Archive for May, 2010

#26 Guinea: baked fish, or maybe the baked fish?

After eating about 2500 calories of West African food on a Friday afternoon, I decided that it would be a really good idea to eat more West African food the very next night.  I managed to drag a pair of friends out to Fatima, a Guinean restaurant in Prospect Heights. Before I continue, I have […]

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#25 Cote d’Ivoire: worth the burning sensation… I think

Thus far, I’ve made some effort to maintain balance in the United Nations of Food quest.  Over the past month or two, I’ve had meals from Oceania, North America, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, and a decent cross-section of Western and Eastern Europe. But I’ve pretty much ignored Africa.  My last African food experience was […]

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#24 Russia: very good stomach

I live in Midtown, land of breathtakingly mediocre by-the-pound buffets.  I always knew that I’d someday find myself loading up a little plastic container at a lameass NYC hot bar, but I really didn’t think I’d enjoy it.  Sometimes, you just gotta inhale your crappy hot bar food and get back to work.  That’s the […]

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#0 Scandanavian Fusion: Smorgas Chef = disqualified

I don’t think that anybody could possibly mistake me for a real food critic, so hopefully you’ll forgive me for writing a completely useless and unfair commentary about a restaurant. My law student girlfriend (who, incidentally, is nothing more than a rumor these days—if your friend or lover tries to go to law school, do […]

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#23 Uruguay: beware the breath

Uruguay is probably the world’s greatest country that I don’t really remember going to. Once upon a time, I was a young, broke, dumb, patient lad traveling through South America on a ridiculously small budget. I hitchhiked most of the way from Santiago to Tierra del Fuego, was nearly left for dead on the frozen […]

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