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Saving Pie Town: The Last Pie-O-Neers of the American Dessert

As the legend goes, PieTown, New Mexico was founded in the early 1920s by a man called Norman, who had filed a mining claim in the area and opened a general store at the desert crossroads where he liked to bake pies made from scratch and serve them to his family or passing travellers. Word spread about…

The Vintage Menu Collector: 25,000 Restaurants by One Woman

I love reading menus. They are the shop windows of the kitchen and provide a playful sense of gambling for what might just be the best of worst meal of your life. Today I stumbled upon a rather mind-boggling collection on the NYPL Digital archives of thousands of restaurant menus dating as far back as 1851.…

NYC’s Secret Japanese Kitchen

Inside a nondescript Brooklyn building, there’s a door to an imaginary world with beautiful random objects, edible flowers, bicycles … and a secret Japanese restaurant. We’re not talking about just another social dining club and a have-a-go chef, but a seriously gifted host whose level of cooking is being whispered about as a talent which far surpasses anything…

The Free Restaurants of Sikh Temples that serve guests of any Religion or Background

This is a Sikh Temple in San Jose, California. Here, and at any other Sikh place of worship in the world, they serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religion, race, background, gender or social status. The temples are called gurdwara, where Sikhs pay their respect for the teachings and commandments of the Ten Gurus, and in every…

Thug Kitchen: Because Cooking is definitely More Fun with F-Bombs

This is not Martha Stewart cooking. And these are not your average recipes. Today I’d like to share with you a place for individuals who want to cook without the BS– as in without the complicated, pretentious cooking instructions and without all the unhealthy crap we’e used to putting in our body. For example, take these excerpts from the above recipe Late…

Vintage Atkins, Torture Machines and Fat-Shaming: Getting Slim the 1950s Way

Here’s a rather eye-brow raising television clip from 1958 showing various diet and weight loss methods of the day. We learn that Dr. Atkins certainly wasn’t the originator of the ‘fat’ diet as we speak to the doctor behind “Eat Fat, Grow Slim”, and receive various slimming tips courtesy of the British Pathé commentator, such as,…

Meet the most Legendary Pizza Delivery Guy

This guy. It’s not just that he is fifty-two years old, has a mountain man beard, and delivers pizza around Brooklyn on a fixie bike, getting the pies to the door while they’re still hot and fresh. It’s his stories; ones that rarely get an audience making fleeting door to door acquaintances; raw and honest stories waiting to be…

Meet NYC’s Youngest Truffle Dealer

If you’re a self-diagnosed foodie and haven’t yet discovered Munchies, VICE network’s new gastronomic corner of the net, you’re missing out. One of their latest reports follows NYC’s youngest truffle dealer Ian Purkayastha, known for selling the good stuff– wink wink. No really though, it turns out that peddling truffles in New York City is almost as cut…

Diner en Blanc – The Film about the World’s Largest Secret Dinner Party

Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location, set up miles of tables, food and champagne and dine in high spirits until midnight for the annual Diner en Blanc. It all began more than a quarter of a century ago when a group of ten thrill-seeking…

My Bohemian Berlin Brasserie

The owner of Katz Orange (orange cat in German), was inspired by a trip he took to Peru where he met a spiritual priest who owned an orange cat. Upon entering the beautiful brasserie, you can imagine him sitting in this shaman’s mountain hut with an orange cat, surrounded by indigenous artifacts and kilim tapestries passed down from…

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