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  • A Walk to Chinatown (Lunch at Sheng Wang)

    A Walk to Chinatown (Lunch at Sheng Wang)

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    I recently read an interview with my favorite food writer, Calvin Trillin, in which he said that when guests come to town, he walks them from Greenwich Village (where he lives) to Chinatown. Since I live in Greenwich Village, and since Saturday was beautiful and Craig was busy editing, I decided to follow Trillin’s lead…

  • Strange and Exotic Candies from Around The World

    Strange and Exotic Candies from Around The World

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    It all started with the heart-shaped glass bowl. My friend Lisa’s getting married at the end of the month and, earlier this year, when she registered at Crate and Barrel they gave her that heart-shaped glass bowl you see above. On my birthday, in February, she re-gifted it to me. “Adam, I want you to…

  • Excellent Pork Chop House

    Excellent Pork Chop House

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    When going to lunch with a James Beard award winner, it’s best to let them choose the venue. Such was the case when I had lunch with Rachel Wharton last week. I first met Rachel years ago when she profiled me for The Daily News and we ate lunch at S’Agapo in Queens. I thought…

  • My First Pho

    My First Pho

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    Leah, who designed my website, couldn’t believe it when I told her, back when I met her, that I’d never had pho (pronounced: F-uh). “Oh my God,” she said. “When it’s cold, I totally have to take you out for pho.” News flash: it’s cold. And Leah, ever the persistent pho-pusher, reminded me over e-mail…

  • Feeling Grand on Grand Street at Pho Grand

    Feeling Grand on Grand Street at Pho Grand

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    I finally did it. I’ve lived in Park Slope for 10 months now and every time I take the D train into the city I promise myself that one day, when it stops on Grand Street, I will get out and eat lunch. You’d thing that a food obsessed person like me would’ve done that…

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