VG & Suave Slav Hit The Big Apple: Part 3

Miss Part 1 ? Please click here . Miss Part 2 ? Please click here . **Tuesday, August 24th – Morning & Afternoon** Since the weather was actually cooperating on Tuesday morning ( no storms! score! ), Suave Slav and I headed out for a bit of sightseeing and shopping . And when I say sightseeing, I mean a trip down memory lane … This church/New York University-fusion building is located just a few steps from my old dorm. I always love visiting the area and reminiscing , and I appreciate Suave Slav accompanying me for the memory-lane trip as I shouted, ” Oh yeah! I remember this place! And look over there! I used to go there all the time! ” And then a Suave Slav mini photoshoot occurred in front of the church/NYU building We also checked out this art gallery – very cool layout! We then made our way over to Canal Street to shop… little did we know that shops did not open until 11:00am , so we had to stroll around a bit before anything was open. My favorite photo from this excursion is this one… If anyone can pull off that scarf, Suave Slav can . Time flies! …

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DealOn Discount at ChikaLicious

ChikaLicious, located at 204 East 10th Street in New York City, has an amazing “cupcake-ortunity” for you to take advantage of on DealOn. You can get $20 worth of cupcakes for $10 or less! DealOn works by selling items from vendors on their web site for discounted prices. The more people who sign up for the deal, the lower the price becomes. You won’t be charged until the lowest price is achieved! For example, this deal with ChikaLicious started at $10. Right now the price is at $8.52! So, even if you signed up for the deal at $10, you’ll still only be charged the lowest price of $8.52 or LOWER! Everybody wins. How can you go wrong? Check out ChikaLicious at: http://www.dessertclubchikalicious.com/ Read more about DealOn,

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VG & Suave Slav Hit The Big Apple: Part 2

Did you miss Part 1 of this new, exciting series? Then please click here … and then come back to read Part 2! **Monday, August 23rd** After surviving an evening of gory movie-watching ( Centurion , anyone? ) and feeling quite ill ( delayed reaction to the plane turbulance, food-related, who knows ), Suave Slav and I bounced back just in time to start a new day in the city. First up on the agenda ? Brave the pouring rain with my dear friend, Maggie , over to One Lucky Duck for some beverages and an overdue chat session. The next two photos exhibit the significant height difference… as well as the One Lucky Duck product display ! After saying goodbye to Maggie and parting ways, it was time for Suave Slav and I to navigate the city and shop a bit . Unfortunately the only photo I have from shopping trip #1 ( yes, there were more! stay tuned ) is this one: No, I did not end up purchasing the heels . Very cool, but I am not interested in shoes that could double as mass-murder …

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Street Food Profiles: Truckin’ Good Food in Phoenix, Arizona

Jeff in his truck. [ Photographs: The Lucky Shot Photography ] Name: Truckin’ Good Food Twitter: @truckingoodfood Vendor Names: Jeff Kraus I’m drooling over this beignet right now. What’s on the menu? If I like a dish and can make it portable with quality and local/regional ingredients, then it’s on the menu. For the summer: local watermelon and feta, mint and watercress salad and black pepper buttered crepe, eclairs, with roasted banana crème patisserie and Nutella powder, chickpea frites, anchovy and lemon, and old-fashioned ice cream sodas. Location and hours? Changes regularly; see Facebook and Twitter. We also go to farmers’ markets special events, and private parties. A frothy ice cream soda. How long have you been street fooding? Since November 2009 but earned our first money in January 2010. How has Twitter affected business? The twitter culture blows my mind. I’ve had people drive an hour because they heard about Truckin’ Good Food on Twitter. It’s crazy to think that something than contains fewer than 140 characters is so powerful. Why a mobile business over brick-and-mortar? Being mobile allows me to take my food to an environment that I…

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Water Woes, Reflections on Mothering, and Raw Brownies

So, this entire past week our city has had a ‘boil water advisory’.

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VG & Suave Slav Hit The Big Apple: Part 1

As I hinted in my last post and VGTV episode , I took a very special trip for a few days with a very special guest. The place ? New York City. Of course The special guest ? Slava, who is well-known on this blog already as “the dance partner.” Through this blog post series, you will get to know Slava better than as just being “the dance partner,” since he is worthy of a better recognition. By the way, Suave Slav is now his nickname on the blog ( in case you did not figure that out… ) Other special guests ? The VeggieFolks and great, REAL-LIFE FRIENDS ( not random meet-ups ) in the city. Now that the introductory details are taken care of, let us officially kick off the newest blog post series, VG & Suave Slav Hit The Big Apple . **Sunday, August 22nd** At approximately 9:45am, my parents, Slava, and I set off to begin our NYC adventures . We also had to endure a very turbulent, nausea-inducing flight… but otherwise it was a…

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Barbecue Event Roundup: Contests, Cookouts, and Festivals in the United States

[ Photograph: Adam Kuban ] I am on an eternal quest for the next great smoke house, tracking barbecue’s many variations across a scattered landscape of small restaurants handed the burden of preserving culinary history. The United States of Barbecue, however, represents more than just billows of smoke rising from a brick-and-mortar joint. My first trip to Memphis in May taught me that lesson, exposing me to the world of barbecue events, a vast expanse of competitions and festivals rooted in the social aspects of this gastronomic tradition. In its new season, The Learning Channel’s “BBQ Pit Masters” places a heavy focus on the competitive element of barbecue culture. Media coverage tends to focus on the competitive barbecue circuit, where cash prizes and championship narratives sometimes steal the spotlight from the spirit of community that underscores every good cookout. In fact, the sanctioning of competition barbecue, undertaken most prominently by the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) , is a recent development in the history of such gatherings, which— as noted in the diary of George Washington —date back to the birth of our barbecue nation and beyond. The competitive circuit was established not only so pimasters could gather on a smoking battlefield, but …

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Interview: Michael Laiskonis, Executive Pastry Chef at Le Bernardin

This post is brought to you by Ghirardelli Intense Dark Chocolate. Michael Laiskonis is consistently rated as one of the top pastry chefs in the country for his work at the three-Michelin-star-rated Le Bernardin . He also happens to be an incredibly nice guy, and generously took some time out of his insane schedule to answer some of my questions. His other musings on food and life can be found on his blog . You eschewed formal training in favor of learning on the job; what was the thought process there? I’m not sure there was much of a thought process, it’s just the way it all ended up playing out! When I first started cooking, or rather, once I realized that it was a career that I wanted to pursue, I wasn’t in a position to drop everything in order to enroll in a program like that at the CIA. Thus, my culinary path became a sort of “earn while you learn” apprenticeship, under a handful of chefs that I still consider early mentors. Indeed, for a long time, I felt as if I was missing out on something, not having pursued formal training, but I eventually got over it! In a way, I …

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The United States of Pizza: Delaware

From Slice I don’t want to ruffle the feathers of any of you Blue Hens out there, but I’m going to have to say that most people outside Delaware don’t know much about the place. This isn’t the usual NYC provincialism talking here. I’ve lived all over the country, and no matter where I’ve lived before — Massachusetts, Kansas, Oregon — First Staters have managed to stay off the radar of the country at large. Except for Joe Biden — maybe not the kind of attention you want …? No, the state seems to exercise its influence in more subtle ways: It didn’t fire the first shot in the American Revolution, but, as every schoolchild learns, it was the first state to ratify the Constitution. It’s home to a rather large chemical manufacturer whose products you likely use every day without thinking about. And, if you’re like most Americans, you probably grudgingly send a payment there each month. The pizza culture in Delaware seems to follow that MO, too. You never really hear that much about it outside the state, but when you do a little digging, you come up with some nuggets. What follows are the nuggets that Slice–Serious …

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CupcakeCamps are coming to London, Memphis, Kansas City and more places

You can always visit the official CupcakeCamp page to learn about how to host a CupcakeCamp in your town and see which ones are coming up. There are a bunch of them coming up which you can see by clicking above. Here are a few events on the CupcakeCamp horizon: August 28 CupcakeCamp Kansas City September 18 image by Cakespy CupcakeCamp Washington, DC September 25 CupcakeCamp Memphis, Tennessee October 31 CupcakeCamp London (UK)

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