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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

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

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.

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.

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

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]

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