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Lunch for One: Murray's Cheese

Murray's looks money - Yelp reviews are ridic. I should try to get these guys on board for sure. Can't believe I missed this place; used to walk down thats street to the dorm my GF lived in twice a week.

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I feel like I just stumbled onto bluemountain.com for a second :-P

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From Serious Eats: New York

Lunch for One: Murray's Cheese

Murray's looks money - Yelp reviews are ridic. I should try to get these guys on board for sure. Can't believe I missed this place; used to walk down thats street to the dorm my GF lived in twice a week.

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Video: A Candy Affair

I feel like I just stumbled onto bluemountain.com for a second :-P

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Video: 'Naturally Risen' Redux

I can see how'd we'd dig that in SF. If I could get a few figs on that, that's be great.

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Street Food Profiles: Nom Nom Truck in Los Angeles, California

I love these truck profiles! You guys gotta do the Fojol truck down in DC. They are some pretty chilled out brothers.

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Street Food Profiles: Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwiches in Los Angeles, California

I thought the Fojol Brothers truck was the coolest before I saw this one - now I am torn. They both have their merits. One is rimmed out and the other one has painted pink rims . . . one is a 2000 model mail truck and one is a 50's delivery truck . . . tough choices

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From Serious Eats: New York

Lady M Cake Boutique Cheesecake: The Last Cut Is The Deepest

Terrible. Not as much of a dis as my experience at Café Creme in Bath, ME. The owner was having problems with her free wifi and I found out it was the fact that she had no DSL filter on her phone. Every time she picked up the phone, the DSL blipped, and for ten minutes and the customers went without internet. Customers had complained about this for two years. As I was online, I said that she could call her internet guy using my cell phone, instead, she picked up the phone forced all the customers off the internet. Guess that has little to do with generosity and more to do with customer service, but I digress.

From Serious Eats: New York

This Weekend in 'New York Times' Food News

If you're only going to read one of these, The Reichl piece is excellent.

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All About Curry

I just had a curry soy latte in DC at Peregrine Espresso on Capitol Hill. It was so intriguing that I just HAD to have it.

It was heaven.

I said that I wanted cream instead of soy, but they told me no, the soy sets off the curry flavor. They knew what they were talking about

From Serious Eats: New York

Is Locavorism For Rich Folks Only?

Farm shares are reasonable. The stuff is more expensive, but it doesn't approach whole foods prices.

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The Best 15-Ingredient Waffle Recipe

Now all that there's left to do is throw in some fried chicken to round out the dish:

http://wanderingfoodie.com/2009/300-am-the-hen-house/

Is it too early for that? Anyone else totally dig wings and waffles?

From Serious Eats: New York

A Full Side of Beef with Master Butcher Rudi Weid

This sounds like an amazing class. I went to this food and wine festival this weekend where someone cooked some shitakes and risotto and just had no energy at all. I can't cook worth a damn, but I can teach, and I would like to think I can entertain, but getting all three together at once - there's a reason why these celebrity chefs are selling tours out these days.

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U.S. Regional Hot Dog Styles T-Shirt

Yeah, the shirt is related to food, but what did the guy use to do his research on this one? He must have went to google image search and hit "I'm feeling lucky. DC is wrong. Do NYC metroers really have that diverse a hot dog palate that they need three times the representation?

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Video: The Fiji Meat Man

If we got this guy a webcam, he could revolutionize youtube. I am totally starting a collection for him at my website.

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Una Pizza Napoletana to Reopen in San Francisco

Never had west coast pizza, but I am assuming this is going to be completely different?

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Meet Your Farmers: Jen Small and Mike Yezzi, Flying Pigs Farm in New York

Man, if you can afford and have access to a farm share, you'd be stupid not to get one. A friend of mine just offered me a 70 lb doe for a $65 butchering fee. Easy decision there.

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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

I did a bacon ice cream a week ago and it came out very well. I think the caramelization on the bacon was about the thickness of a tootsie pop, though, so that might have been why it got such good reviews.

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Dumbest Allergy Warning Ever

And in the Bird's Eye green beans and almond slivers, the almonds are in a bag stamped "WARNING: Contains Almonds." At least they don't give you a 50/50 shot like the "May Contain . . ." deal.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

Speaking of apple pies, I made one this Sunday for dessert. It was really good. Of all the frozen pies I've tried, Marie Callender's are the best. I love the apple crumb pie. In a pinch, I served it for dessert one night with some vanilla ice cream and my guests thought I had baked it. I had to confess it was frozen, but they all loved it. Marie's frozen pot pies (chicken with broccoli & mushroom sauce - my personal favorite) and dinners are also very good. I agree with wunami that they attempt to make their frozen products as close to their original recipes as possible.

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The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs

@bgruber

Thanks to SeriousEats convenient comment subscriptions, I get comments forwarded to my inbox, so yep. Still reading them.

As for the answer... em... because Cook's Illustrated readers like their salmon more well-done than I do?

shh... don't tell Chris!

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The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs

Kenji, if you're still reading the comments on this...

"This is very similar to the gunk that seeps out of the surface of overcooked salmon."

When you did the poached/steamed salmon on ATK, you had white gunk, but made a point to say that it didn't mean the salmon was overcooked. Why the discrepancy? Was that a special case because of the cooking method?

Also, thanks for this and all of your articles on here. They've been great.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

Delicious Orchards pies have always been very good, but not exactly convienient to NYC. One of the best pies in NYC is without a doubt the ones from The Little Pie Company of NYC. They've gone up in price quite a bit in the last two years, and their satelite store in Grand Central is no more, but that shouldn't dissuade you from braving mid-town. (Their sour cherry is to die for!)

There are some other excellent pies as well, such as the one's from Two Little Red Hens on the UES in the 80's, and the Lexington Candy Shop nearby also has a very good ones, but their's has to be ordered ahead of time as they come from a bakery in Southampton. Of course one can always go to Payard for a Tarte Tatain...$$$

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

We love Marie Callender's pies as well as the ones from Sam's club/Walmart. Surprisingly large and hearty is the pie they have and I'm not sure if it's Sam's or Great Value, since our Walmart only had it for a short time. It was great!

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

I love those microwavable chicken pot pies that come in the paper pie pan. I mean...they aren't the most terrific chicken pot pies by a long shot, but in college when my dorm had one kitchen and I had a microwave in my room, it was pretty good for a random snack. Ah nostalgia.

I've heard Marie Callendar's generally tries very hard to get their frozen stuff to be close as possible to the stuff made in their restaurants. So I'm not surprised they beat out the other "classics" but perhaps a little surprised about the other pies (but not so much after your descriptions).

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

ahhh ok, the paper pie pan threw me off for a second.

but still.. gross.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

@downhillguru: Not microwaved. It's actually baked for 45ish minutes in the oven just like the rest of them, but it might as well be zapped in the microwave, since either way it tastes like a dead pie.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

love the doodles! LOVE them! the pies, eh. but the doodles...! awesome.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

EVERYTHING Marie Callender's makes is delicious! I love most of her frozen entrees. Haven't tried the pie yet but I'm not surprised...her frozen foods are some of the best out there!

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

is that Amy's pie...
....microwaved?

*shudder...

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

I had not bought a frozen pie in years, and the last time I did it seems like the Mrs. Smith's brand was considered to be pretty good. Well, I bought one last week (apple) and it was TERRIBLE! Worst pie I have ever tasted. In fact, we threw it out it was that bad. As the taste-testers above said, the crust was gummy (it really is taste-less, like cardboard). Also, the filling tastes really artificial. So . . . I'll try the MC brand next time. Although for a quick-to-make pie, those refrigerated Pillsbury piecrusts are the best of their type. Okay, okay, I know it's not as good as homemade, but it's better than any of the other pre-made crusts. And it really doesnt take long to mix up some fruit with a bit of tapioca and throw it in to bake. But it's good to know you can have something in the freezer that won't gag people, just in case.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

I'd love to see the best bakery pies in the tri-state area: may I suggest Delicious Orchards in NJ, to start?

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

@Erin Zimmer - the Paula Deen pie is an exclusive at WalMart. Food Network Humor has a great mashup of public reaction to said pie. I haven't seen/tried it, but I understood it to be a bakery item, not frozen.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

That right there is the greatest piece of manatee cartoonage I have ever seen!

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

@erin zimmer: only wal-mart carries paula deen pies. no joke.

From Serious Eats: New York

Lady M Cake Boutique Cheesecake: The Last Cut Is The Deepest

Perhaps it would have been okay if you had just asked her not to slice it. Then done it yourself.

That is really bizarre. I suppose they eat the extra slivers themselves. I can't imagine what else they might do. Maybe collect enough slivers to start making full slices? Yeah right.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

@katieelby: Paula Deen has a frozen apple pie?! Where would one hypothetically buy such a thing?

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

Chef Pierre brand Apple Cranberry pie is the most glorious. test it!

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

My dad absolutely loves apple pie, especially my mom's homemade version, but it has been hard for her to make it due to health issues. Dad must have tried just about every frozen pie he could get his hands on, and Marie Callenders won, hands-down. Before he discovered M.C., it was Mrs. Smith's - which is a big "meh" in my book (too gummy and lifeless).

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

I've heard horrifying things about Paula Dean's frozen apple pie. Like it not being even remotely fully cooked after following package instructions. Yuck.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

@sally599: The cinnamon level in the Vermont Mystic wasn't too out of control. More than anything else though, it was lemony.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

@feep: agreed on the fried versus baked McDonalds apple pie. For reference, Popeye's Chicken also fries their apple pie.

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Taste Test: Frozen Apple Pies

Well, since there's a Marie Callendar's just down the street from me, I'll be able to avoid frozen apple pie-induced ick. Regardless, thanks for the showdown, Serious Eaters! How about pumpkin pie next?

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Website: http://wanderingfoodie.com

Location: Everywhere, Planet Earth

About: I love food and I document it daily.

Favorite foods: Pizza, Fried Chicken, Steak, Lobster, Bacon, Artichokes, Beer

Last bite on earth: Seared Foie Gras