July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Turkey via Ft. Greene, Brooklyn: The Country Makes...
LAURA: Let’s talk Turkey. You know a country that shares its name with a delicious game bird is going to deliver on the yum tip. Speaking of delivering, SeamlessWeb hooked us up with a meal that was brought straight to our doorstep from Deniz Restaurant in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. They serve some of our favorite food: the kind that caters to lazy asses. ADAM: We started with a dish of...
February 2011
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November 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
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South Africa via Ft Greene, Brooklyn: The World...
ADAM: The World Cup has put South Africa in the spotlight for everyone who cares about soccer. And Americans too! So in preparation for Sunday’s championship game, we went to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and gorged at Madiba, New York’s most festive purveyor of South African cuisine. (We learned about Madiba at a soccer event hosted by the South African wine, Nederburg. Thanks, Nederburg!) As...
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June 2010
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Ukraine via East Village: There's Meat In Our...
LAURA: As they say in the Ukraine, “[Unpronounceable word]!”, which means “Welcome, please sit down and stuff your face!” And that is exactly what we did at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant. Watch our video to see us chow ‘n chat about borscht, varenyky and studenetz, a pork-filled gelatin that would make even Bill Cosby sing, “J-E-L-L-Oh, hell no!”...
May 2010
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April 2010
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Malaysia via Union Square: The Government Requests...
ADAM: Malaysia wants you to know that its food is awesome. To that end, their government has recently launched a publicity campaign aimed at getting New Yorkers to think of going out for Malaysian just like they would think of going out for Chinese or Indian or Thai or whatever nationality it is they claim to be at P.F. Chang’s. So in a Navigeatin’ first, a country actually offered to take us...
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March 2010
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Rest Stop: Picking up the Hitchhikers
Allow us to take a brief moment to welcome our shiny new readers, who seem to have come by way of Tumblr’s shout-out or our Diane Sawyer interview. So, welcome! We are so tickled that you’re joining us on this gastronomical adventure. Feel free to snoop around: You can learn about our quest, check out our meal map, follow us on Twitter, or become a fan on Facebook. Maybe you just wanna...
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Hungary via UES: Palatschinkes, Paprika and Puns
ADAM: For this post on Hungarian food, I’m just going to cut straight to the Cabbage Strudel. We had it, and it was amazing. In fact, we partially chose our restaurant—Andre’s Cafe in the part of Manhattan’s Upper East Side formerly known as Little Hungary—because of a New York Times article penned by Nora Ephron, in which she chronicles her obsession with Cabbage Strudel and how...
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February 2010
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Brazil via Astoria, Queens: Carnival in our Mouths
ADAM: Previously, our only experience with Brazilian food had been at all-you-can-eat churrascarias, where you gorge on skewers of meat until a cow trundles out of the kitchen to beg for mercy. But while churrascarias have become the most internationally popular form of Brazilian food, they actually only represent a niche segment of the nation’s varied grub. So for our navigeatin’,...
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DETOUR: Papa John's Heart-Shaped Pizza
Let’s consider this a post for Fake Italy. We officially celebrated Valentine’s Day one day early on Saturday, so on Sunday we were (hopefully) the only people in the world to order Papa John’s Heart-Shaped Pizza. As you can see from the picture, our pizza’s heart shapiness left a little something to be desired, but we still fared better than those whose pie arrived even more...
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Finland via West Village: Divine In-tart-vention
LAURA: Reindeer blood pancakes will have to wait until our next gastro-journey to Finland, because we couldn’t find anyplace in New York that would give Rudolph a phlebotomy. So instead we went on the hunt for the Runeberg tart, a pastry named after Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg that’s only available in Finland from the beginning of January to February 5, Runeberg’s...
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Korea via Flushing, Queens: Octopus's Revenge
ADAM: For our Korea experience, we went in search of sannakji (aka “live octopus”), a plate of raw, still-wriggling tentacles. Admittedly, sannakji is something of a Korean novelty food, but how do you say no to seafood so fresh it’s still squirming? Our guide for this quest was competitive eating champion Crazy Legs Conti, who puts weird things into his mouth professionally. He...
January 2010
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Tibet via Queens: Ready to Yak!
LAURA: When I think of Tibet, the first thing that comes to mind is a certain bronzed idol who is spiritually enlightened and is worshiped by millions. That’s right, I think of Richard Gere. So in our journey to find Tibet in the Big Apple, we just had to ask ourselves: “What Would Richard Do?” Turns out, he would haul ass to Jackson Heights and grab a table at the Himalayan...
