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Family legend has it that my grandmother, Fannie Chapkowitz Binnenbaum, survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. She is said to have jumped into a fireman’s net and walked home where her mother, unaware of the tragedy, brusquely ordered her back to work.
Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn is offering four free cooking lessons on how to prepare historic American foods. So put on that hoop skirt and mosey on over to whip up some victuals that our forefathers and foremothers might have consumed.
New Yorkers love their sandwiches. There are fans of pastrami on rye. There’s the ban minh crowd. Subs bursting with cold cuts have their partisans, too.
The death of Sheila Lukins, the cookbook author and one-time Upper West Side gourmet food shop owner last week, prompted an outpouring of memories about foodways in the 1980s. Kim Severson of the Times wrote a charming essay in this Sunday’s paper about how Lukins’ chicken Marbella was a dinner party staple of that decade. [...]
I scream, you scream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, who doesn’t love ice cream? In fact, I love it so much, I have a book coming out next year on the history of ice cream around the world.
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