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In the process of renovating one of our bathrooms, the contractor found some moldering newspaper behind the tile wall, dating from Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1936. Yellow and crumbling, this page from the New York Star, featured the following food story: “Tony Easts ‘Em Shell and All.’ The story revealed that recent Italian immigrant,Anthony Laforenza, a [...]
It came as an early Christmas present: last week, we learned that breast cancer rates have fallen sharply in the last several years. Why? Well, because American women are ingesting fewer post-menopausal concoctions in the form of hormone replacement therapy or HRT. These combos of estrogen and progestin were supposedly designed to stave off wrinkles, [...]
I stopped by our butcher today, Oppenheimer’s on the Upper West Side, to pick up a brisket for Hanukkah dinner. I love Anthony the butcher. After extolling the virtues of the nice piece of beef he had splayed across the top of the counter, he exclaimed, “it’s like buttah!” We’ll see when I cook it [...]
A wonderful organization, the Southern Foodways Alliance, has been working to collect funds to restore the Scotch House, a New Orleans restaurant. Willie Mae Seaton, the acclaimed chef, turns out fried chicken and other New Orleans delicacies for appreciative locals and discerning visitors.
We were in Boca last week, where NY Jews go to die and where the best food is at the country clubs strewn around the golf-course pocked landscape. According to my father, the country clubs, most of which are built as part of over-age-55 gated communities, are down on their luck. The old golfers are [...]
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