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...