Tag: Food
If you’re confused about the health code status of those shiny roasted duck carcasses hanging in the windows of your favorite Chinatown joints in Manhattan, so is the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, according to a recent report in Open City. Ten years ago, the DOH deemed the ducks in violation because the […]
Robin Sandusky was munching on her kale salad at the Chelsea outpost of Manhattan chain Guy & Gallard when she noticed something unusual lurking among the leafy greens. At first, she thought it was an errant vegetable. Then: “I turned it over, and I could see its eye,” she says. It was, inexplicably, the severed […]
If you live in NYC, no matter where you are, it’s almost certainly true: your local grocery store, the place where you get your milk, your eggs, your organic produce, is really fucking gross. How do I know? The New York World just published a comprehensive survey of New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets inspection […]
According to a group of researchers at Brigham Young University, viewing a large number of pictures of food might actually make the food taste worse. That means the endless stream of amateur food photography available to you on Instagram might be ruining your appetite. The Salt Lake Tribune explains: Half the participants viewed 60 pictures of sweets […]
Two titans of mobile dessert sales went to war in Midtown yesterday, as a fight between a Yogo frozen yogurt truck driver and a Mr. Softee man ended with a knife being pulled. According to the Daily News, a Yogo truck parked at 50th Street and 6th Avenue at around 7pm, much to the chagrin of the […]
This should be fun: Pixelate, an art-piece-cum-arcade game that’s billed as a “showdown to see who can eat the most food in the correct order” by its creators. Not virtual food, though–real food like bananas, kiwis and strawberries, really ingested by the players. How does it work? Foods have particular electrical resistances, so using a specially designed fork […]
Near the ANIMAL office alone, there are purpleleaf plums, honeylocust, and swamp white oak. Near my apartment, black locust, small-leaved linden, and chokecherry. All of them are edible in some way–honey locusts’ pods can be eaten, as can black locust’s flowers, and the seeds of swamp white oak can be used as a thickening agent. […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Cadaques Grand Bistro 188 Grand St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Extra Fancy 302 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Ramen Misoya 129 Second Ave, East Village, Manhattan Hecho en […]
Ladies who lunch, beware: the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs has issued notices to 17 restaurants around town, ordering them to close their sidewalk dining areas or comply with zoning laws. “Please be advised you have 100 business days from and including May 1 to complete one of the following options,” said the notice, detailing […]
In an effort to produce snacks that are fit for long-distance space travel, NASA awarded a $125,000 to mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor to develop a 3D printer for food. Their first endeavor, naturally, will be pizza. According to the Verge, each “building block” of a particular food will exist as a powdered “ink,” and building […]
