Archive for the ‘ Food ’ Category
Taking a break from my normal exposition on stats, New York or pizza I’d like to espouse the wonders of baking soda and vinegar! My sink was clogged, not with anything specific, but just years worth of gunk. So after scraping out what I could with my hands and a wire hanger–and wanting to avoid caustic [ READ MORE ]
As mentioned earlier, yesterday was Pi Day so a bunch of statisticians and other such nerds celebrated at the new(ish) Artichoke Basille near the High Line. We had three pies: the signature Artichoke, the Margherita and the Anchovy, which was delicious but only some of us ate. And of course we had our custom cake [ READ MORE ]
Happy Pi Day everybody! I’ll be out celebrating with the rest of the NYC Data Mafia eating pizza and devouring the above Pi Cake, custom baked by Chrissie Cook. Today is also Albert Einstein’s birthday so there are plenty of reasons to have fun. The cake below was my first ever Pi Cake in what is sure [ READ MORE ]
Last Wednesday I made a trip to Di Fara in Midwood, Brooklyn. Since that place is well covered and lauded I won’t talk about the pizza, as amazing as it is. I gave Dom a copy of my thesis (pdf) on NYC pizza and he loved that his place was one of the few pizzerias mentioned by name [ READ MORE ]
After years of waiting a new Artichoke Basilles our dreams have been answered. The new spot, which hasn’t even been updated on the website yet, is at 17th and 10th opened this weekend. Unlike the original location this one has seats and wait service and only sells pies, albeit smaller than the originals. There is a [ READ MORE ]
Last week Slice ran a post about a tomato taste test they conducted with Scott Wiener (of Scott’s NYC Pizza Tours), Brooks Jones, Jason Feirman, Nick Sherman and Roberto Caporuscio from Keste. While the methods used may not be rigorous enough for definitive results, I took the summary data that was in the post and performed [ READ MORE ]
Eye Heart New York has a post with a graph showing the distribution of health code violations and the letter grades they received. Kaiser at Junk Charts takes the original data and makes a few graphs of his own. Based on those visualizations it seems that there is not much difference by borough or by [ READ MORE ]
The New York Times has a couple pieces today about ice cream. The one that really caught my attention (thanks to Pat Kiernan) is on the skyrocketing cost for a scoop of ice cream. I had somehow gotten used to paying three, four or more dollars at places like Cones, L’Arte del Gelato or the Chinatown Ice [ READ MORE ]
Last night I attended Amanda the Foodie’s ice cream crawl which is part of a series of food crawls she organizes. I’m not good at estimating crowd size by sight (give me a few equations then sure) but I’d say 60 to 80 people showed up. She had a break up into groups of 5 [ READ MORE ]
The other day I found myself walking down 7th Avenue South, as is usual, and I decided to pop into Blecker Street Pizza. I haven’t been there in years because of all the other great pizza in the neighborhood like John’s, Keste, Number 28 (which is claimed best by Citysearch), Risotteria (so I’ve heard) and Joe’s. I remember [ READ MORE ]