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Burger at The General Greene

When you read enough blogs about hamburgers, you come to find out about the mysterious thing of the outter crust on a hamburger patty. I think my very first hamburger was probably McDonalds or Wendy's and honestly I don't remember. Those things don't have crusts. The Shake Shack burger supposedly develops a nice crust on the outside of the patty but I've mostly encountered inconsistent crustiness (but that's not a diss on SS, still love their burgers). First bite of the burger at The General Greene was a lesson on a hamburger with a solid crust. Unfortunately it was also a lesson on too much crust.
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3 comments. Posted on December 9 2008 at 10:29 am
Fornino and my educated mother

My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas. That was one of the first things I learned after starting third grade. It's a mnemonic device used for learning the nine planets in our solar system, although now pluto is not a planet anymore. Does this mean in the future, educated mothers won't serve nine pizzas but instead will server nachos? What a sad thought. I'm happy to report that even though I've always remembered the mnemonic device, I have no idea what the nine planets are without looking it up. That is really sad. Inversely correlated with the level of my stupidity is the awesomeness of Fornino's pizza. One weekend I found myself in Williamsburg. The weather was especially chilly, and the pizza at Fornino really warmed me up.
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3 comments. Posted on November 12 2008 at 11:55 am
Birch beer haiku and Blue Marble ice cream

My weekend disappeared and it felt so good. This past Friday Gears of War 2 came out and I have been camping at my friends apartment. This is probably what Meth addicts do when they get something new to shoot up. Fortunately the only downside to xbox 360 is sleep deprivation. This week's haiku is about birch beer, which I thought was the same thing as root beer. Wikipedia says no. Well, whatever wikipedia says is the truth. Recently I had some root beer at the Shake Shack on the UWS, and I saw Tina of The Wandering Eater try the root beer at Momofuku Ssam Bar. I just want to drink root beer and play horde all day long. This work thing is getting in the way.
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3 comments. Posted on November 11 2008 at 11:40 am
67 Burger is a good meal

I used to have this thing about finishing everything on my plate. Not sure when it really started but it goes something like this, "Some people can't find enough food to eat and you're gonna throw it away? You prick. Finish him! (btw, only the first 30 seconds of that video is relevant.. ) But that was before I started Food in Mouth and eating like Britney Spears post-pregnancy. So when Pat and I were at 67 Burger, it pained me to walk away from half a basket of sweet potato fries. We had to choose, finish the burger or finish the fries.
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10 comments. Posted on September 16 2008 at 2:02 pm
DiFaras is pizza heaven

It was worth it, and you should go. No, I'm not talking about a Miley Cyrus concert. Although her concerts probably ARE worth it... Di Fara's Pizza in Brooklyn is worth all the hype. I love sports and you hear about hyped athletes all the time. Di Fara's is no Andy Roddick. It's more like Roger Federer. Subtle, understated, and the best. If you do research on the pizza blog Slice, you can see that Di Fara's is ranked up there among the best pizzas in the U.S. High praise for sure, but the pizza backs the claims. If you have a chance to get some of this pizza, do yourself a favor and hurry up.
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15 comments. Posted on September 4 2008 at 3:14 pm
Etons

This might be a signal of what kind of a guy I am, but I love "dollar dumplings". If you frequent Chinatown, you know what's up - five dumplings for a dollar. (Crazy right?) Lately prices have gone up on those things. Places like Dumpling House and Tasty Dumpling have increased the price to four dumplings for a dollar. (Inflation = major fail!). When you are hungry for a snack, nothing is better or cheaper. But the taste is often indistinguishable from one place to another. You have to pay more for robust tasting dumplings and you can find those at Eton's in Carroll Gardens.
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4 comments. Posted on July 29 2008 at 12:26 pm
Red hook ballfields

I hate myself sometimes. More often, I hate other people. For example, Ralph Nader voters in Florida in the year 2000. Those people? I hate you, cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye. A vote in one direction is a non-vote in another; a vote for Nader was a vote against Gore and a vote for Bush, as it turned out. And this past weekend I turned into the Red Hook ball park version of a Nader voter. If you have not been keeping score, New York City officials cracked down on the Red Hook vendors last year and required them to have permits and get actual food trucks with proper sanitation. So the only natural thing for me to do this past weekend was to subvert the rules and buy food from a vendor that was clearly not in a food truck, but instead a picnic table.
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7 comments. Posted on July 28 2008 at 11:06 am
Habana Outpost

Cuban sandwiches are one of those things that always makes me happy. It is really difficult to screw up a cuban because the only thing that can make it bad is if it is overly dry. If you use too much bread or if the pork is insanely dry, then it would not be a good sandwich. Last week I stopped by Habana Outpost in Ft. Greene and I was greeted with an imperfect Cuban Sandwich experience.
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4 comments. Posted on May 3 2008 at 11:56 am
Cake Man Raven is mad delicious

On my way to the Brooklyn Flea last Sunday, I randomly walked by Cake Man Raven. I vacillated between stuffing my face or walk straight to the flea market. Guess which one I picked... First heard about this place three years ago when the Times' Dining Section did a piece on Raven Dennis and he sounded like the perfect fourth uncle that I never had. You know, those terms like 'second-cousin' or 'third-cousin' totally throw me off. Why not just do it in a more simple way? You walk up to your relative, and say, "Yea we tight. (do a secret hand shake)" and based upon how smooth the secret hand shake is, that is how well you know your relative. Right, so I like cake. You like cake. You will like Cake Man Raven.
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11 comments. Posted on April 9 2008 at 3:48 pm
Shirred eggs at Ici

Have you ever had shirred eggs? I walked into Ici last weekend, after taking snow pictures in Ft. Greene, and "shirred eggs with bacon and greens" totally jumped out at me. Who does not like new kinds of food that one has never had? It is like Christmas on a plate, and as a person who does not celebrate xmas, I will take this instead. But shirred eggs are baked eggs, and when the friendly server told me that, I was sold. And boy, that was a great idea because shirred eggs at Ici will rock your knickers off.
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13 comments. Posted on February 27 2008 at 8:48 am
The Smoke Joint

The most perfect day ever started out innocuously enough. Yea, the AFC and NFC Championship games were going to be on TV, but whatever. Hunger called our names and we listened. Originally I wanted to walk over to Carroll Gardens but it was twenty-five degrees outside - not optimal weather for a fifteen minute walk just for eating. For some random reason The Smoke Joint came to mind as something that would be a great way to start the day. Speaking of which, is the first meal of the day always breakfast or is it lunch if you eat it at 2pm? Or is that, "Danny, wake up earlier on the weekends?"
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7 comments. Posted on January 23 2008 at 11:45 am
Slices of heaven at Franny's

About a month ago, Frank Bruni of The New York Times reviewed Franny's of Park Slope, and gave it two stars. Then Ed Levine of Serious Eats backed up Bruni and defended Franny's stars. Well, I had to go see what the fuss was all about since this was so close to home.
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4 comments. Posted on October 7 2007 at 7:15 pm
Atlantic Antic 2007

The Atlantic Antic was yesterday, September 30, 2007. It was a great day to take a stroll and take pictures, so I did just that. Here is your photographic recap of antic 2007 in Brooklyn Heights.
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2 comments. Posted on October 1 2007 at 7:40 pm