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I love road food and sometimes I overdo it, like this weekend. The result? When I eat hot dogs, plus banana cream pie, plus coconut custard pie, well, I get sick as a… dog. So, this will be a short dispatch. Have to get back to my rice and Gatorade.
I never do seem to be able to get to the New York Times food section until the end of the week. When I do, there’s always something that gets under my skin. Take a report in Florence Fabricant’s column that kids now have their own food market. I’m sorry, but this is over the [...]
“How do you like the borscht, darling?” the waitress at Veselka asked. With a Max Brenner chocolate place on one corner and a Starbucks on the other, Veselka and a few other places are all that’s left of what used to be a sizable Ukrainian stronghold in the East Village.
Yesterday, the New York Times wrote about the pros and cons of schools grading kids on their BMIs (Body Mass Index). As the Times reports, and as I reported in School Library Journal in April , the practice of sending home so-called “obesity” report cards, is spreading. Says the Times:
As everyone knows, DiFara’s is rated the best pizza in New York, some say the universe. So, it was with great anticipation that the hubby and I set out for the place. It’s located on Avenue J in Midwood, an ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn, so yesterday, Saturday, the street was largely deserted.
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