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What's Next for LaFrieda? Decipher This Ad

Just so you know a lot of places selling La Frieda burgers are buying the
pre-made versions La Frieda sells so they will never be as good as a properly hand made burger!!

From Serious Eats: New York

5 Days of Salumeria Biellese

I live down the street and go 3-4 times a week.
This place is amazing across the board,from cold sandwiches,hot food and the hot sandwiches.
1-Roast beef on Monday excellent
2-Roast Pork Thursday never miss it just as good as the Roast beef.
3-Turkey-well its hot turkey its pretty good
Forget the corned beef or the pastrami
get the hot chicken cutlet parm very different from what you get from the pizza places very very good!!!

From Serious Eats: New York

First Look at Red Rooster in Harlem

This is Soul food??
Gravlax??
Steak frites?
Duck Liver Pudding??
$28 entrees?
This place is all over the place and who in the nabe is going to go here?
Doomed as doomed can be.....

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where can I get the ingredients for authentic chicago style dogs wholesale in NYC for my restaurant??

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From A Hamburger Today

What's Next for LaFrieda? Decipher This Ad

Just so you know a lot of places selling La Frieda burgers are buying the
pre-made versions La Frieda sells so they will never be as good as a properly hand made burger!!

From Serious Eats: New York

5 Days of Salumeria Biellese

I live down the street and go 3-4 times a week.
This place is amazing across the board,from cold sandwiches,hot food and the hot sandwiches.
1-Roast beef on Monday excellent
2-Roast Pork Thursday never miss it just as good as the Roast beef.
3-Turkey-well its hot turkey its pretty good
Forget the corned beef or the pastrami
get the hot chicken cutlet parm very different from what you get from the pizza places very very good!!!

From Serious Eats: New York

First Look at Red Rooster in Harlem

This is Soul food??
Gravlax??
Steak frites?
Duck Liver Pudding??
$28 entrees?
This place is all over the place and who in the nabe is going to go here?
Doomed as doomed can be.....

From Serious Eats: New York

What's Your Favorite Sandwich Shop In New York?

salumeria biellese
on 29th & 8th this place makes all its own meats and sausages and is incredible!!!

From Serious Eats: New York

Equipment Shopping: N.Y. Cake & Baking Distributor

CRAZY EXPENSIVE FOR EVERYTHING.
The owners/staff are the most ill informed lazy & rude.Ask a ?? here's the answer to just about everything-blank stare & "I don't know"
I use it in emergencies only.
There are plenty of site online
Save your time and money.

From Talk

Where can I find the best bowl of mussels in New York?

Well don't go to Flex Mussels
They are crazy expensive as they sell them by the LBS per order.
Something like $18.00 the last time I was there (and only!)
They were okay and there aren't a hell of a lot of mussels in a LBS.

From Serious Eats

Häagen-Dazs vs. Ben & Jerry's: Which Are You Down With?

Its easy to decide.
Try a pint of chocolate from each side one day
vanilla the next.
HD is without a doubt the better and IMHO one of the best examples of a mass produced food that is still super high quality.That said
I am still a sucker for B&J's chocolate fudge brownie

From Serious Eats

Is Georgia Barbecue Steamed?

There isnt such a thing as steamed bbq.I think it is something he came up with for some unknown reason or read it in Good Housekeeping magazine
where they have a plethora of such "tips" to make your ribs tender when
you grill in the backyard.
I am sure he will be wiped off the map shortly........

From Talk

If you could only have one knife...

f dick offset serrated bread/utility 7 inch with the divet handle not the molded one.
I use this 99% of the time for everything.
Every chef that works for me usually gets one within a week because they are so handy and cheap.
Around $30 online

From Talk

Breast milk cheese?

Well it's gotta taste better than fried human placenta with bacon & onions.
There is actually a cookbook that was printed in England that included this recipe.
It is actually alot more common than you might think but still
very disgusting.

From Serious Eats

Is Imitation Always the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

"Until I can get one with just lobster and drawn butter, you all can keep arguing about who makes the best lobster salad"
Well beleive it or not Black pearl makes them that way if you ask
which is what I do.
Thier regular roll is excellent as well which many NYer's wouldnt ike because it is just lobster with the barest hint of mayo and nothing else.
Not even salt or pepper!!!

From Serious Eats

Is Imitation Always the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

Lobster rolls NYC.

NYer's like lobster SALAD rolls.Like the ones at Pearl,Mary's, Ed's etc.
They are Rebecca's idea of what a good lobster roll is and it is most likely adapted directly from the joy of cooking.
It is not a authentic lobster roll like what
David Pulido, owner of Portland Lobster Co. in Maine says,"We've served more than 12,000 lobster rolls last year from May to October." What makes them so great? He uses tail, knuckle and claw meat fresh-picked from Maine lobsters each morning. He adds a drizzle of drawn butter on top and a sheet of romaine lettuce. As for mayo? “This isn’t tuna fish,” says Pulido. “Less than five percent of our customers even think of putting mayo on the lobster roll. We serve it on the side.”
Bun of choice: Any New England–style split-top hot dog roll, toasted with just a touch of butter.
That is from Food & Wine magazine
For more concise info about lobster rolls vs lobster salad rolls like they serve at Pearl read this
http://merecat.org/food/dining/lobster-rolls/connecticut/
By the way,whether you intended it or not Ed your article does appear to be biased and to imply that Mary's is a rip- off of Pearl is wrong since she also helped create it and only Rebecca and Mary will ever know what really went wrong and who knows if it would have succeeded without either one of them being there from the beginning.

From Talk

Kurowycky's closing due to rising rent. Share rage, memories here.

very very sad,
my grandma must be rolling over in her grave.
she shopped there for years and years.

From Talk

Question of the Day: How do you like your hot dog?

In Mexico they wrap'em in bacon and grill them.
Really good just like that!

From Talk

risotto easy stir?

Yes
Mario Battali has shown this a few times on Tv.
The correct way is to get the rice hot and coated with the fat you are using, add the liquid shake it a few times and only stir at the end when you "mount" the risotto with butter and parmesan.
It is runny just they way it is supposed to be.

From Recipes

The Niçoise Salad Debate Continues

I can't believe nobody has mentioned making it with rice.
Yes Rice!!!
I have had it that way many times in France, even in Nice and many of the older retired chefs SWEAR this is the correct way to make it.

From Serious Eats

Slow Low Cooking, And The Poor Man's Sous-Vide

I've been doing this for years.Suck the air out of the bag and you get a tighter seal [you maybe look stupid doing this but].Works great for chicken etc.Even burgers-get the water to 143 and let sit for about a 1/2 hour then sear them in a hot cast iron skillet.They taste awesome.

From Serious Eats

Lobster Shortage Drives Prices Osprey-High

I can tell you as a chef in NYC that serves lobster,forget it.
If you can even find one to sell you would have to charge at least $45 a lb.

From Talk

Lunch spots: Flatiron District

Black Pearl [26th st.]
R.U.B. [23rd st.]
Both are great for lunch

From Talk

Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?

stubb's spicy version us A1 -- no pun intended

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