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Upper West Side: Fat or No Fat? Fairway Regulates Prosciutto Buyers

At Fairway, they take their prosciutto seriously.  So seriously, in fact, that if you dare to ask them to trim the fat–horrors!!–from this Italian delicacy, they’ll refuse to sell it to you. Read more in this Westside Independent story.  And take their poll to see how you stack up against your fellow Upper West Siders [...]

Upper West Side: Natural History Museum Does Pickles Program

October 4 is International Pickle Day. There’s the celebration of all things briney on the Lower East Side, and a week later, the Museum of Natural History is jumping into the barrel with its own pickling presentation:
Global Kitchen: The Magic of Pickling is the museum’s latest installment of its global cuisine series.
If you’re a brine [...]

Halloween Recipe: Candy Corn Cupcakes To Wow Your Trick-or-Treaters

What could be a better Halloween treat than cupcakes crowned with candy corn “teeth?”  Try these goodies from Upper West Side Chef Renee Marton on your young (and grownup!) ghosts and goblins:

Witch’s Teeth Halloween Cupcakes
Makes one dozen cupcakes.
INGREDIENTS
1 28-ounce can pumpkin, drained in a paper liner or towel lined strainer, for one hour
3 eggs
¾ [...]

Upper West Side: Kosher Restaurant May be Headed for Amsterdam Avenue and 92nd Street

The Westside Independent reports that new shops and restaurants—including a 7-Eleven and a possible Kosher eatery—are headed for the the west side of Amsterdam Avenue between 92nd and 93rd Streets, a couple of years after most of the stores on the block were vacated for development:
Retail Sprouting on Site of Failed 92nd Street Development
Retail business [...]

Upper West Side: Grant’s Tomb Night Crawl and Feel Free Central Park Concert

Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?
Well, we all know the answer to that one.
Last night, the National Park Service opened up Grant’s Tomb, at 122th Street and Riverside, for a spooky but enlightening tour of the great Civil War general’s tomb. It’s all part of the Park Service’s week of activities in the run-up to the [...]