Category Archives: Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants)

The Drink Police, They Work Inside of My School

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Battle afoot, over on Classon Avenue, involving marketers of nutritious, healthy drinks for kids. The NY Post reports: "Kids held a rowdy protest recently at Clara Barton HS in Prospect
Heights, where they have been smuggling soda past Gestapo-like drink
police inside heavy parkas …   Cynthia Vallejo, a Barton
student (said) ‘We believe it is a way to take students’ money and for
Snapple to profit.‘ Under the $40 million deal, which …"

Grammar Gestapo: Read that lead again. How do the drink police fit inside heavy parkas? Sing it, Robin: "The Drink Police, they live inside of my coat…"

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Categories: Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants), Schools

Conch Stew: Cure for Post-Holiday Depression?

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KombitbarrestaurantKris included Kombit in her round-up of Caribbean restaurants that "add brightness" as "New York settles into its gray
season."

"Kombit refers to the Haitian tradition of communal farming and
feasting. The restaurant has the look of upscale dining but the soul of
a family hangout. Kombit’s kitchen coaxes flavor out of root
vegetables, perfumes dishes with whiffs of nutmeg and clove and excels
in fried seafood."

Time for lunch yet?

PS. NewYorkmetro.com has another good write-up of Kombit. Click the picture to go there.

Categories: Flatbush Ave., Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants), Kombit

Best bar to see single girls dance to Madonna with their gay boyfriends

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Headerbodilypleasures"SODA BAR is like those parties people had in their dorm rooms in
college, except with a lot of space. It’s a good old drunken time and a
serious regulars spot. You don’t have to get in your hot-girl tube top.
You can bike over in your ‘drunk neighborhood’ clothes and fit right
in."
[VOICE Best of New York 2004]

Categories: Bars/Nightlife, Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants), Vanderbilt Ave.

Rick's Picks in NYT

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12pick_1NYT profiles Rick Field, PH resident and "41-year-old bachelor with a head of hair that might benefit from its own global positioning system." Rick started his pickling business last Winter (with a partner, Lauren McGrath) after he lost his producer job on "Now With Bill Moyers." They run the pickling business in the LES, out of an artist’s studio on Chrystie St.

"For years he had made a hobby of immersing cucumbers, cauliflower,
string beans and other vegetables in experimental brines infused with
ingredients like rosemary, wasabi or curry. One of the inventions now
in his line is a sliced bread-and-butter pickle called Bee ‘n’ Beez
that derives its sweetness not from sugar but from coconut, dried
cherries and ginger."

Now go see what a $12 jar of pickles tastes like. Here’s his website.

Categories: Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants)

House of Jerk

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Jerk Via Village Voice: Though
the name makes it sound like a National Lampoon movie, H of J is one of
the most formidable Jamaican carryouts in Brooklyn, with a more
complete menu of roots cuisine, including thick sweet cornmeal pudding,
meat and fish cook-ups, and ackee and saltcod. The fish soup is
especially fantastic, with a roster of ingredients that runs to
christophene, taro, potato, and carrot in a fish fumet worthy of
bouillabaisse … a plume
of barbecue smoke, which drifts up Classon, crosses over Fulton, and
heads toward Clinton Hill, betokening jerk chicken well coated with
spices. 1060 Fulton; 718-623-5499

Categories: Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants), Fulton St.