New York magazine offers a rather thorough guide to where to eat in New York City in 2008....
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Photograph from cybele-la on Flickr New York magazine and a few gum-loving volunteers sacrificed the comfort of their jaws by taste tasting 132 kinds of gum in order to bring you the best of the three major gum categories—bubblegum, fruit, and mint. Before you buy your next pack, check out the results—complete with tasting notes from WD-50's Wylie Dufresne and Alex Stupak....
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New York Magazine "asked four members of the fashion community— two models, an editor, and a show producer—to track their intake during the frenzy" of NYC's Spring Fashion week and the results were compiled into the Fashion Week Food Diaries. Granted, the female model they chose to keep a diary is 21 and American and most of the alarmingly thin models of today are teenagers from the most impoverished parts of Eastern Europe, but it's still pretty telling that she had more to eat in one or two meals than the fashion editor ate in the entirety of her diary-keeping. Something to think about the next time you have a discussion about food, eating disorders, body image and the culpability...
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New York Magazine's just released their Best Of listings for 2007 and as always the eating & drinking section is interesting reading. Some shoo-ins, some surprises, making it this a good but not earth-shatteringly great list of places to revist or try for the first time. Our Adam Kuban's already written about their 2001 burger picks over an A Hamburger Today, but I'm more interested in personally verifying their best places for Sunday Brunch....
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Whether you live in the city or just plan on visiting, there's bound to be something interesting in New York Magazine's brand spankin' new Everything Guide to Chinatown for you. (My favorites of all their features: A Visual Guide to Chinatown's Most Intriguing Ingredients—I do have to question a list that's named that and yet doesn't include chicken feet, which I've always found curious—and The Best Late-Night Spots for Fried Dumplings, Eight-Pound Lobster, or Roast Pork.)...
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New York magazine's five favorite hot chocolates should be a good read even if you don't live in the citysurely your food-loving heart can't helped but be instantly warmed by listings like those of Otto's gianduja calda, "a medium-thick, mouth-coatingly rich blend of milk and hazelnut chocolates, melted with hazelnut-steeped milk". I can almost feel it swirling around my tongue....
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I love the year-end roundups in the food magazines and the food sections of the major daily newspapers. The batch from 2006 was particularly entertaining, informative, and mouthwatering.
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