It’s World Cup time, which means that pretty much everybody on this little planet of ours has developed a sudden obsession with South Africa. Madiba, Brooklyn’s flagship South African restaurant, has unsurprisingly become the center of much of NYC’s soccer-related hoopla. Of course, we were dumb enough to try to eat there on the first […]
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My recent Bangladeshi meal provided a little glimpse into the future of United Nations of Food. I know that somewhere around 50-80 national cuisines will be “unfindable”–meaning that no restaurant in NYC explicitly claims to serve those particular cuisines. But I’m convinced that many of those cuisines will be hidden somewhere. For example, plenty of […] Read More >> |
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I probably should have developed this habit from the very beginning, but I’ve just started to consistently google the phrase “national dish of (enter country name here)” before heading out to restaurants. In the past, this has led me to some beautiful meals—Burmese mohinga, West African attieke/acheke, and Barbadian cou-cou and flying fish, among other […] Read More >> |
