Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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East Village

  • Elvie’s Turo-Turo & Butter Lane

    Elvie’s Turo-Turo & Butter Lane

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    I’m getting a little rusty in my old age. In the early days of the blog, I was the one dragging my friends to obscure hole-in-the-wall joints in the East Village–now I’m perfectly happy to go to Grand Sichuan over and over again. But Mark and Diana have my number, both literally and figuratively. We…

  • Summer Borscht

    Summer Borscht

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    Veselka in the East Village is a New York institution; NYU students stumble in there late at night to sober up. During the day, it’s an eclectic mix of East Village hipsters and older Eastern Europeans. I first went with my graduate class at NYU and stuck to standard diner fare–a burger, a salad, something…