Archive for February, 2010

#5 Bosnia: *shrug*

I’m just getting warmed up here, but my food experiences have been pretty darned interesting so far.  The Ecuadorian and Liberian places pretty much rocked my little white world; the Liberian food definitely rocked my little white stomach.  I’ve obviously eaten tons of Greek food in my life, but our whole night at Opa Opa! […]

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#4 Greece: Moose Caca! Ewwwwwww…

This is going to be a really, really long story.  You’ve been warned. I have to say that I’m always a little bit embarrassed to walk into a real Greek restaurant in a place like Astoria, Queens.  I’m half-Greek, the grandson of Greek immigrants who owned (surprise!) a Greek diner in Boston.  My father was […]

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#3 Liberia: Palm Butter… ‘Nuff Said.

After the pair of billion-calorie meals I ate earlier in the week, I started to realize that I might just get fat doing this little project.  That worried me a little bit, so I decided to go out for a nice plate of palm butter.  Yes, “palm butter” is a classic Liberian entrée, and I’m […]

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#2 Poland: Um, Did I Look At You Funny?

In a way, I suddenly feel like I’ve cheated myself:  for my first two stops on the United Nations of Food (NYC) tour, I’ve sampled cuisines from countries that I’ve already visited.  Pretty lame, huh? About six years ago, I spent a long weekend visiting an old friend in Krakow, Poland.  Unless you’re Polish, you […]

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#1 Ecuador: Highly Chewable Pig Belly

There is absolutely no reason why I started with Ecuador, other than the fact that my girlfriend had already made lunch plans with an Ecuadorian friend of hers today.  Since I’m lazy, I thought I’d let somebody else (luckily, a real Ecuadorian) do the food-hunting for me.  Our lovely friend Andrea called her father, who […]

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