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I touched the faceted glass, cool, but not cold. A floral-citrus aroma rose up, and as I took my first sip I marveled at how soft and delicate the carbonation was, the bubbles giving the flavors lift and energy without aggression.

This was beer the really old-fashioned way. Today most draft beers are injected with carbon dioxide, filtered and often pasteurized, stored in pressurized kegs and served through gas-powered taps.

But the beer I was served was unpasteurized and unfiltered. Like the earliest bubbly brews, it was naturally carbonated, or conditioned, in its cask by yeast transforming sugar into alcohol with a side of fizzy carbon dioxide trapped in the cask. And it was served by muscle power pumping the ale up from its cask into the mug.
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- bill 10-25-2007 3:00 am [link] [add a comment]

Shorty's .32 - 199 Prince St. at Sullivan. Super thumbs up. Best burger in New York. Amazing short ribs. Definitely worth a look. Dinner only. No reservations.

Shorty came up with Wiley through the Jean-Georges empire, but now has gone in something of the opposite direction doing absolutely perfect comfort food at his new 32 seat place. New York Mag, Eater, Andrea Strong.
- jim 10-21-2007 6:51 pm [link] [8 comments]

It’s a classic Abe story — there are so many classic Abe stories — set at one of those panel discussions that crop up periodically about the death of delis, which seem to have been dying as long as the theater. Abe is Abe Lebewohl, who started the Second Avenue Deli on the Lower East Side in 1954 with 14 seats, bought out his partners and turned it into a beloved New York institution.

He was at that conference of food writers, in the mid-1990s, along with Mark Federman, the owner of Russ & Daughters, which is to “appetizing” what Second Avenue was to deli. Appetizing refers to smoked fish — lox, herring, whitefish — and even though it’s not corned beef or pastrami, it’s still Old World Jewish food loaded with salt, so he fit right in. Federman went first, speaking from copious notes, about how fish is good for you. When it was Lebewohl’s turn, he got up, noteless, and looked at the audience. “What am I gonna tell you?” he said. “My food will kill you.”

- bill 10-21-2007 5:14 pm [link] [add a comment]

10 Things Your Restaurant Won't Tell You


- bill 10-19-2007 11:16 pm [link] [1 comment]

what every kid wants to be for halloween this year.
- dave 10-19-2007 8:52 pm [link] [7 comments]

with the end of times select also comes an additional bonus, they've opened up the archives. i always wanted to link to this previously expired story :

Kentucky Doctors Warn Against a Regional Dish: Squirrels' Brains

- bill 10-19-2007 7:54 pm [link] [add a comment]

dont fear fig beer

( Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, is the author of “The Brewmaster’s Table.”)
- bill 10-19-2007 2:50 pm [link] [add a comment]

this is the last of the old school italian delis in down town jersey city. 2nd street bakery


- bill 10-15-2007 4:33 pm [link] [2 comments]

I thought Folgers tasted like poo until I heard of this
- jimlouis 10-10-2007 10:30 pm [link] [2 comments]

Score one more for the flexitarians:

"A person following a low-fat vegetarian diet, for example, will need less than half (0.44) an acre per person per year to produce their food," said Christian Peters, M.S. '02, Ph.D. '07, a Cornell postdoctoral associate in crop and soil sciences and lead author of the research. "A high-fat diet with a lot of meat, on the other hand, needs 2.11 acres."

"Surprisingly, however, a vegetarian diet is not necessarily the most efficient in terms of land use," said Peters.

The reason is that fruits, vegetables and grains must be grown on high-quality cropland, he explained. Meat and dairy products from ruminant animals are supported by lower quality, but more widely available, land that can support pasture and hay. A large pool of such land is available in New York state because for sustainable use, most farmland requires a crop rotation with such perennial crops as pasture and hay.

- jim 10-10-2007 2:17 am [link] [3 comments]

Like many New Yorkers, or probably like anyone who lives in a small space, I have occasional dreams where I find an extra room in my apartment that I never knew existed. I guess it would be even better if the room was filled with rare old wine. And if it wasn't, you know, a dream.
- jim 10-04-2007 7:18 pm [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]