Category Archives: Food

General Tso RIP

December 4, 2016 – 9:48 pm

As a young child in the 1950s the most exotic food in portland, Maine was Italian food. Every sunday night my father drove into the city and brought home a pizza and antipasto salad. Otherwise the port city offered a wide range of fish. It wasn’t until our family moved to the South Shore of […]

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Pastrami On Nothing

October 1, 2016 – 5:15 pm

This week the Carnegie Deli’s owner announced the closing of the nearly 80 year-old kosher restaurant. Marian Harper Levine’s family has owned the fabled knoshetria since 1971, but a battle with ConEd over an illegal tap on a gas pipe and the long hours have taken a toll on the 60ish operator. “At this stage […]

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Popcorn In A Hoodie

October 1, 2016 – 1:41 pm

I love popcorn. I hate Bud Lite. despite this conflict I’m impressed by this man’s ingenuity. Popcorn, beer, and looking at the wall. Paradise.

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Yee-Hah Texas

October 1, 2016 – 1:01 pm

In 2010 Texas executed 18 men. Their punishment was ordered by the state for the crimes of murder. The next up on the injection table deserved the ultimate punishment for the heinous murder of a black man in 1998. His crime had been to man to drag his victim behind a Ford pick-up truck to […]

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Mr. Softee Arf Arf

July 5, 2016 – 2:44 pm

This summer at lunch time Mister Softee ice cream truck passed through the industrial park off Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn. I couldn’t recall the last time I had licked at a vanilla cone, yet every time its siren call announced its arrival in the area, I ran outside hoping to catch the truck. Not once […]

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