up in the morning and walk down the street. And some people still walk home from the train at two in the morning, wondering if a nightcap at the corner pub is a good idea and wishing [...]
Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this story, Kenny’s Trattoria has closed its doors. Dine in Brooklyn, this season’s restaurant week in the borough of Biggie, is here – but I’m not too excited. It’s not the event itself but the basic practice of “restaurant week” that annoys me. Beyond being mazes of dubious value [...]
This isn’t just a beautiful pizza crust. It’s a beautiful pitza crust. Baked in a standard industrial pizza oven at the front of Bedouin Tent, it’s a warm expression of mixed influences at this Jordanian-owned, pan-Arabic seasoned, New-York cultured restaurant between Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn. Like Moustache Pitza, its cousin in Manhattan, Bedouin Tent [...]
Probably the earliest thing I remember about pizza is my worn out VHS of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Motion Picture”. Whenever my parents ordered a pie, my sister and I would try and time it so that the delivery guy would arrive at our house in sync with the pizza man in the film, [...]
For the next week, I’ll be writing short posts on the meals I enjoyed during a two-week vacation in my native California. Exactly what the hell is “California pizza?” A casual glance at my home state offers glimmers of hope, but only amidst a tasteless slurry of industrial-grade delivery chains, “New York” style pizzerias that [...]
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 our most memorable meals of the previous year. Stephen My [...]
I have a hard time separating immigrants from their food. When my conversation teacher in St. Petersburg announced in September of 2006 that Russian officials were implementing the deportation of Georgians in Moscow, my thoughts turned to Mexico and the inane wall being debated by the U.S. Congress. The comparison wasn’t perfect, but it stuck [...]
As a newly minted resident of Park Slope, I’ve been asked more than a couple times how I plan to enjoy the alleged boredom of my gentrified milieu. Is there really good food in yuppie land? Can I have a good time without being among the hip, young and tasteful? Do I miss the excitement [...]
