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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

Naturally, the following quotation was printed in a New York Times editorial in the year 1902. Happy pie eating, folks.

"It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as anation and the foudation of our industrial supreacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished."

-Greg

From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

Hi Ed,

One more thing for Gov. Spitzer or yourself...Cheskel's Shwarma King is closed on Saturday, and doesn't serve shwarma on Friday, so make sure to go there on a weekday. Also, the truly inspirational kugels are not usually available until after 5:30 or so, in my experience.

--Greg

From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

Hi Ed,

Elliot Spitzer should hop on the F the train, get off at Church avenue in Brooklyn, and chow down on a chicken shwarma and a slice of salt and pepper noodle kugel at Cheskel's Shwarma King on 13 ave and 37st in Borough Park. I advise that Gov. Spitzer ask for hummus and onions with his shwarma, order it on a baguette or lafa (not pita), and make liberal use of the tangy mango sauce at the counter.

Depending on how hungry Gov. Spitzer is, he should order a slice from one of the crispy, gloriously tall kugel rounds on the counter (either salt and pepper, yerushalmi, or potato). Cheskel's also makes some mean, crispy, oniony, latkes that might also apeal to the Gov.

-Greg

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From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

He tried some humble pie and it didn't sit too well, so now I guess he'll be eating crow for the rest of his life. Maybe he can find it less bitter in any other state.

From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

Mr. Spitzer might want to stop in at Coals Restaurant in the Bronx, near Jacobi & Einstein hospitals for a different healthy grilled pizza or panini. We don't want him eating heavy cheese pizza.

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

I just changed two words tonight, I hope I didn't blow the deadline; my initial post was written on Friday. Good luck to all, and Happy Turkey and Pie Day!

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

EDITORIAL

New York Times, 1902

"It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished."

In response to an Englishman’s suggestion that Americans should reduce their daily pie eating to two days per week.

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

Hah!

1. Rosie's Bakery, Cambridge MA: APPLE PIE.

Because it's THANKSGIVING.

Because it's APPLE PIE.

Because Apple Pie is REALLY GOOD.

Because Rosie's is REALLY GOOD.

Because it's one of my fondest memories of living in Cambridge.

Because it's New England -- how much more Thanksgiving-y can you get?

2. Fred's (wife's) sweet potato pie. Fred sells'em at the Farmer's Market in Union Square. (Or he used to. It's been awhile.) I'm not sure it's even sweet potato, but it's the right flavor, and a great recipe (think BUTTER!) Their stuff is better'n most bakeries care to do.

3. Nesselrode pie. You find it, I'll eat it. (Didn't you go looking for this awhile back?)

It's something I loved as a child. Childhood, family, Thanksgiving, food. For me, this sort of brings it all together, even though it was not something we ever had at Thanksgiving.

3 pies for 3 phases of my life. Thanksgiving to bring past and present together with family, to share.

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

a meal from the oven, one crust or two

to begin – a reverse pie

a soupe veloutée of butternut squash and leeks topped with a parmesan puff pastry crust

to entice – a shift for the palette

cranberry salsa and fresh pea purée in baked wonton shells

to enjoy – an old favorite revised

smoked turkey and Swiss chard layered with crisp phyllo dough, served with sauce chasseur and crème fraîche

to complete – a clean and bright classic

orchard fresh apples, studded with sweet butter and cinnamon, baked in a straight pastry crust topped with sweet whipped cream laced with house-infused vanilla liqueur

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The Last Chance to Win Your Thanksgiving Pies

Pie, pie beautiful pie!

Do you remember the pie song in the movie "Michael"?

I'd have to have raspberry pie with its fruity sweetness and lovely jewel-tones.

And then pecan pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or gelato - the best of two worlds.

Do I have to stop now? Lemon meringue and cherry, of course. Or good friend Don's chocolate brownie eanut butter pie or peach pie....the list goes on.

Oddly, pumpkin pie is not in my top ten unless it's made by my aunt Mary. Alas, only the angels in heaven can enjoy her pie now.

From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

In fact, Spitzer is on record as an anti-NYC-sliceite. During his campaign stumping, he declared Cam's Pizza in Watertown as the state's best pizza. Spitzer to NYC Pizza: Drop Dead [Slice]

From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

He should go to Bailey's Smokehouse in Blauvelt, NY (Rockland County) for some SERIOUS BBQ.

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Bailey's Smokehouse

From Serious Eats: New York

Where Should Eliot Spitzer Eat?

Hi Ed,

One more thing for Gov. Spitzer or yourself...Cheskel's Shwarma King is closed on Saturday, and doesn't serve shwarma on Friday, so make sure to go there on a weekday. Also, the truly inspirational kugels are not usually available until after 5:30 or so, in my experience.

--Greg