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First Aired - 09/01/2010 06:00PM
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This week on Brooklyn Eats spirit expert Robert Simonson relays his past few months spent researching articles on The NY Egg Cream for Edible Brooklyn & Manhattan. Learn the various conflicting stories regarding the birth of the egg cream (long-lost familial secret? European misunderstanding?) and hear the science and art behind the egg cream's most important component: seltzer (NOT club soda). Plus, how did Fox's U-Bet become the undisputed king of Egg Cream syrups? This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one-stop Mac superstore.
Photo: Yonah Shimmel Egg Creams via Edible Manhattan
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The Return of The Egg Cream (19:22)
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Ron Starman, third generation seltzer man, installing seltzer systems, seltzer addict, Ron Starman likes to play golf and is very hard to get on the phone, Fort Defiance's satate of the art seltzer system, with seltzer this good it is your obligation to make egg creams, super cooled water is best for carbonating, The New Monitor, fizzy and refreshing, Brooklyn Naval Yards, U-Bet, taste-testing chocolate syrups, tastes processed, David Fox, Kelly Fox, there were many syrup purveyors back in the day, business shenanigans, the Fox syrup monopoly, egg cream conspiracy theory, Ray Alverez, diamond blue raspberry, Brooklyn Pharmacy uses Brooklyn-made natural syrups, there were mobile egg cream carts all over the city, your very first egg cream, Tom's old-school egg cream, make the best egg cream you can, egg cream mustache, drinking from a bowl, New York Times, writing about booze,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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On the very first episode of Edible Brooklyn Radio, Rachel Wharton & Brian Halweil talk about the tradition of Jews eating Chinese Food on Christmas.
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Edible Brooklyn Radio Introduction: Jews, Chinese Food & Christmas (15:00)
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Rachel Wharton, Edible Brooklyn Radio, Fairway Market, Jews, Chinese food, Christmas, Brian Halweil, Edible Manhattan, Edible Brooklyn, Time Out Magazine, Village Voice, Rachel Blackwell, why is there such a long relationship between Jews and Chinese food on Christmas?, it makes Jews feel cosmopolitan, they can pretend it was kosher, because Chinese cuisine rarely has dairy, moo shu pork, Chinese food restaurants are open on Christmas, Buddhism, there is no indication of Christmas in the restaurants, Orthodox Jews sometimes eat pork, kosher cooking, Judaism is filled with exemptions, New York Jews, Peking duck, The Christmas Story, nobody can escape from Christmas, Christmas is a joke holiday, Pagan traditions, Chinatown, intensifying commercialism, Lazy Susan, smoked fish, Lox, Sable, Herring,Holiday Traditions: Cooking At Home or Eating Out (18:00)
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Fairway Market, cooking at home, eating out, Brazilian food, coquito, coqui, restaurant holiday menus, tradition, Thanksgiving at Tavern On The Green, farmers markets, the age of foodism, new food experiences, people want every event to be centered on food, the idea of sitting at home seem inferior, pork belly, elaborate presentation, the process of cooking becomes the backbone of the holiday, lamb shank, boiled eggs, outsourcing holiday meals, Pork For Passover, lefover matza balls boiled in bacon fat, Chinese food, Cantonese food, southern Chinese food, Dong Bai, Szechuan, James Joyce, Chinatown remains an exotic destination, culture shock, Peking Duck House, Pings, East Harbor, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Hong Kong Cantonese style restaurants,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/08/2010 06:00PM
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This week on Brooklyn Eats Rachel explore that sacred institution of urban nightlife: the dive bar. Joining Rachel are food writer Joshua M. Bernstein and Matt Levy, progeny of the Levys that run the famous Levy's Unique New York tours. The gang relay a great deal of booze-soaked anecdotes regarding their time spent in dives; partial nudity, $3 drinks, bikers, drugs, scuzz, and various musty funks are all involved to some degree. This episode was sponsored by Roberta's.
Photo: Inside Park Slope's Lucky 13 Bar
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Dive In! (16:26)
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Rachael Wharton, Edible Brooklyn, Edible Manhattan, heritageradionetwork.com, Whole Foods, homebrew competition, dive bars in Brooklyn, Joshua M. Bernstein, Belview Bar, dirt-cheap drinks make a dive bar a dive bar, miscreants and misanthropes, can a dive bar have craft beer?, Matt Levy, Levy's Unique New York, cast of characters is essential, The Commodore, talking to bartenders, a dive bar should be scary, people talk in dive bars, Brooklyn versus Manhattan, Port Authority is so scuzzy, Port 41, Holland Bar, a place of transiency, Freddy's Dive Bar, Starlight Lounge, the oldest black-owned gay-friendly bar, Frank's Lounge on Fulton, good bathroom stories, Junior and Son, ice in the urinal, O'Connor's on 5th Avenue, musty funk, Maximilian Bells, a Jamaican dive bar, Imperial Biker Bar, biker bars, O.P. and Milk, mamajuana, s,Duff, Rudys,The Mystique of Dive Bars (11:36)
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the fabric of this fine borough, dive bars, levysuniqueny.com, mygutinstinct.wordpress.com, Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, Brooklyn Naval Yards, flushing avenue, 3 dollar drinks, Park Slope dive bars, Tim Booze, nips, Jackie's 5th Amendment, Lucky 13, karate dojo turned horror-themed heavy metal dive bar, Smolen, leave feeling good about the planet, Wicked Monk in Bayridge, The Grassroots Tavern on St. Marks, The Holiday Cocktail Lounge, Hank's Saloon jacked their prices, Frank McCourt, Farrell's, 32 oz. Styrofoam containers, drinks to go,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
