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Do good, cheap Italian restaurants exist?
There is Le Zie on 7th ave around 20th st - Venetian bent and quite excellent and inexpensive. Their spaghetti and meatballs is unparalleled as is their spaghetti bottarga.
On the other side of 20th st at Park, there is Via Emilia with their unbeatable chicken and truffle giant tortellini and a quite good tagliatelle with meat sauce for only about $9.
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Unfortunately my favorite food writers - MFK Fisher and James Beard - are no longer with us. Although they were vastly different they shared three things - an essential sense of wonder at the discovery of food, a voluptuous pleasure in the partaking and finally an integration in their writing of their lives in the food. For me they are captured best in Beard's "Delights and Prejudices" and MFK Fisher's "I was really very hungry" - those works conveyed their essences and the essences of the food they wrote about.
So in terms of my favorite living food writers, I'd have to go with one of the food bloggers since they approach food in much the same manner. I think that Robyn of The Girl Who Ate Everything channels these writers the best. In her travels around the city and now the world I get to experience her discovery and wonder and love of food.