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Shoppers in sleek pea coats and puffy winter bombers take turns spooning the crunchy salt crystals out of the bowls and into their palms. A little girl in a Santa red scarf opens her mouth to taste the salt sprinkles as if she’s catching translucent snowflakes on her tongue on this chilly late November afternoon... Continue Reading →
The pale yellow Van Leeuwen ice cream truck, nick-named “the Eagle,” sat parked across from the Apple Store in Soho with a vanilla cone painted on every side. A line quickly formed and a parade of ice cream cones hit the streets of Manhattan. Someone from Whole Foods approached the truck. “They were like, ‘This... Continue Reading →
The long blade of a knife pierces through pink skin and slices along the spine. A woman pulls out a hacksaw and hunches over the body, sawing away at the bone. She digs her fingers under the rib cage and yanks it upwards with a loud crack. There is a hog carcass on the table... Continue Reading →
Tangy kimchi. Fatty bone marrow. Smokey hot dogs. Musky pumpkin. These are not your typical chili ingredients but these are some of the flavors simmered into the 26 different chilis at Brooklyn’s Chili Takedown. At this homemade chili cook-off for amateur chefs, brainchild of Matt Timms, anything goes. Timms flickers around the place making sure... Continue Reading →
JACKIE CUCCO 