About a week ago, an old friend from Pakistan—let’s call him Sid—stopped by NYC for a far-too-brief visit. He’s had a damned interesting life: he grew up under rough conditions in Karachi, which had been turned into a war zone by rival ethnic gangs in the early 1990s. His father died when Sid was in […]
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The food business is notoriously brutal, but Cambodian refugee Jerry Ley has been through a special brand of restaurant hell. After surviving the Khmer Rouge regime, Jerry came to the United States in 1979, and eventually opened a tiny, beloved restaurant called Cambodian Cuisine in Fort Greene in the early 1990s—long before Fort Greene grew […] Read More >> |
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I probably whine about this far too much, but I was just realizing that Amber, love of my life and miner of her own engagement diamond, has accompanied me on exactly six of my first 38 food excursions—seven if you count the time that I brought Chinese dumplings home and slid them under the bedroom […] Read More >> |
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Help me out here: why is it that the Philippines is spelled the way it is, but a person from the Philippines is a Filipino? Why change the “Ph” to an “F”? Why drop the extra “p”? Is somebody from Philadelphia called a Filadelfian? Is a guy from Frankfurt called a Phrankphurter? Then why is […] Read More >> |
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In case you can’t tell from my little food blog, I’ve rarely met a plate of ethnic food I didn’t like. Sure, I can get snarky if I think a particular restaurant is lame, but if you stick a plate of food in front of me, I’ll probably eat it with a smile on my […] Read More >> |
