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Friday
Jul302010

flea at laff #7: mile end/crop to cup.

snack: the ruth wilensky
drink: large iced coffee

oh brooklyn flea! how i've (sort of) missed you! what's it been, like a month or so since we last played? i'm truly sorry. i've been slightly broke & slightly busy recently & visiting you just hasn't been in the cards. plus, after a bunch of visits to you this summer, i've determined that for me, you don't have that much to offer other than the food. no, i'm not interested in a bunch of plastic, marquee-sized letters. i think i'm all set with that sparkly prom dress as well. ditto for 75% of the other non-food items you have for sale. as much as i try to tell myself that some end table or old-timey soda shop sign is going to one day catch my eye & come home with me, i'm only kidding myself...it's mostly just junk.

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Thursday
Jun242010

flea at laff #6: porchetta/brooklyn soda works.

snack: porchetta sandwich
drink: grapefruit, jalapeno & honey soda

it's official. the summer's here. i know so not because of that solstice thing that happened back on monday but because of something i noticed at the brooklyn flea this past saturday, that definitive, annual sign that the summer has arrived...there are hottie-type ladies out EVERYWHERE!...like ALL OVER DA PLACE! i don't know where they've been hiding all winter & at this point, i don't really care. it's pretty much my favoritest time of the year, the time when sweaters & long sleeves & stupid stupid UGGS give way to skin & sundresses & tank tops. ladies...thank you for looking so undeniably fetching this past weekend. i appreciate it. when i met my bro there in the early afternoon, there you were in all your glory...the beautiful, sundress-clad women of the BK. on the outside, i tried not to stare too much, but on the inside, i was all like "DAY-YAM! SWEET TATS YO!"

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Friday
Jun042010

flea at laff #4: the good fork.

snack: meatloaf sandwich
drink: d&g jamaican ginger beer

oh brooklyn flea. would it kill you to learn about the concept of turnover? this past weekend i made my fourth trip this season to the flea & let me tell ya, it gets sadder every week. see that bitchin guitar up above? i first mentioned that guitar back in back in late april & every week for the past month, i've gone back & it's been sitting there on that table, just waiting to be bought by the reincarnation of ronnie james dio. i tell you what...i believe the ouija board behind it is a relatively late addition & if it's still there mid-month, i'm going to go all tawny kitaen, buy it, summon the ghost of dio & get that guitar bought quicklike. you just wait! summer taunt-the-guitar-shredding ghost party at my place!

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Monday
Nov092009

nosh nook #171 - monday, november 9, 2009

'save the deli: in search of perfect pastrami, crusty rye, and the heart of jewish delicatessen' by david sax (link)
11.8.09 - l.a. times - by rich cohen

other than one time a few years back, i've never been into any of the famous jewish delis here in nyc. that one time was when a couple of friends came to the city to visit & we spent most of the weekend walking around the city drinking & stopping for food when necessary. one of those stops was at katz's, a landmark deli in downtown nyc. if my memory serves me correctly, both friends got the pastrami on rye, a sandwich of extraordinary magnitude priced somewhere around $15. i passed, as that's far too much $ and meaty sandwich for my tastes.

katz's is all famous & has been around for forever, but according to david sax's book on jewish delis, "save the deli: in search of the perfect pastrami, crusty rye, and the heart of the jewish delicatessen," it isn't the best jewish deli in the country. that honor goes to junior's (in l.a.). sax's book, which came out last month, has been getting quite a bit of press lately. npr, the ny times..."respectable" stuff. yesterday, the l.a. times' rich cohen decided to take a look at the book, which details sax's cross-continent study of jewish delis, their history & their traditions. for the most part, cohen seemed to enjoy the book & even referred to it as "deeply satisfying" at one point.

i asked this one friend of mine who's totally jewish & he insured me that jewish delis are a pretty big thing. "institutions" he called them. they've got tender, smoked meats that people go wild for, but as the times notes, sax found that they're sort of in decline. rent & meat prices are rising & lack of interest in jewish culinary tradition is waning. as a famous jew once said, "the times, they are a changin." from cohen's review the book sounds like an interesting read, "organized by region, each section opening with a quick history of the local jews, a kind of encyclopedia entry that has the not unpleasant effect of attaching the story of the hebrews to the story of their delis." so yeah, if you're into food & culture & reading about LOTS of smoked, tender meats, it sounds like this book is right up your alley.

Tuesday
Oct272009

nosh nook #162 - tuesday, october 27, 2009

cheesecakes vs cheese steaks (link)
10.26.09 - the ny times - by jennifer 8. lee

woo hoo! game one of the world series is tomorrow night! championship yeah! are you friggin pumped, philly? i wasn't on your side for any of those NBA conference finals back in the 80s, but i'm on your side this time! that's because you're taking on the yankees & those douche nozzles are my sworn enemies so i'm supporting you! their douchiness is your gain, phillies! fyi, it's the world series, so you need to use a bounty of exclamation points or you won't be taken seriously as a sports journalist! steve phillips, for instance, didn't use enough exclamation points. ha!

so yeah, go phillies. win your senators some cheesecake. according to the ny times, "if the yankees win the world series, new york senators charles e. schumer and kirsten e. gillibrand will get a supply of philly cheese steaks. if the phillies win, pennsylvania senators arlen specter and bob casey will win a supply of junior’s cheesecakes." maybe if the phillies win, junior's will throw in a free mouse for the PA senators! senator specter feeds on baby mice anyhow. well, at least he does if he still has room after eating a 543 calorie, 37g of fat slice of junior's cheesecake. surprisingly, that's actually less than his state's cheese steak, which has 690 calories & 29g of fat.

as the times points out, the best part about the whole world series wager is that senator gillibrand "was just railing against obesity monday morning at a rachael ray event." maybe it's just a friendly wager & we shouldn't look into it that much, but maybe gillibrand's PR people should coordinate her messages better? if they did, glen caplin (her chief spokesman) wouldn't have to call back the times & utter the words, "the senator believes in everything in moderation, except winning world series titles." um, nice save glen but GO PHILLY! BACK 2 BACK!